Church St., east from the post office (the first building on the right). Next to this is the New Harmony Tavern and beyond that Hargrave's Short Order Lunch Room. Although no specific information about New Harmony could be found, weather.gov says that December 1917-January 1918 was the coldest and snowiest ever recorded ""in Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, and several other locations across southern Indiana and central Kentucky." In mid-December it was so cold that the Ohio River froze over completely. Temperatures rose and there was no snow on ground at Christmas Eve, but a ""massive Canadian high"" came through and temperatures plummeted again and snow fell.""Two to four inches of snow fell on southern Indiana and north central Kentucky on the 25th, helping to set the stage for the cold temperatures to come. By the morning of the 30th a second, reinforcing high came in and was centered just northeast of Lexington at dawn. In southern Indiana temperatures bottomed out at -14� at Madison, -20� at Paoli, and -19� at Salem and Scottsburg. In central Kentucky the coldest readings were -16� at Bardstown and Frankfort, -19� at Junction City, and -20� at Taylorsville. A hundred years later, December 1917 still stands as the 3rd coldest December on record at Louisville and Lexington, #4 at Frankfort, and #6 at Bowling Green. A few more inches of snow fell on the 1st and second of January 1918, and with the exception of a brief respite on the 5th and 6th, colder than normal conditions continued through the first 3 weeks of the new year. As a matter of fact, even after the blistering cold of early December, citizens of southern Indiana and central Kentucky hadn�t seen the worst cold of the season yet. On the 11th yet another dome of incredibly cold air that had organized in northwest Canada pushed into the northern Plains and Rockies while strong low pressure developed rapidly near New Orleans. On the night of the 11th and into the 12th the low continued to deepen and became quite powerful as it shot through the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys to the Great Lakes while the Canadian high nosed as far south as the Texas coast. Though the 11th started off near the freezing mark, the low traveled just to our east and joined forces with the western high to pull frigid air down from Canada. As the low deepened, those winds grew stronger�and stronger�and stronger. By evening sustained winds were in the 20 to 40 mph range across southern Indiana and central Kentucky, combined with blinding snow that had started falling around lunch time and intensified in the afternoon. As darkness fell the blizzard raged, with gusts to 52 mph at Louisville and 44 mph at Lexington. At 7pm in Louisville winds were sustained at 30 mph with a temperature of 13�. The twelfth day of 1918 �was probably the coldest and most disagreeable day experienced in a century� (Monthly Weather Review), or at least since the intense cold of January 1, 1864 (Climatological Data). At 7am, winds were blowing at 20 to 30 mph while the temperature at Louisville was fifteen degrees below zero and Lexington was fourteen below. Using the modern calculation, that gives a wind chill around 45 degrees below zero! Though the snow had ended and the sun came out, the wind continued to roar throughout the day at speeds of 20 to 40 mph with higher gusts. The temperature rose to only -2� at Louisville and -3� at Lexington. January 12, 1918 is still one of only two days in both cities� histories during which the temperature stayed below zero all day. After the storm of the 11th-12th abated, intense cold continued. Every day from the 12th to the 22nd the daily high temperature at Louisville was colder than the normal low temperature (using 1981-2010 normals). Heavy snows fell during this time as well, including 11.2� at Louisville on the 14th-15th accompanied by winds gusting to 45 mph. Transportation was practically paralyzed, including the inter-urbans and streetcars. In Louisville on the 14th three people were killed when two inter-urban cars collided, and the next day four people died when a snow-laden roof collapsed. Fuel shortages added to the misery, and schools were closed for several days. In northern and western sections of Kentucky some rural farmers were snowbound for up to two weeks.""( http://www.weather.gov/lmk/december_1917_january_1918).