Extreme Cold/Wind Chill in Southern Oconee, South Carolina

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill December 1, 2000 – December 31, 2000 · Southern Oconee, South Carolina

What the National Weather Service wrote

Cold weather persisted through almost the entire month of December, causing emergency heating funds to run completely out in some areas, and to fall short in many others.

The wider storm

December 2000 will long be remembered for the brutal hold that cold weather had on the region. At the NWS office located at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, it was the coldest month on record since the NWS began official record-keeping in November 1962.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5177016. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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