Kyle Morgan, 32, Cranberry Township, rips down the hill on his freshly waxed sled at North Boundary Park in Cranberry Township, on December 26, 2022. Morgan moved to the area from Florida two years ago. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

Saturday marked the coldest Christmas Eve on record in the Pittsburgh area.

Temperatures dropped Saturday to a mere 12 degrees, just one degree below the previous record of 13 degrees set in 1983, according to Lee Hendricks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh.

“We had some cold air push into the region, but I think what stood out was the amount of time that we had the cold air dominating our area,” Hendricks said.

It wasn’t since 1976 or 1977 that such cold temperatures dominated the region for such a significant span of time over Christmas, he said.

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