Inauguration To Move Indoors Due To Arctic Freeze

CNN reports:

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration is expected to be moved indoors Monday due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the plans told CNN.

Plans are underway to have Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance sworn into office inside the US Capitol Rotunda, the sources said.

Discussions regarding where to hold the inaugural parade and other celebrations are still underway. However, Trump’s team has been in talks to potentially hold some of the festivities at the Capitol One arena, where Trump will host a rally on Sunday.

The Washington Post reports:

The Washington region should brace for dangerously cold weather on Monday when Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president. Temperatures will not get much above 20 degrees, and, factoring in howling winds, it will feel like the single digits.

Trump’s inauguration is poised to be the most frigid since President Ronald Reagan’s in 1985, when it was so cold that the swearing-in ceremony was moved inside. It will be even colder than it was during Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 when the high temperature was 30 degrees, the low 19 and wind chills were in the teens.

The wintry conditions threaten to be about as harsh as they get in the D.C. area. The ground may be covered in fresh snow from a storm on Sunday — snow that strong gusts may whip through the cold air.

So maybe no parade, either? Whee!