Trump's inauguration will be coldest in decades

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

January 16, 2025, 10:40 AM


President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday is forecast to be the coldest in 40 years. An arctic front will pass by Washington, D.C., on Sunday night and winds will pick up out of the northwest, ushering in arctic air.

Monday's temperature will be at its highest -- about 25 degrees -- when the clock strikes Inauguration Day at midnight. Throughout the course of the day, the temperature will slowly fall.

When Trump is sworn in at noon, the temperature will be about 18 or 19 degrees. Due to the wind, the wind chill -- what temperature it feels like -- will be between 5 and 10 degrees. By 7 p.m., when the inauguration balls begin, the temperature will be near 13 degrees with a wind chill of minus 1.

The coldest January Inauguration Day on record was 1985 for President Ronald Reagan's second inauguration.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-inauguration-coldest-decades/story?id=117740964

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Because Hell froze over

[Irish_Dem]

2. Perfect.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. And hopefully it will start sleeting with the commencement of ceremonies.

That way everyone present can freeze over, too.

[thinkingagain]

8. I came to say

Pretty much same 😀

[BonnieJW]

38. YAY

[NotHardly]

70. And reflects the mood of the country.

[Dave Bowman]

3. Cold in every sense of the word.

[NotHardly]

25. It certainly chills me to the bone

[Bengus81]

68. Yepper....been watching on my Weather Underground. What's Trump going to do with that comb over in 15mph winds?

Watch...he'll demand a fully enclosed box under the guise of "security".

[Dave Bowman]

69. Yes, he'll do something like this or he'll wear a stupid maga hat.

[IA8IT]

4. KFC or McDonalds available and warm. Fair is Fair he skipped out four years ago skip it all and watch a movie.

[lastlib]

35. MLK Day--I'm going to use the time to re-read his "Letter From A Birmingham jail",

One of the most American documents in our history.

Not gonna listen to that Felon/Rapist's verbal vomit. - - - - - - - - - -

[GoreWon2000]

6. Cold temperature another example of increasing climate change

As the northern polar ice caps continue to melt because of our warming planet, gravity is pulling all of the melting mess southward which is blocking the warmer water currents from coming up from the south to moderate the temperature.

[Woodwizard]

34. Are you being sarcastic?

Gravity falling south?

Yes warming will change currents that's a given.

[royable]

59. Perhaps gorewon200 is (unclearly) referring to the ....

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Changes in the arctic that could affect deep ocean currents and turn off the Gulf Stream which warms east and west coasts of the North Atlantic. Perhaps?

[GoreWon2000]

79. It's an actual fact

As the polar ice caps continue to melt, gravity is pulling all of that polar ice cap melt southward and that's blocking the warmer water currents from coming up from the south that moderate the temperatures. My father was an engineer so the issue of climate change was part of my childhood.

[Woodwizard]

82. So I guess we don't have to worry about the south pole

That should stay put under that logic.

Thermal currents of course are going to change. And we are going to get plenty of surprises that have not even been put in the climate change model.

[GoreWon2000]

84. Antartica is melting too

and that's contributing to rising sea levels.

[ificandream]

7. Hope Washington is frosted over for this one.

[Blue Owl]

9. And when Melanie takes the stage and gazes out upon the conned....

The temps will drop even lower with that icy stare….

[FakeNoose]

32. Remember ... if she's wearing sunglasses and smiling, it's really "fake Melania"

[sop]

10. And the freezing temperatures will make Trump's usual slurring even worse during his inaugural address.

MAGA morons all across America: "WTF did he just say?"

[endgenocide]

11. Maybe there is a God After all!

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Great song and message. "He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." And not in the Hall of Fame.

[keithbvadu2]

12. It will be a record crowd. Huuuuge. Bigly. Have Sean Spicer do the count.

[japple]

13. Mother Nature knows...

[Marthe48]

14. Not cold enough

N/t

[cstanleytech]

15. Welcome to a cold day in hell folks as it was the only way Trump would become president again.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. May their lips stick to their cans of Bud Lite and require surgical removal.

[Fla Dem]

18. Coldest Inauguration in decades, not just in air temp, but also in human kindness and caring.

[CentralMass]

19. I wonder if Mailordia will show.

[YoshidaYui]

20. Glad i live in CALIFORNIA

BUT yeah, this is definitely the CHINESE YEAR OF THE SNAKE!

[Crowman2009]

42. Coincidently there was a band from California with lyrics about riding the snake.

Of course that song was title "The End" and that sounds pretty ominus now that I think about it.

[Sequoia]

81. Why....that's Jim Morrison +

Big fan. Was in Venice when The Doors (not that good) movie was being filmed.

[Crowman2009]

83. Saw a movie recently that was filmed in Venice back in the early 60's that starred Dennis Hopper as a sailor.

Back when Venice looked like an amusement park.

[markie]

21. yes, very cold

I would like that no one shows....

[Rebl2]

30. I do

wish Biden, Clinton and Obama would be no shows.

[wnylib]

31. The weather would be a good excuse for Biden not to show up.

He will probably be there anyway, but I hope that he arrives late and leaves early. Don't give a damn what happens to the MAGA crowd and their fuhrer, but I don't want to see Biden get sick.

[onenote]

22. Hate to say it, but I don't think it will have much impact on the crowd size

Yes it will be bitterly cold. But it was pretty damn cold for the first Obama inauguration: mid 20's, with winds gusting to 20-25 mph, and wind chill temps in the teens. Not as cold as what's coming, but still quite cold. And the crowd was awesome. I don't think Trump's crowd will top Obama's but i also think that would be the case no matter what the weather.

That being said, I'm not sad in the least that Trump's crowd will be shivering.

[Crowman2009]

43. Some in the crowd might even be leaving in stretchers due to severe frostbite.

[stollen]

54. I'm sure Trump will arrange for buses for quick transport

like he did in the CA desert. Not.

[Crowman2009]

61. Like I said before, he's a reverse faith healer.

[BidenRocks]

58. Pity if they lost their bird! nt

[PortTack]

60. JMO....it will be small like his last one

[Deep State Witch]

23. Tell Him

That William Henry Harrison said that wearing a coat to your inauguration isn't manly.

[Dem2theMax]

24. I wasn't going to use any words. This is what I was going to post.

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Let's put it this way, we are both on the same wavelength.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Turnout will be interesting. I hope no one in protest shows up for Inauguration.

Say, less than 10,000, That will piss Trump off more than anything else.

[aggiesal]

27. It would be his cumupance if he froze right there at the podium. n/t

[spike jones]

28. I sure hope nothing like this happens to trump.

https://forgottenhistoryblog.com/the-9th-us-president-died-of-pneumonia-which-he-may-have-caught-at-his-own-inauguration-ceremony/

[Martin Eden]

29. It'll be cold enough to give a demented old man a coronary

Hopefully.

[FakeNoose]

33. He won't let his hair blow in the wind ... that's how petty and vain he is

I'm guessing this will become the first Inaugural to be moved indoors, just to protect the Presidential hairdo.

[Crowman2009]

36. Given how Trump is a reverse faith healer, a lot of the MAGA cult in the crowd will probably wind up with frostbite.

[Crowman2009]

37. Let's hope this is Trump's William Henry Harrison moment.

[RussellCattle]

55. Boom!!! Just read the Wikipedia entry on him and his illness and death would be a good blueprint......

…..for Trumps demise sometime later this month. The Wiki article mentions cold-like symptoms, fatigue, mental anxiety, a severe chill, a mustard plaster, a laxative, severe pain, bloodletting, low pulse rate, heated cups, castor oil, vomiting, pneumonia, laudanum, opium, camphor, wine, brandy, severe diarrhea, delirium, septic shock and enteric fever. This all in the ten days between the inauguration and his death. I’d be satisfied with something similar for Trump, but with more pain and let’s say ninety days.

[Crowman2009]

72. The wiki article seems to describe RFK Jr approved medical treatments.

[RussellCattle]

74. The blodletting part for sure.

[Traildogbob]

39. Satan HATES the cold

He will have to shut his yap way early. Maybe his Chin anus will freeze into that shape he makes of Putin’s Mushroom.

[madamesilverspurs]

40. Cold makes some things shrivel,

especially if they're already dinky...........


.

[johnnyplankton]

41. In so many ways...

[Scrivener7]

44. William Henry Harrison caught pneumonia at his inauguration, and died

a month later.

[Jack Valentino]

47. We're on the same page tonight!

hahaha

[LeftInTX]

53. He didn't get sick until a week before his death. After running around in the rain

In 2014, it was determined he likely died from typhoid

[Scrivener7]

63. Leave me my dream.

Though, really, this just opens up the possibilities.

[CaptainTruth]

45. Florida Man Catches Pneumonia

I can hope, can't I?

[Jack Valentino]

46. Maybe he'll catch cold and DIE within 30 days...

It wouldn't be the first time.

[PennRalphie]

48. Nobody's watching the inauguration.

Right? I can’t even believe that any of DU will watch. What’s the point? Several threads about not watching.

Let them be cold. Nobody will watch anyhow.

[Strelnikov_]

49. Harrison

Just sayin

[Ford_Prefect]

50. Hell will indeed be ...... It only stands to reason.

[Hassler]

51. Praying for freezing rain. I hear it's good luck

[elleng]

52. Yes, GOOD and cold! Reagan's was held INDOORS, due to the cold.

(My daughter was due 2 days later, and I walked across the Mall back to apartment from doc's office. Daughter born ON her due date!!!)

[C Moon]

56. I read that the temps will be low, too.

[keroro gunsou]

57. good.

nt

[BootinUp]

62. An Omen from the universe. Nt

[KS Toronado]

64. Exactly what I was thinking, an Omen

Plus we'll get to hear him re-purpose an old lie, "Biggest inauguration crowd ever!" Meanwhile will
MSM say it's so cold people stayed home or will they repeat his lies?

[Fla Dem]

65. Totally appropriate. He has a heart of ice.

[kimbutgar]

66. Yes let those magaloon brown shirts freeze their a$$e$ off!

And the 🍊💩🤡 also suffer the cold.

But snow and freezing rain also need to happen !

[Henry203]

67. I prefer 35 degrees with rain

hypothermia stuff.

[Ranting Randy]

71. What is freezing over?

[mwb970]

73. When bad things happen in liberal areas, the MAGA morons always say it's God's punishment.

Did God have anything to do with this cold snap? Or is it Democrats controlling the weather again?

Or, maybe it's just a cold spell during the winter.

[Deminpenn]

75. Trump moved his inauguration inside

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-inauguration-moving-indoors-due-163800799.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

The big wuss.

NWS forecast for DC on Monday is 24 and sunny.

[BumRushDaShow]

76. "NWS forecast for DC on Monday is 24 and sunny. "

They will still have a couple inches of snow from the coastal storm that is forecast. My weather forum has been jumping about this and the track for our area.

[Deminpenn]

78. Couple inches of snow usually paralyzes DC

Those DC metro area drivers do not the handle snow covered roads well.

[BumRushDaShow]

80. Oh I know....

Have been down there many many times at all times of the year before I retired, and it's not just snow that freaks them out. A little rain and the beltway (particularly with the truck traffic) slows to a halt!

[Karma13612]

77. Very symbolic. eom