Top 10 Coldest Days of the Past 60 Years

(Sorted by Afternoon High Temperature)

Position Number	Date	Day of week	High	Low	Snow	Other
1	01/20/1985	Sunday	4	3
2	01/19/1994	Wednesday	6	-11
3	01/24/1948	Saturday	9	-9	5.0 inches	27 mph wind
4	02/18/1979	Sunday	9	-3	11.0 inches
5	01/10/1982	Sunday	10	-8
6	01/29/1966	Saturday	11	3	10.0 inches
7	02/04/1996	Sunday	12	1
8	01/15/1994	Saturday	14	-2	Flurries
9	02/17/1958	Monday	14	1
9	02/03/1961	Friday	14	1	6.5 inches
10	02/05/1947	Wednesday	14	7

Other cold hard facts:

1. Typically during the course of the fall, the Shenandoah Valley will see it’s first below freezing day around mid October. On September 20, 1956 the temperature dropped to 29 degrees, making it the earliest below freezing day of the past 60 years.

2. Our top 10 survey does not include any days from the winter of 76 – 77. However, from December 21, 1976 through February 11, 1977 there was a stretch of a record setting 53 consecutive days in which the temperature dropped to freezing or below.

3. Some of the coldest mornings of the past 60 years. These include:

Sunday, January 17, 1982

Monday, January 21, 1985

Saturday, December 23, 1989

Each of these days had a low temperature of –12 degrees.