Cold/Wind Chill in Peoria, Illinois

Cold/Wind Chill December 18, 2016 – December 19, 2016 · Peoria, Illinois

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A Peoria man died of hypothermia at approximately 10am on December 18th. He was found lying on a sidewalk while wind chill values were hovering around -20F.

The wider storm

Canadian high pressure building into the Plains brought a very cold airmass into central Illinois from December 18th through December 19th. Early morning lows on the 18th dropped to between 0 and -10F...while wind-chills dipped as low as -15 to -25F. A Peoria man succumbed to the extreme cold and was found dead on a sidewalk at approximately 10am on December 18th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 666934. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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