Know Ohio: Record-Breaking Weather

Ohio has had some high high temperatures and some low low temperatures!

Anna heads through the history of our state's most extreme temperatures.

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Here in the Buckeye state, we’re lucky to have all four seasons – and we’ve seen some incredible weather extremes. Ohio and the rest of the United States began officially recording temperatures and weather patterns in 1870 when the National Weather Service was established. So we have weather records that go back over 145 years.

But you don’t have to go back very far to remember one of the coldest winters. I for one am still thawing out after last February, which was the coldest on record in much of Northeast Ohio. We saw a lot of snowfall last winter too, but it simply does not compare to what Ohioans experienced in January of 1978.

It’s been called the White Hurricane or the Cleveland Superbomb -- and for good reason. The Blizzard of ‘78 was possibly the worst storm to ever hit the Buckeye State. Over the course of 3 days, twenty-one inches of snow buried Northeast Ohio – and wind gusts of nearly 100 miles per hour created large snow drifts that shut down just about every major road.

But it was during earlier blizzard, in 1899, that Ohio hit its lowest recorded temperature: a frigid -39 degrees was recorded in Milligan, Ohio. That’s about 25 degrees colder than your average freezer.

But enough about the cold – let’s turn up the heat! I bet a heat wave sounds pretty good right about now, but in the summer of 1934 it was just too hot to handle. During that year, June, July, and August saw the highest average temperatures ever. It culminated in the single highest temperature ever recorded in our state: a balmy 113 degrees, which was recorded in Gallipolis!

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