1875 (Monday)
Today's high of 40° would be the mildest reading of the month, making it the chilliest mildest reading of any winter month. (January 1875 would be the coldest January until 1888, and has since fallen to seventh coldest.)
1907 (Friday)
For the second year in a row the first reading in the 60s fell on this date, more than two months earlier than the typical date (March 11). The day's high in both years was 60°. At the time, only 1876 had an earlier date for a reading in the 60s; since then, nine years have had their first 60s on the first three days of January (most recently in 2005).
1912 (Thursday)
Today was first day this winter with a high of 32° or colder - the first time this occurrence was in January (there have since been twelve other winters that didn't see their first high of 32° or colder until January, most recently in 2024 ).
1918 (Friday)
This was the eighth day in a row with a low temperature in the single digits or colder, the longest such streak on record. The average high/low during this streak was 13°/-3°. Six of the days had lows of zero degrees or colder, including today (-3°).
1950 (Wednesday)
Today's low of 59°is the mildest low temperature ever reported in the month of January, and was more typical of the average low in the first week of June. The high was only seven degrees warmer, but it was a record for the date (which still stands).
1971 (Monday)
A cold rain moved in late in the morning and continued for the rest of the day, amounting to 0.99". This was the first measurable precipitation on this date in 13 years (when just 0.02" fell).
1982 (Monday)
2.73" inches of rain fell, almost all of it during the morning. At one point 0.75" fell in just 30 minutes, between 9:30-10 AM. This was a record amount of rain for the date, and the City's biggest rainstorm since July 29, 1980, when 3.47" fell.
1988 (Monday)
The City woke up to 5.8" of snow that fell overnight. It would be the winter's biggest snowfall.
2001 (Thursday)
Today's high of 34° was the "warmest" temperature of the 16 days between Dec. 21 and Jan. 5.
2012 (Wednesday)
For the first time since the week before Thanksgiving there were back-to-back days with colder than average temperatures. Today was 13 degrees colder than average (high/low of 27°/13°) - the coldest day of a very mild winter; yesterday was nine degrees below average (33°/15°).
Winter finally tried to assert itself as temperatures fell throughout the day, dropping from 36° to 14°. Gusty winds at night produced a wind chill near 0°. This cold sweep of Arctic air broke a record 34-day streak of above average mean temperatures that began on Dec. 1.
2017 (Wednesday)
Today saw the end of New York's second 14-day streak of above-average temperatures in the past 30 days. However, unlike the first one, this streak was eight degrees above average (high/low of 47°/36°), while the one from Nov. 25 to Dec. 8 was +4 degrees (high/low of 51°/41°).
2018 (Thursday)
A powerful coastal storm created near whiteout conditions late in the morning, with snow accumulating close to ten inches by the time it ended later in the afternoon. (Much of Long Island and towns along the Jersey shore were buried under 12"-15".) Today's snow easily broke the previous record for snowfall on this date, which was 4.0" - and today's accumulation of 9.8" was slightly more than last winter's biggest snowfall (9.4" on Feb. 9).
Temperatures held in the mid-20s throughout the storm; wind gusts of 35-45 mph produced wind chills in the single digits. Today was also the tenth consecutive day in which the high was colder than 32°, making this the longest such streak since one of 12 days in January 2003.
2023 (Wednesday)
Today's high was a record-tying 66° (twenty-six degrees above average), and was the earliest reading in the 60s at the beginning of a year since 2005 (when the high reached 60° on New Year's Day). This was the sixth day in a row with a high of 55° or milder; these highs averaged 59°.
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