When a severe cold comes along, we are safest when we know the most up to date information about hypothermia and frostbite. Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Frostbite can damage exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes and cause lifelong, permanent damage to your body. Here's how to recognize its signs.

The National Weather Service issued a cold weather advisory for the Philadelphia area and warned of hypothermia and frostbite.

Coats, gloves, boots, and everything else we need to combat winter cold help keep you warm in the cold, but sometimes bitter, frigid conditions arrive and you need to take warning.

The National Weather Service warned the Citizen Times that extremely low wind chill values could lead to frostbite, hypothermia.

Once wind chill values reach -20°, it only takes 30 minutes or less for frostbite to set in. Surprisingly, humidity does not affect the overall wind chill enough to be considered a factor, but if skin or clothing become wet it can shorten the time to frostbite considerably.

The National Weather Service has updated its Winter Weather Alerts, effective since October 2024.The changes include renaming Wind Chill Advisory to a Cold Wea

A pedestrian, bundled up with a hat, scarf, gloves, hoodie and a coat, crosses Webster Street in Bethlehem as extreme cold weather settles on the Lehigh Valley, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com

The coldest air that we’ve felt in six years has Michigan in its icy grips today. The cold blast originating in northern Siberia is going to stick with us into Wednesday - rivaling the last deep freeze of this type we felt in 2019 when the Polar Vortex dipped down to send our temps plummeting.

An updated cold weather advisory was issued by the National Weather Service on Wednesday at 3:17 a.m. in effect until 10 a.m. for Berkshire County.

Frostbite-triggering cold descended on the New York City area a day ago and worsened early Wednesday, bringing some of the coldest temperatures in years as parts of the region awoke to sub-zero temperatures.

The National Weather Service has warned that bitterly cold wind chills could result in hypothermia or frostbite.