President-elect Donald Trump said his inauguration will take place in the Capitol Rotunda due to dangerously low temperatures.
Chilly temperatures pushed President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration indoors, a rare but not unprecedented move.
President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration will take place inside the U.S. Capitol on Monday rather than outdoors because of severe cold, the first time in 40 years that U.S. presidential inaugural ceremonies will be moved indoors.
The coldest inauguration on record was President Ronald Reagan’s second swearing-in ceremony in January 1985, when the temperature was 7 degrees, followed by President Ulysses Grant’s ceremony in 1873 at 16 degrees and President John F. Kennedy’s ceremony in 1961 at 22 degrees.
Bitter cold – along with a chance of snow – is in the latest forecast for President-elect Donald J. Trump's Inauguration Day.
Donald Trump has been robbed of a huge swearing-in ceremony after his inauguration was moved indoors due to dangerously freezing temperatures
The second inauguration of Ronald Reagan on Jan. 20, 1985, was forced indoors due to intense cold. As USA TODAY noted that day, "The USA's 50th inauguration today moves indoors – a victim of bone-chilling temperatures that threatened 350,000 invited guests and parade watchers."
WASHINGTON: United States President-elect Donald Trump's will be held inside the Capitol on Monday instead of outdoors owing to severe cold marking first time in 40 years that
The Mobile Azalea Trail Maids are now enroute to Washington D.C. to participate in the 60th Annual Inaugural Parade for President-elect Donald Trump. Many of the young ladies relieved the parade has been moved indoors because of the frigid cold temperatures.
From blizzards to downpours, weather has shaped inaugurations. Donald Trump's ceremony is the second time cold temperatures have moved the president-elect inside.
What will the weather be like on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and President-elect Donald Trump's Inauguration? Check Monday's forecast here.