Friday, February 3, 2012

Who Says February Isn't the Coldest Winter Month???

Perhaps we often think of January as being the coldest winter month in this part of the world; however, on this date in 1947, a little place in Yukon called Snag, recorded North America's coldest temperature ever at -81.4 degrees.

Interestingly, the U.S. record coldest temperature ever appeared to be in jeopardy the other day in Alaska.  But, Prospect Creek still holds the record at -79.8 degrees. By the way, here's the article about that 'almost record breaker'...Click here to find out what happened.

The coldest temperature ever recorded on the earth occurred at the Russian Vostok station in Antarctica. The temperature was -128.6 degrees set on July 21, 1983.

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