GRAND FORKS — Hazardous wind chills — possibly reaching minus-40 degrees — are descending on eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota.

Beginning Friday, Dec. 12, and lasting through Sunday morning, expect "hazardous wind chills to overspread the region," the National Weather Service said in a release distributed to the media Friday morning.

Sustained winds of 20 to 25 mph will gust into the range of 40 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

"An arctic air mass, along with breezy northwest winds, will bring dangerously cold wind chills into the region through Sunday," the NWS said in its statement. "Wind chills Saturday and Sunday mornings could fall as low as minus-40F."

There is a 20% chance of widespread extreme cold warning criteria being met, the NWS said. While temper

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