Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Traverse
- When
- January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 2, 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Traverse forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 45.772, -96.472 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Extreme Cold in Minnesota, January 1 to 2, 2022
An Arctic airmass persisted across the Northern Plains from the morning of the 1st through the morning of the 2nd, having started in late December the previous calendar year (see the December 2021 Storm Data entry for additional details). Under dominant high pressure, very cold wind chills persisted during this period across west central Minnesota, with only slight improvements in conditions…
Where it happened
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- Cold
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 ABR wrote it up.
An Arctic airmass persisted across the Northern Plains from the morning of the 1st through the morning of the 2nd, having started in late December the previous calendar year (see the December 2021 Storm Data entry for additional details). Under dominant high pressure, very cold wind chills persisted during this period across west central Minnesota, with only slight improvements in conditions during the daytime on the 1st. Some of the coldest recorded wind chill readings include -40 degrees F 2 miles NNW of Big Stone Colony and -38 F 3 miles WSW of Wheaton.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Big Stone
- When
- January 1, 12:00 AM CST to 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Big Stone forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 45.426, -96.411 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
- Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, January 1 to 2, 2022
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, January 1, 2022
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kentucky, January 1, 2022
- Drought in Oklahoma, January 1 to 31, 2022
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, January 1 to 2, 2022
- Drought in Texas, January 1 to 31, 2022
- Drought in New Mexico, January 1 to 31, 2022
- Drought in California, January 1 to 31, 2022
More
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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: 1002562, 1002564.