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# Late January cold sets record for Bloomington
- URL: https://bsquarebulletin.com/late-january-cold-sets-record-for-bloomington/
- Published: 2019-01-31T17:06:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-25T12:43:48.000Z
- Author: Dave Askins
- Tags: Old B Square, #imported-whole

Two records for cold temperature were set on the last day of January this year in Bloomington, Indiana: a coldest low of -10 F; and a coldest high of 2 F.

The day isn’t over yet, but the IU weather station—a National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program site—has a 24-hourly observation time of 7 a.m., [according to the NWS](https://twitter.com/NWSIndianapolis/status/1090738867941097475). So the daily temps for Jan. 31 from the IU station already appear in the [NOAA Regional Climate Center database](http://xmacis.rcc-acis.org/).

The previous record for coldest low stood for 83 years. The -10 F low recorded at the IU station, for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. this morning, was 1 degree colder than the previous coldest low temperature for Jan. 31, which was set in 1936.

The 2 F high was 4 degrees colder than the previous record, set in 2004.

The period of record for those extremes goes back to Nov. 15, 1895.

![r-out-bloomington-temps-jan-31-2019-highlight](https://i0.wp.com/bsquarebulletin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/r-out-bloomington-temps-jan-31-2019-highlight-1.jpg?resize=1100%2C440&ssl=1)

The -10 F measured at the Indiana University weather station for Jan. 31, 2019 was a record coldest daily low temperature. The period of record for that date goes back to 1896\. (The station’s day runs from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m., not midnight to midnight, according to the National Weather Service.)

![r-out-bloomington-hightemps-jan-31-2019](https://i0.wp.com/bsquarebulletin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/r-out-bloomington-hightemps-jan-31-2019.jpg?resize=1100%2C440&ssl=1)

The warmest temperature measured by the Indiana University weather station on Jan. 31, 2019 was 2 F, which was the coldest high temperature for that date, going back to 1896\. (The station’s day runs from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m., not midnight to midnight, according to the National Weather Service.)