Cold/Wind Chill — Bay, Michigan

1997-01-17 to 1997-01-19 · Bay, Michigan

Wider weather episode

The coldest weather of the winter occurred from the 17th through the 19th. During that period, lows reached as low as -6 at Detroit's metro airport, and -9 at Flint's Bishop airport and the National Weather Service forecast office at White Lake. One man died of hypothermia in Bay City. A few days earlier, on the 12th, another man died of hypothermia in Warren, when the temperature at metro airport fell to 2 above zero. Several other less severe cases of hypothermia were reported through mid-January.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5586451. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.