Here's what the new terms mean. In 2024, the National Weather Service made the following changes to wind chill watches, warnings and advisory: Wind chill watches were renamed to extreme cold watch.
The National Weather Service has issued its first Cold Weather Advisory for the region.If the alert sounds new, that's because it is.The new alerts were announced in October in an effort to ...
A wind chill watch, wind chill warning and wind chill advisory no longer exist as of Oct. 1, 2024. The criteria has been consolidated to fall into three other categories: extreme cold watch, extreme ...