Cold/Wind Chill in Prairie, Montana

Cold/Wind Chill December 21, 2022 – December 23, 2022 · Prairie, Montana

What the National Weather Service wrote

For multiple sites across Prairie County, temperatures in the teens and 20s below zero and breezy winds created intermittent periods of wind chills of -40 or worse from the morning of the 21st into the morning of the 23rd. The peak wind chill of -57 was recorded at 5:08 PM on the 21st at the Big Sheep Mountain RAWS site (LCFM8).

The wider storm

An Arctic Air Mass brought the coldest temperatures that northeast Montana has seen in 3 years. Wind chills with this cold air outbreak measured lower than -60 degrees in places.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1067003. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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