It Will Be Bitterly Cold for Trump’s Inauguration
It will be bitterly cold for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday as temperatures in the D.C. area dip well below average for this time of year. The weather forecast calls for a chance of snow on Sunday, followed by gusty winds and high temperatures only around 20 degrees.
“We’re going to have dangerously cold temperatures with low wind chills,” said Brian LaSorsa, meteorologist with the National Weather Service. By late morning, temperatures will likely be in the teens to the low to middle 20s.
The hundreds of thousands of people in town for the inauguration will feel strong wind blowing almost constantly throughout the day. The wind chill will be in the single digits to lower teens, making it “very, very cold.” If the forecast holds, the inauguration would be the coldest since former President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, when the temperature was just 7 degrees with wind chills dipping between -10 to -20.