Coldest Wind Chills Reported Northern Minnesota On Friday

The coldest arctic air of the season has settled in over the region, bringing brutally cold wind chills to Minnesota to end the week.

With air temperatures sinking into the double-digit below zero range and wind dropping those "feels like" wind chill values into dangerous territory, the National Weather Service has issued one of the first few extreme cold warnings across Northern Minnesota since they reconfigured how they alert the public to dangerously cold conditions.

Today (Friday, January 23) is the coldest day in this stretch of arctic air that is supposed to hang around into next week that will keep temperatures near or below zero across the region.

While Friday night is expected to see wind chills across Northern Minnesota dipping into the 40s below zero, the most brutal of wind chills were in the morning hours of the day today.

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Being wind chill values are calculated using both temperature (which is slower to change) and wind speed (which can gust and get calm more rapidly), these "feels like" winter temperatures can fluctuate a lot.

I combed through hourly National Weather Service snapshot data to find the coldest recorded wind chills across Northern Minnesota through the early hours of Friday morning, with lots of the region getting below -50, and even getting below -60 in one spot!

Coldest Recorded Wind Chills In Northern Minnesota Friday Morning

Here's a full rundown of the coldest wind chills recorded across Northern Minnesota and the hour in which they were recorded:

Grand Marais (on top of the hill) -63 °F at 7 am

Duluth (on top of the hill): -56 °F at 7 am

Isabella: -56 °F at 8 am

Hibbing: -55 °F at 6 am

Ely: -54 °F at 5 am

Cloquet: -53 °F at 8 am

Grand Rapids: -53 °F at 2 am

Two Harbors (on top of the hill): -52 °F at 8 am

International Falls: -52 °F at 4 am

Eveleth: -51 °F at 3 am

Bemidji: -51 °F at 5 am

Walker: -50 °F at 3 am

Effie: -50 °F at 4 am

Brainerd: -49 °F at 12 am

Roseau: -49 °F at 12 am

Thief River Falls: -48 °F at 6 am

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Baudette: -48 °F at 1 am

Duluth (by the lake): -45 °F at 6 am

Aitkin: -45 °F at 8 am

East Grand Forks: -43 °F at 2 am

McGregor: -42 °F at 9 am

Moose Lake: -42 °F at 4 am

Schroeder: -37 °F at 3 am

While Northern Wisconsin didn't see wind chills as cold as Minnesota's coldest, plenty of Wisconsin towns rivaled the wind chills seen in Minnesota. Here are Northern Wisconsin's coldest wind chills from Friday.

While the weekend and next week look to remain cold, they will be warmer than Friday has been. By the last couple of days of January, the forecast hints at a bit of a warmup with double-digit temperatures above zero for Northern Minnesota.