Tuesday for the tie, Wednesday for the win.
Toledo got two weather records overnight for the price of one, although on Tuesday it only got cold enough at Toledo Express Airport to tie the record for the date, not beat it. Wednesday’s record then fell long before sunrise.
A 15-degree reading just before midnight tied the Nov. 12 record set in 1976. The 13-degree record for Nov. 13, which dated back to 1911, was beaten by 3 a.m. and the temperature at the airport continued to fall, reaching 8 degrees sometime around sunrise. That is the second-earliest in the fall Toledo has had a single-digit temperature in its recorded weather history; the mercury previously fell to 9 on Nov. 8, 1991.
Forecasters expect Wednesday morning to have been Toledo’s extreme of a blast of Siberian air that rushed into the region Monday night following a 4-inch snowfall Monday. Local temperatures are expected to crack the freezing mark Thursday, but it’s likely to stay colder than normal at least into early next week, according to the National Weather Service office in Cleveland.
First Published November 13, 2019, 1:37 p.m.
