Oklahoma is experiencing a polar vortex, with temperatures dropping over the next week.
The cold wind may be a shock when you wake up in the morning; however, the 2025 lowest temperatures have yet to match the coldest Oklahoma City has seen in the past.
Here’s how 2025’s first week compares to the chills of years past.
What is OKC’s coldest January?
Oklahoma City recorded its coldest January in 1930, with an average temperature of 14.4°. Information at the NWS Norman goes back as far as 1891.
Aside from 1930, the coldest January’s on average are:
What’s the coldest it’s gotten in Oklahoma?
Since 1891, the coldest temperature record in January in Oklahoma City’s history was recorded in 1892 with –11°, before wind chill.
Since the turn of the century, only January 2017 saw a day below 0° before wind chill, with the lowest being –3°.
Is it colder now than it was in the past?
The coldest January on average in the last five years was recorded in 2022 when the average monthly temperature was 23.2°. Going back to 1891, 2022 is the 19th coldest January in Oklahoma’s history.
What is the warmest January in Oklahoma’s history?
The warmest January in Oklahoma’s history did not see an average temperature below 32°. In 1923, the month averaged 36.6°.
Since the turn of the century, 2006 has been the warmest January at 33.7° for a monthly average.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Winter weather: When was Oklahoma, OKC’s coldest January?