{"id":92640,"date":"2026-01-21T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92640\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:07:15","slug":"lehigh-valley-temperature-hits-minus-9-ties-record-for-2nd-coldest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92640\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley temperature hits minus 9, ties record for 2nd-coldest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stubborn ice clung to windshields, sidewalks and driveways as Lehigh Valley residents awoke Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service<\/a> says the preliminary low temperature dipped to minus 9 degrees at its Lehigh Valley International Airport climate station.<\/p>\n

That ties for second-coldest, alongside lows recorded on Jan. 21 in 1985 and 1961, the weather service says. <\/p>\n

The record low for the date is minus 15, set in 1994.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s record lows below were all set during the historic cold wave in 1985 or 1994,\u201d the weather service posted Wednesday to social media.<\/p>\n

The low of minus 15 set Jan. 21, 1994, is the Lehigh Valley\u2019s coldest-ever temperature in records since Jan. 1, 1939, at the airport, the weather service says. <\/p>\n

The weather service forecasted bitterly cold conditions to continue through Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cArctic high pressure is currently centered over the Mid-Atlantic,\u201d the weather service said in a forecast discussion. \u201cSkies are clear and winds are nearly calm across the entire area. The result has been ideal conditions for radiational cooling.\u201d<\/p>\n

A return to more seasonal temperatures is expected during the day Wednesday and Thursday before temperatures plummet again, ahead of a potential major snowstorm<\/a> this weekend. <\/p>\n

Current weather radar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stubborn ice clung to windshields, sidewalks and driveways as Lehigh Valley residents awoke Wednesday. The National Weather Service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-92640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}