Cold/Wind Chill — Bottineau, North Dakota

2025-01-18 to 2025-01-21 · Bottineau, North Dakota

Event narrative

Wind chill values dropped as low as 60 below.

Wider weather episode

A frigid Arctic airmass settled over the area bringing very low wind chill values over northwest and central North Dakota, which was followed by an even colder Arctic airmass, resulting in extremely cold wind chill values throughout all of western and central North Dakota. The lowest wind chill values were experienced the night of January 19 into the morning of January 20, when almost all of western and central North Dakota experienced minimum wind chill values of 45 below to around 60 below.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1228102. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.