Cold turkey! Minus 26 atop Mount Washington for Thanksgiving

Bitter coldThey shattered the previous cold record by 15°F !

Amazing what global warming can do! 

PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. – It’s downright cold atop Mount Washington, home to some of the most brutal weather in the Northeast.

The Mount Washington Observatory says it plunged to minus 26 on Thursday morning. The observatory says that broke its daily record low of minus 11.

It also broke the lowest temperature it has seen in November. The old record was minus 20 on Nov. 30, 1958.

The observatory says winds over hurricane force – that’s 74 mph or higher – had wind chills in the range of minus 70 to minus 75.