Extreme Cold/Wind Chill — Lorain, Ohio
January 30, 2019 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Extremely cold weather settled over the area on January 30 and 31, bringing the coldest temperatures that the region had seen in four or five years. Low temperatures at Lorain County Airport reached -6F on January 30 and -4F on January 31. With winds gusting to 30 - 35 mph, wind chills across the county dropped below zero midday on January 29 and did not recover to above zero until late on January 31. At Lorain County Airport, wind chills reached -25F for a period on January 30 and the lowest wind chill recorded during the event was -32F during the late morning hours of the 30th. All area schools were closed on January 30 and 31 due to the extreme cold. One death occurred in the county due to the extreme cold. One homeless woman died from hyopthermia in a vacant home in Lorain.
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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.