Flash Freeze DME

A dispatcher with Butler County Emergency Services said the center has received 16 calls for vehicle crashes since midnight, and several for trees and wires down, which have mainly been reported on side streets.

This comes as a cold front is currently passing through western Pennsylvania, leaving people in Butler County with "steady and frigid“ temperatures that will sustain until Christmas.

Lee Hendricks, a meteorologist with National Weather Service Pittsburgh, said temperatures Friday will hover in the low single digits, and the winds and gusts of up to 45 miles per hour will make temperatures feel like there are 26 degrees below zero.

“What causes this is we had a cold front pass; a very intense, low pressure system,” Hendricks said. “This storm system, the center is still in eastern Canada, and the cold front is gradually rotating through. It's so cold right now that really the chance of snow we're getting, it's going to be so dry we're not going to get a good deal of it.”

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