The presidential inauguration ceremony will take place on what could be the coldest inauguration day since 1985.

The Polar Express that blasted into Washington for President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural in 1985 forced the whole inaugural ceremony indoors, and the parade was canceled.

It will likely be the coldest Inauguration Day since President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985 when ... but dry. Brutally cold Arctic air will spill south through Canada late this week and rush into the northern US by Saturday morning.

A brutal polar vortex is set to bury the Big Apple in snow Sunday and then deliver deadly single-digit temperatures that will feel like 15 degrees below zero.

Millions of Americans are bracing for life-threatening cold as an arctic blast driven by the polar vortex plunges temperatures across the country, reaching as far south as the Gulf Coast. The brutal cold,

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony is moving indoors to the Capitol rotunda because of a frigid weather forecast in the nation's capital Monday, the president-elect announced on social media Friday.

Ronald Reagan became the oldest President to take office at the age of 73. In 2021, outgoing President Joe Biden broke the record at the age of 78 years, And now Trump, who turned 78 in June 2024, will become the oldest person to start a presidential term.

President-elect Donald Trump moved his inauguration ceremony inside for Monday due to an "Arctic blast." How cold will Florida be?

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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."

President-elect Trump's inauguration will now take place inside the U.S. Capitol due to cold weather forecast for Monday, the first indoor inauguration since Ronald Reagan's second inauguration in January 1985.