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National Weather Service 500 millibar height contour map from January 17, 1982. "Cold Sunday" was a meteorological event which took place on January 17, 1982, when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada and plunged temperatures across much of the United States far below existing all-time record lows.
"Siberian Express" was the nickname coined by a meteorologist to describe the January 17, 1982 cold wave event hitting much of the United States. [1] Also called "Cold Sunday", the event broke many all-time record lows. Paleoclimatologist Jack A. Wolfe published in 1992 about the geographic origin.
An intense blast of cold air shattered records in the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average. The bitter cold is pushing into the South and East to end ...
Sunrise Semester and Captain Kangaroo both left the weekday schedule on CBS on October 1, 1982. Captain Kangaroo moved to Saturday and Sunday mornings and reverted to a one-hour format. Texas and The Doctors both ended their runs on NBC on December 31, 1982.
In 1982, Virginian-Pilot publisher and Landmark Communications executive Frank Batten bet big that people around the country wanted — needed — weather news around the clock. He was right.
We were watching for Harold Taft of KXAS/Channel 5, the “World’s Greatest Weatherman. ... Since 1955 and the Cold War era of missile defense, the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) has ...
January 1982 cold air outbreak – January 1982 was very cold. The 1981 AFC Championship Game, held in Cincinnati, was nicknamed the "Freezer Bowl" due to the −9 °F (−22.8 °C) temperature at kickoff and −59 °F (−50.6 °C) wind chill. The Sunday of the following week (January 17, 1982) is also known as Cold Sunday. Chicago's Midway ...
NBC4 Los Angeles announced Wednesday that weatherman Fritz Coleman is retiring after 39 years. His last day will be next Friday, June 26.In a sendoff post, the network praised Coleman’s near ...