{"id":597,"date":"2013-01-18T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2013-01-18T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T22:23:06","slug":"36-years-ago-today-the-coldest-morning-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"36 Years Ago Today: The Coldest Morning In Recorded Cincinnati History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 36th anniversary of the coldest low temperature on record in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky International Airport dropped to -25\u00b0 on January 18, 1977; the high temperature that afternoon was only 0\u00b0.<\/p>\n<p>It was brutally cold in the Tri-State that morning, but a map of early morning lows for January 18, 1977 reveals that some spots got colder than others:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/jan18-jan181997lows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-598\" alt=\"jan18-jan181997lows\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/jan18-jan181997lows.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data from NOAA&#8217;s Earth Systems Research Laboratory shows arctic air (in purple) surging not just into the Ohio Valley that day, but all the way down to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/jan18-850anom181977.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-601\" alt=\"jan18-850anom181977\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/jan18-850anom181977.gif\" width=\"481\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While you may not remember the date, you may remember the Ohio River being frozen. Video from the WKRC-TV archives shows many walking across the Ohio River that day:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/frozenriver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" alt=\"frozenriver\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/frozenriver.jpg\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many unsuccessfully tried to drive their cars across the river while the river was frozen. You may also remember seeing the Cincinnati buildings perspiring in the arctic air:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/coldcity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-600\" alt=\"coldcity\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/coldcity.jpg\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati has only dropped under -20\u00b0 four times since the coldest day on record&#8230;once each in January 1984 and 1985 and twice in January 1994. This anniversary is a reminder that arctic air can &#8211; and often does &#8211; push south this time of the year. While it won&#8217;t be as cold as January 18, 1977, next week looks to be the coldest stretch so far this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 36th anniversary of the coldest low temperature on record in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky International Airport dropped to -25\u00b0 on January 18, 1977; the high temperature that afternoon was only 0\u00b0. It was brutally cold in the Tri-State that morning, but a map of early morning lows for January 18, 1977 reveals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}