Extreme Cold/Wind Chill in Yuma County, Colorado

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill December 21, 2022 – December 23, 2022 · Yuma County, Colorado

What the National Weather Service wrote

Wind chills of -25F to -47F were reported across the county.

Key impacts: wind chill, frostbite, extreme cold.

The wider storm

A dust storm was reported north-northeast of Kit Carson as an arctic cold front moved through. Behind the arctic air mass, wind gusts of 20-35 MPH gusts and temperatures falling to the teens below zero, moved over East Central Colorado. The coldest wind chills approached -50F during the worst of the cold.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1072496. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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