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Cold/Wind Chill in Jackson, Missouri

Cold/Wind Chill January 12, 2018 · Jackson, Missouri

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Kansas City Health Department confirmed that a homeless person died due to hypothermia. Temperatures across the area, were not considered to be extremely cold, as morning lows were in the 0 to 5 degree range, with wind chills dropping to -11 at KC International Airport.

The wider storm

On the morning of January 12, 2018 temperatures across Kansas City dropped to the single digits, but light northwest winds contributed to wind chill values across the city dropping to 11 degrees below zero. As a result of the cold at least one homeless person died.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 737796. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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