Record-breaking wind chill hits New Hampshire’s Mount Washington | USA TODAY

The wind chill on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, dropped to minus 108 F, which is likely the lowest ever recorded in the country.
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Bitter cold dropped temperatures to record breaking lows in the Northeast on Friday.

The wind chill — what the temperature feels like — on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, dropped to minus 108 F.

That's likely the lowest wind chill ever recorded in the United States since meteorologists began calculating wind chills, said Brian Brettschneider, an Alaskan climate scientist.

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