Name: Extreme Cold in California, June 4 to 6, 2022
Start: 2022-06-04T00:00
End: 2022-06-06T08:00
Location: California

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 4
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.

Climbing conditions were dangerous on Mount Shasta beginning June 4th and continuing through June 5th. It was windy and icy on the mountain during that interval. Three climbers were removed from the mountain at 06/0839 PDT. Two of them were injured and one died. Two more injured climbers were rescued on the afternoon of the 6th.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 1:42 PM PST, 10 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:42 PM PST, 10 hours 18 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, South Central Siskiyou County

When: June 4, 12:00 AM PST to June 6, 8:00 AM PST
Where: South Central Siskiyou County forecast zone
Deaths: 0 direct, 1 indirect
Injuries: 0 direct, 4 indirect
Reported by: Local Official
Coordinates: 41.593, -122.540 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Climbing conditions were dangerous on Mount Shasta beginning June 4th and continuing through June 5th. It was windy and icy on the mountain during that interval. Three climbers were removed from the mountain at 06/0839 PDT. Two of them were injured and one died. Two more injured climbers were rescued on the afternoon of the 6th.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, South Central Siskiyou County	2022-06-04	32	Female	Outside/Open Areas	Indirect

What these are

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill: Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in California in 2022 Every state in 2022 This day in weather history Warnings in California, June 2022

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1019239.