Cold/Wind Chill in Northern Valley, Montana

Cold/Wind Chill January 1, 2022 · Northern Valley, Montana

What the National Weather Service wrote

At the Bluff Creek RAWS site (BLUM8), temperatures in the 30s below zero and breezy winds created a brief period of wind chills of -40 or worse on the morning of January 1st. The peak wind chill of -40 was recorded between 6:44 AM and 7:44 AM.

The wider storm

The week-long arctic cold spell from the end of December 2021 spilled over into the first day of 2022, with continued well below zero temperatures and pockets of light winds, which created dangerously cold wind chill values for many northeast Montana locations.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1003094. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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