Extreme Cold/Wind Chill in Towner, North Dakota

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill January 22, 2026 – January 25, 2026 · Towner, North Dakota

What the National Weather Service wrote

Wind chills frequently below -40 through the three day period across Towner County as measured by multiple observation sites, with brief periods of improvement during the afternoons. The coldest reported wind chill was at the NDAWN site at Clyde 4SW where a wind chill of -56 occurred.

The wider storm

Arctic air settled into the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest resulting in a prologued period of extreme cold and wind chills across eastern North Dakota.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1314974. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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