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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.
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 ...
Here are the records for inaugural weather since 1937, the first January Inauguration Day, according to the National Weather Service: Warmest: 1981. Reagan's first inauguration.
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The last time Miami went under 50 was Jan. 31 when it dipped to 49, according to meteorologist Will Redman of the National Weather Service in Miami. The coldest day of the year, so far, was Jan ...
The storm's central barometric pressure would have to plummet 0.71 of an inch of mercury (24 millibars) or more in 24 hours or less, most likely from Sunday morning to Monday morning, with a track ...
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...