Winds pushed snow
“dunes” across an open plain in northern New York on Friday, February 3, as a local
weather station measured windchills below -40 degrees Fahrenheit in the region.The National Weather Service (
NWS) issued a
windchill warning and a
hazardous weather outlook in the area and
said dangerously cold windchills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as five minutes.Timelapse
footage captured by the
NYS Mesonet, a real-time weather station, shows snow “dunes” moving across a field in Malone, New York. Credit:
NYS Mesonet via Storyful