Extreme Cold Watch, Minnesota
SevereWind chills as low as 30 below zero. The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 50 degrees below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.
Ended Thursday, January 22, 2026.
- Issued
- Expires
- Updated
Places in this watch
- Duluth
- Hibbing
- Brainerd
- Cloquet
- Grand Rapids
- Hermantown
- Baxter
- Virginia
- International Falls
- Chisholm
- Rice Lake
- Two Harbors
- Eveleth
- Ely
- Pine City
- Proctor
- Mountain Iron
- Moose Lake
- Cohasset
- Breezy Point
- Sandstone
- Pequot Lakes
- Crosslake
- Crosby
- Aitkin
- Esko
- Hoyt Lakes
- Coleraine
- Nisswa
- Hinckley
- Silver Bay
- Gilbert
- Rock Creek
- Aurora
- Babbitt
- Grand Marais
- Lake Shore
- Scanlon
- East Gull Lake
- Keewatin
- Nashwauk
- Walker
- Biwabik
- Buhl
- Carlton
- Pine River
- Deer River
- Emily
- Bovey
- Cass Lake
- La Prairie
- Taconite
- Barnum
- Hill City
- Marble
- Ironton
- Ranier
- Littlefork
- Cook
- Deerwood
- Floodwood
- Pillager
- Jenkins
- Big Lake
- Fifty Lakes
- Sturgeon Lake
- Tower
- Wrenshall
- Bigfork
- Remer
- Soudan
- McGregor
- Willow River
- Ball Club
- Calumet
- Mahtowa
- Askov
- Cuyuna
- Finlayson
- Hackensack
- Backus
- Cromwell
- Mahnomen
- Nett Lake
- Lutsen
- Finland
- Rutledge
- Knife River
- Orr
- Inger
- Garrison
- Big Falls
- Winton
- Warba
- Wright
- Kettle River
- Palisade
- Northome
- Longville
- Kinney
- Bena
- Merrifield
- Meadowlands
- Brook Park
- Chickamaw Beach
- Federal Dam
- Beaver Bay
- Riverton
- Brookston
- Iron Junction
- Effie
- McKinley
- Trommald
- Squaw Lake
- Bruno
- Fort Ripley
- Zemple
- Kerrick
- Whipholt
- Tamarack
- Manhattan Beach
- Mizpah
- Henriette
- Goodland
- Leonidas
- McGrath
- Denham
- Boy River
How much
- Wind chill
- As low as 30 below zero
Map
- This watch
- Interstates
- US highways
- US border
Details from the National Weather Service
- What
- For the Extreme Cold Warning, dangerously cold wind chills 40 to 50 degrees below zero expected. For the Extreme Cold Watch, dangerously cold wind chills as low as 30 degrees below zero possible.
- Where
- Pine County. This includes the Tribal Lands of the Mille Lacs Band, Hinckley and, Lena Lake areas.
- When
- For the Extreme Cold Warning, from 2 in the afternoon this afternoon to noon CST Friday. For the Extreme Cold Watch, from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning.
- Impacts
- The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 50 degrees below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.
Updates
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Cancelled by the National Weather Service. January 22, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 22, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 21, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 21, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 21, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 21, 2026
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Extreme Cold Watch issued for Thursday night through Saturday afternoon. January 20, 2026