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The coldest air of the winter so far will blow into Washington, D.C., on Monday as President-elect Donald Trump stands before the capitol to take the oath of office.
The temperature on Inauguration Day at noon – when the president-elect takes the oath of office – is expected to be around 20C, about 20 degrees below normal.
It will likely be the coldest Inauguration Day since President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, when the midday temperature was 7 degrees. The midday temperature was 28 degrees during President Obama’s first inauguration in 2009.
Winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph are likely Monday. These winds will make conditions downright frigid. Wind chills are expected to hover around 10 degrees during the day Monday and could drop to the single digits after sunset.
A mix of rain and snow is possible on Sunday before the main event, but Monday looks cold and windy, but dry, so far.
Extremely cold air from the Arctic will spread southward across Canada late in the week and rush toward the northern United States on Saturday morning. It will then extend across much of the western and central United States on Saturday and reach parts of the South and East on Sunday.
Temperatures could be nearly 30 degrees below normal by Monday for millions of people in the Lower 48 region, in what is already the coldest time of the year.
The inauguration is not the only event that will be affected by this cold blast. The temperature will be in the 20s for Saturday’s mid-afternoon kickoff between the Texans and Chiefs in Kansas City, but the wind chill will hover in the teens for kickoff and throughout of the match.
Brutal cold is also forecast for Sunday’s Ravens-Bills game in Orchard Park, New York. Temperatures will reach the single digits for kickoff in the early evening and drop several degrees from there. Wind chills will be in the single digits for the entire game.
There have been 22 inaugurations since the event was moved to January 20, 1937. Of those, a midday temperature of 24 degrees would be the third coldest — it was 22 degrees at the swearing-in of John F .Kennedy in 1961. Eight inches of fresh snow fell the night before.
President Reagan holds the record for the hottest and coldest January inauguration. While his second inauguration day in 1985 was only 7 degrees, his first in 1981 was 55 degrees.