The sudden weather-induced change forced a scramble for hundreds of thousands of people who had spent months planning for the swearing-in of the nation’s 47th president.

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.

Bad weather forecasts mean President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda and people visiting Washington from around the country won’t be able to see it in person.

The potential change, a rare break with tradition, would deny Mr. Trump the pomp and large audience he hoped for at his second swearing-in.

The relationship between President-elect Trump and his former vice president, Mike Pence, was irreparably broken when Mr. Pence refused Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he will move the inauguration ceremony indoors as Washington, DC prepares for record low temperatures. The ceremony will now take place inside the Capitol rotunda.

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week is expected to be moved indoors because of cold weather, according to multiple reports Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump said his inauguration on Monday will take place inside the U.S. Capitol rather than outdoors because of severe cold, the first time in 40 years that U.S. presidential inaugural ceremonies will be moved indoors.

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.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the Oval Office on Monday, several groups are working to ensure that Monday's inauguration is safe.

President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into the White House for ... sources told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that "dangerously cold temperatures" are moving Trump's Inauguration indoors. "Expect Trump and Vance to be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda ...