Extreme Cold/Wind Chill — Olmsted, Minnesota
January 29, 2019 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
In Rochester, one person died from hypothermia after being stranded outside a house during the morning of January 30th. The automated weather observing equipment at the Rochester airport recorded a low temperature of 29 below zero with wind chills as low as 60 below zero.||Wind chills of 35 to 60 below zero were common across Olmsted County from the afternoon of January 29th into the morning of the 31st. The coldest wind chill to occur was 62 below zero at a mesonet station near Stewartville. In Rochester, plans were put in place to use the city buses as a mobile warming shelter but many of the buses could not operate when the diesel fuel gelled after about 3 hours of service in the cold weather. A pipe burst in a furniture store flooding around 3 thousand square feet and destroying numero
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.