At the end of this week, the wind temperature at the top of Mount Washington in the US state of New Hampshire dropped to minus 42 degrees Celsius (108 degrees Fahrenheit). According to meteorologists and climatologists, this is probably the coldest temperature recorded in US history, writes the Washington Post..

Video footage recorded by the nonprofit Mount Washington Observatory shows how extreme cold and high winds of over 100 mph from an Arctic airburst made the top of the highest peak in the northeast look like another planet. In fact, according to NASA, the spooky scene atop Mount Washington this week was almost like being on Mars..

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Temperature record set in 1963 broken on Friday. Temperatures are expected to drop even lower overnight. A meteorologist who pleaded with hikers to stay off the trails on Saturday warned that such strong winds would cause frostbite on exposed skin in less than a minute..

“From some of my observations, there were tiny gaps in my mittens, and the place that was open to the wind looked like a bee was continuously stinging my hand,” Tarasevich said..

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Meteorologists and experts across the country were amazed by the record cold snap. Mount Washington was thrown into the stratosphere Friday night by a southward-moving polar vortex lobe.. As the atmosphere cools, it becomes more compressed, meaning that the boundary separating its two lowest layers, the troposphere and stratosphere, known as the tropopause, will drop at altitude..