Coldest Morning of 2017?

By some definitions, we did end up with a White Christmas for most of Central Ohio. CMH reported 0.8" of new snow Christmas Eve in to early Christmas Day, and I ended up with 0.5" in Canal Winchester. Dayton and Cincinnati ended up with a little more than us, but overall it's safe to say that everyone saw something. By the one inch on the ground definition, we missed out. But I'd say since it's been 7 years since we saw that, I think most people will just be happy that there was anything at all.

Franklin County was added to the Winter Weather Advisory on Sunday, and that was a mistake. I think the NWS just threw that out there because of the potential to snarl traffic on a holiday.

But as that cold air began to pour in to the area Christmas morning we felt the first real arctic cold of the Winter season. We've pretty much been on a gradual trend downward since Sunday night, and we hit rock bottom this morning with a low temp at my house of 4°. Some places like Columbus and Dayton had their coldest morning of all of 2017. That's rare, considering January traditionally sees our coldest temps, especially in to the second week of the year. So we're a few weeks early with the extreme cold.

But it's not over.

There's a chance we go NYE in to New Year's Day with the coldest temps of the season so far, if you believe the latest Euro run:

Without much wind, we won't have a wind chill warning that morning, but perhaps an advisory.

Check back again tomorrow or Friday as I'll discuss one last snow of 2017!