Extreme Cold/Wind Chill in Bayfield, Wisconsin

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill January 19, 2008 · Bayfield, Wisconsin

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Bayfield County, a 44-year old woman died of hypothermia after her car went into a ditch and she attempted to walk home.

The wider storm

Bitterly cold temperatures, mainly in the teens and 20s below zero, combined with northerly winds to result in wind chill values as low as 40 below in portions of northwest Wisconsin during the morning hours of January 19.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 74101. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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