This Day in Weather History

On This Day In Weather History - January 22
Local
1930	The temperature in downtown Kansas City plunged 10 degrees below zero. January of 1930 was much below normal in temperature and much above normal in snow. A brutal month. There have not been any 22nd's with a below zero average temperature, even in 1930.
National
1943	Chinook winds during the early morning hours caused the temperature at Spearfish, SD to rise from -4 to 45 in just two minutes, the most dramatic temperature rise in world weather records. An hour and a half later, the mercury plunged from 54 back down to -4 in just twenty-seven minutes.
1982	Minneapolis broke its 24-hour snowfall record with 17.2 inches of the white stuff. The previous record had been set just two days earlier, when 17.1 inches fell. (A new record was later set in 1991 with 18.5 inches).