January of 2025 was record-breaking in terms of low temperatures and snow across the continental U.S., while Alaska recorded one of its warmest Januarys ever.
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00:00Now that we're one week into February, looking back at the month of January, it was record-breaking
00:06cold across the majority of the country.
00:09In fact, January 2025 was the coldest January since at least 2011.
00:14And these temperature records, they date back to the 1890s.
00:19In fact, of the cities that were surveyed, 166 out of 191, that's 87% of these cities
00:26were below those temperatures.
00:28And the majority of the cities were east of the Rockies, especially the southeast because
00:31of all that snowfall we had.
00:33So if you look at the temperatures as far as the departure from average and normal for
00:37some of these cities, it extends from Kansas, Georgia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida,
00:42Ohio, dozens and dozens of states had below average temperatures there.
00:48And as far as the snowfall totals, every single one of these cities you see right there, this
00:52was on January 21st.
00:54Every single one of those cities set daily, all-time daily snowfall records there on that
00:59snowfall you're seeing on the right-hand side of your screen.
01:02And for the record-breaking cold, Kansas, Wyoming, and West Virginia, every single city
01:06surveyed in those states were at least seven degrees below normal, while Alaska was actually
01:11the warmest with all their cities at least 9.7 degrees above normal here for January
01:182021.
01:19In fact, Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Bluefield, West Virginia, both were in the top five
01:24coldest all-time Januaries as far as cities go.
01:28So that's just the contrast.
01:30But whenever you compare Parkersburg, which was the coldest compared to normal, to Fairbanks,
01:34Fairbanks actually ranked in the top ten as far as warmest ever.
01:38So yes, we had the record-breaking coldest January since 2011, and now we're going to
01:43be tracking to see how we rebound heading into February.