It Feels Like Winter in Midwest as Arctic Front Brings Record Cold
The second full day of summer dawned like the last day of winter Monday, with record cold temperatures as low as the 30s in more than 60 cities from the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast.
Record books were rewritten in 18 states and the District of Columbia. Indianapolis reported 37 degrees early Monday, its coldest for any date in June since record-keeping began in 1871.
Youngstown, Ohio, chilled to a record 34 degrees for the date, and Zanesville, Ohio, reported a daily record of 38.
An arctic weather system was ushered in by the front that set off severe thunderstorms across the Plains and Midwest last week, said Darin Figurskey, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Detroit, where Monday’s low of 44 toppled a June 22 record that had stood since 1885. For some cities, Monday was the second straight day of record lows.
The big chill came from the northwest, more typical of winter than summer, said weather service meteorologist Barry Gooden in Charleston, W. Va.
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