Final Edition of Low Temperatures

This is quite a round up of low temperatures–state, regional and national. Hope you don’t get bored reading through all of this. Two things to remember. We get more than one report from different sources in the same community. The official weather stations send out their low temperature at 6:00 a.m. and noon. On a morning like this, their low can occur after 6:00 a.m. and we may not know it until noon.

ALABAMA
+1 on a mountain in West Jackson County
2 Hytop, Grantley
4 Valley Head, Mentone
5 New Market (Home to Alabama’s lowest ever official temperature.)
6 Russell Cave, Holly Pond (Jason’s mom)
7 Ardmore, NE Huntsville, Belle Mina, Meridianville, Scrougout, Vinemont, Broomtown, Haleyville
8 Mt. Cheaha Skycam, Huntsville/UAH, Moody, Bankhead National Forest, Cullman Agricultural Station, Muscle Shoals, Owens Crossroads, Russellville, Big Springs (east Randolph County), Huntsville on Monte Sano, Muscadine, Moody
9 Huntsville Airport, Springville/Simmons Mountain, Ft. Payne Airport, Moulton, Scottsboro, Remlap, Vernon, Warrior
10 Hokes Bluff, Cullman Airport, Muscle Shoals, Crossville, Decatur Airport, Hanceville, Hamilton, Gaylesville, Palmerdale, Wynnville, Woodland (Randolph County), Argo, Ashville (with ice on ponds), Northport, Remlap, Centre (on the lake)
11 Just south of Ohatchee, McCalla, Bluff Park/Hoover, Argo, Guntersville, Jasper, Anniston/Choccolucco, Wedowee, Kimberly, Odenville, Clay-Pinson (Womack Rd)
12 Grayson Valley, Roebuck, Crestline, Birmingham Airport, Pinson, Ft. Payne, Southside (near Gadsden), Ashland, Blue Pond, Roanoke, SE Trussville, Hueytown, Oxford, Bluff Park, Vigo
12 Tri-County area near junction of Jefferson/Blount/St. Clair (thick ice on farm pond)
13 Anniston Airport, Gardendale, SW Lamar County, Smith Lake (Walker County side), Concord/Hueytown, Munford
14 Million Dollar Lakes (SW Jefferson County), Helena, Alexander City, Lafayette, Sylacauga, Chelsea (Highway 43), Wadley, Alabaster/near Thompson Road, Wilsonville, Noccalula Falls, Winfield
15 Shelby County Airport, Clanton, Vestavia, Hayden, Weaver, Jemison/
16 Alabaster/Navajo Pines
17 Tuscaloosa, Centreville, Opelika, Coker (30-inch man-made snow by the Coker Skywatcher)
18 Auburn, Verbena, Marion
18 Millbrook (from Chris Howard with ADEM) Chris was the co-op observer for Ashland for many years and we talked on the phone daily.
19 Cordova
21 Montgomery/Dannelly Field
22 Selma
26 Mobile Regional Airport
27 Dothan

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
6 Gatlinburg (Park Headquarters)
4 Cades Cove
-7 Newfound Gap
-13 Mt. LeConte with 2 inches of snow

REGIONAL AND NATIONAL
3 Blairsville, North Georgia near Brasstown Bald (Georgia’s highest point)
3 Cookville, Tennessee, Cloudland, Ga.
-50 Big Black River, Maine (If that holds true, it will be the lowest offiicial temperature ever in the state of Maine.)
-47 Allagass, Maine
-40 Coggin, Iowa
-38 Waterloo, Iowa
-28 Cedar Rapids (Three days in a row with record lows.)
-40 International Falls and Big Fork, Minnesota
-36 Ladysmith, Wisconsin
-32 Dixon, Illinois (NE)
-38 Monticello, Iowa
-17 Chicago
-21 West Chicago
-30 Aurora, Illinois

NOTE: Brian Peters daughter has been living in Chicago for six years. This is the coldest weather she has experienced. She called Brian yesterday to get recommendations on how to avoid face burn in the extremely low wind chill. She added that your fingers start hurting almost immediately if you take off your gloves.

ALASKA
24 Fairbanks (Yes, that is 24 above.)
-11 Kivalina (The coldest in Alaska this morning.)

FINAL NOTES:
The 24 low in Fairbanks is 64 degrees warmer than some of their low temperatures early in the week. Amazing.

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