Bitter temps and high winds sweep US Northeast

CONCORD, New Hampshire - Falling temperatures replaced the weekend's falling snow on Monday as bitter cold and gusty winds swept across the eastern United States.

The National Weather Service had forecast that temperatures would be more than 6 C below normal across the Northeast, with wind gusts up to 48 km/h and wind chills approaching -40 C in northern New York and Vermont.

Atop the Northeast's highest mountain, the temperature fell to-31 C on Monday morning and dropped to -35 C later in the afternoon, according to the Facebook page for the Mount Washington Observatory, in New Hampshire. Wind chills were hovering around -62 C.