East Coast Cities Plunge to Record-Low Temperatures

If residents of the Northeast step outside, they'll know it's damnably cold. But if you need to hear it from an official source, the National Weather Service is reporting that Tuesday's spittle-solidifying frostiness brought with it "[q]uite a number of record low temperatures."

In Baltimore, the mercury dropped so fiercely it smashed a record set in 1873 – farewell 5 degrees, 4 degrees is the new all-time low to beat for the month of March. Polar conditions also reigned at Dulles airport near Washington, D.C., where a morning temperature of 1 degree below zero tied with a monthly record set on March 15, 1993. Don't worry, insane practitioners of extreme-winter jogging: The temperatures in the D.C. region today are expected to stay about 20 degrees below average.