“Everyone’s extreme is a different level,” said Ketzel Levens, a meteorologist in the Weather Service’s office in Duluth, Minn., where the average daily temperature in January is a crisp 9.4 degrees.
“Folks up north might have better protection.
They might have a lot more clothes and layers.
Our houses, our water infrastructure, they’re built to a different standard.”And so if you warned Minnesotans every time it is merely freezing cold, you would struggle to get their attention when it was dangerously cold.
Ms. Levens’s office issues a wind chill advisory only when the temperature reaches minus 25, and a wind chill warning when it reaches 40 below.
Persons:
”, Ketzel Levens, Minnesotans
Organizations:
National Weather Service, Centers for Disease Control
Locations:
United States, Duluth, Minn