1918: Bitter cold immobilizes mail delivery in Midwest for 2 weeks
This Date in Weather History - January 11
This Date in Weather History · AccuWeather
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Show Notes
The first week of January 1918 brought a persistent bitter cold the upper Midwest and the great lakes region. In many places high temperatures barely reached the freezing mark. Already storages brought on by World War I were being felt in the region with scarcity of fuel to heat homes. Then an even colder air mass that had been building across the arctic regions of Canada plunged southward into the northern tier of the United States. Meanwhile a storm was brewing in the southern states, as that system swept northward bringing plenty of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico along with it. The result was a Vast storm of blizzard proportions moved through Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. Toledo had 63 mph winds and a temperature drop from +28 degrees to -15 degrees as the storm pulled the arctic air southward behind it. The result was a Complete immobilization and no mail for 2 weeks in many parts of the Midwest.
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