MPR’s Matt Sepic reports on the various ways Minnesotans are dealing with the brutal cold snap that hit the state. Amid some of the coldest weather in a generation, the Postal Service stopped delivering mail, schools closed, homeless sought shelter, a rail on the Blue Line cracked, Twin Cities hospitals saw a jump in frostbite cases, and there were broken water mains. Report is followed by an interview with John Storkamp, a runner in the Arrowhead 135 race.

The arctic outbreak from January 27-31, 2019, had some of the lowest air temperatures to visit Minnesota since 1996, and the lowest wind chills since the 1980s. The Twin Cities saw twelve hours straight of -50 degrees or colder wind chill temperatures, with a reading of -55F on January 29th. This was the coldest wind chill reading in the Twin Cities since January 19, 1985.