Arctic blast hitting much of the eastern US with freezing temps and gusty winds

A massive swath of the country is facing RealFeel temperatures below freezing from Dec. 4-5.

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00:00The cold air is going to be a big story here, too.

00:02Yeah, I mean, there's something to support all of that snow, right?

00:05And we're dropping down to the 20s, 30s here, just wide view across the board from the Ohio

00:10Valley, Detroit, you're at 33, to the coast, Boston, you're down to 34, New York, 39.

00:15So that's where we're currently sitting.

00:17We're going to continue to fall here, of course, as we head into the night.

00:21And really, it's hop aboard the Polar Express way, at least through Friday, where we're going

00:28to be experiencing some pretty, pretty chilly air.

00:30This is going to be a direct blast of Arctic air, dropping us about 10 or 20 degrees below

00:35historical averages.

00:37That's closer to January temperatures.

00:39Frigid here Wednesday morning.

00:42Waking up, you have to also take note, of course, this number, because this is what

00:46it's going to feel like heading out the door.

00:48You can see some of these heavier bands of snow moving through, like this video in

00:54Middlesmith Township, Pennsylvania.

00:56This was taken earlier today.

00:57So quick changes there.

01:00It's going to be cold across the interior Northeast Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, even closer

01:04towards the coast.

01:05You're running about 20 to 30 with your accurate, the real field temperatures.

01:09Highs, though, we're going to be dropping even further here Thursday, back up Friday

01:14on 30.

01:15You'll even see some of those cooler blasts of air by Friday there along the coast, that

01:21I-95 corridor.

01:22It is going to be quite windy, though.

01:24Those gusts still gusting between 30 to 50 miles per hour.

01:28That AccuWeather local storm max, though, holds at 65 miles per hour, and we're covering

01:34a lot of real estate here.

01:35This goes through Wednesday.

01:38Then we're concerned about that deep freeze here Thursday, where temperatures plummet.

01:43It is still going to be quite chilly.

01:44You can even notice back across the upper Midwest, the Great Lakes, we're dropping

01:49below zero.

01:50That was the mark I was tracking here earlier when choosing this mark.

01:54It is going to be a rough, nasty day out there.