Bitter cold stretches in the Northland are not uncommon. We\u2019re in the midst of one now. As of Wednesday, January 28th, we are on our 12th day in a row seeing temperatures below zero. It does look like we\u2019ll see at least two more days; our record stretch happened only 12 years ago. We are currently sitting at the 68th coldest January on record.<\/p>\n
JANUARY- FEBRUARY 2014<\/p>\n
Duluth experienced 23 straight days below zero, breaking the previous recordThe cold streak started January 20 and ended February 11, 2014The 2013-2014 winter had 65 days below zero at the Duluth airport<\/p>\n
Duluth set a new record with 23 consecutive days of sub-zero temperatures, ending February 11, 2014, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
The streak began around January 20 and was driven by a southward polar vortex, keeping temperatures below 0 degrees Fahrenheit each day. This broke the previous record of 22 days, which was set in 1936 and matched in 1963.<\/p>\n
December 2013 was Duluth\u2019s eighth coldest on record, and January 2014 ranked as the 18th coldest. The 2013-2014 winter also saw 65 total days below zero at the Duluth airport, surpassing the 1958-1959 record of 59 days.<\/p>\n
The record-breaking cold ended on February 11, 2014, marking a historic winter for Duluth.<\/p>\n
Top 10 Coldest\u00a0January
\u00a0(Average Temperature):
Rank\u00a0 Value\u00a0 Year
\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0-7.2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01912
\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0-3.2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01982
\u00a0 3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 -2.7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 1875
\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 -2.6\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 1929
\u00a0 5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0-2.1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 1994
\u00a0 6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 -1.9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 1885
\u00a0 7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 -1.2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 1966
\u00a0 8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 -0.1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01977
\u00a0 9\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 0.2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 1972
\u00a0\u00a010\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0.5\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 1979<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bitter cold stretches in the Northland are not uncommon. We\u2019re in the midst of one now. As of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-436430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}