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Arctic air that descended into the northeast on Saturday brought dangerously low temperatures below zero and cold winds to the region, including a record cold of minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 78 C) on top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the US magazine said. Time".

The previous negative temperature record for the US was minus 76 degrees and was measured in Alaska.

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Temperatures got so cold that authorities in Massachusetts took the unusual step of keeping the South Station Transit Center open overnight so homeless people would have a safe place to stay.

Several cities in the Northeast set or repeated record low temperatures for the day, while strong winds toppled a tree branch onto a car in western Massachusetts, killing a baby.

Arctic air reached the region just as a rapid cyclogenesis* developed over the Labrador Peninsula and Newfoundland, bringing strong winds, said meteorologist Donald Dumont of the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, explaining the temperature drop.

*Cyclogenesis means the intensification of a cyclone or low pressure storm system

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