Extreme Cold/Wind Chill — Cuyahoga, 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 Cleveland Hopkins Airport reached -3F on January 30 and -2F on January 31. Low temperatures at Burke Lakefront Airport reached -2F on January 30 and -2F 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 Cleveland Hopkins and Burke Lakefront Airports, wind chills reached -25F for a period on January 30. The lowest wind chill recorded during the event at Cleveland Hopkins Airport was -29F and at Burke Lakefront Airport it was -30F, both during the late morning hours of the 30th. All area schools
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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.