Extreme Cold/Wind Chill in Red Lake, Minnesota

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill January 22, 2026 – January 24, 2026 · Red Lake, Minnesota

What the National Weather Service wrote

Based on nearby mesonet sites in surrounding counties and widespread wind chills reported region wide around Red Lake County, we can extrapolate that wind chills -40 or lower occurred during the morning hours of January 22 through the early morning hours of January 24.

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 northwest and west central Minnesota.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1316586. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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