D.C. Sees Coldest Weather in 5 Years|ABC 7 News

WASHINGTON - Temperatures in the D.C.-area only rose into the 20's Thursday, but it felt much colder with the wind chill.

The sunny, but bitter cold and windy day made being outside miserable, and it is just the beginning of a cold front that will bring the coldest weather the area has seen in five years.

Bismarck: When over 70 degrees of warming still leaves you below freezing

Bismarck's temperature plunged to 44 degrees below zero Thursday morning. By Friday afternoon, the thermometer was to swing more than 70 degrees higher as warmer Pacific air replaced arctic air, said Len Peterson, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Bismarck.

"We're going to go from a morning low (Thursday) morning of 44 below to Friday, an afternoon high of 27 to 28 degrees," he said.
...
The National Weather Service said Bismarck's 44 below zero temperature shortly after 7:30 a.m. Thursday was a record for the date and one degree short of the city's all-time record low.