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NWS: Today’s Cold Weather is ‘Good Practice’ for Next Week’s Arctic Burst of Temps Not Felt in 20 Years

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By Jesse Wood

Jan. 3, 2013. As the National Weather Service’s Blacksburg, Va., office posted on its Facebook page Friday morning, today’s single-digit temperatures are “good practice” for the even colder weather that is expected to arrive early next week. 

Forecasters are predicting that subzero temperatures are a possibility and that the weather will be the coldest since an “arctic outbreak” that happened Jan. 1994. The best-case scenario is “extremely cold.” 

For Ray’s Weather Center’s, click here

For the NWS seven-day forecast, click here

For safety tips during this cold weather, click here