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Posted on 12/27/2017 5:24:04 PM PST by blam
International Falls, Minnesota woke up to a temperature of -36F at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning breaking the previous record low for Dec. 27 of -32F set in 1924, according to the National Weather Service office in Duluth. That -36 is the actual temperature, not a wind chill!
According to state records, the -36 morning in International Falls is only about halfway to the state record low temperature of -60 in Tower, Minnesota on Feb. 2, 1996. The all-time record low for International Falls is -55F, set in January 1909.
Wednesday morning, low temperatures in the Twin Cities metro ranged from -7 in St. Paul to -13 in nearby Lake Elmo. Minnesota is stuck in a deep freeze with single-digital highs and subzero lows hanging around into next week. Check the updated 7-day forecast at fox9.com/weather and download the Fox 9 Weather App to track temperatures and snow in your specific location.
Here’s a look at Wednesday morning temperate around Minnesota, as recorded by the National Weather Service at 6 a.m.
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I used to walk to school in that kind of weather.....Uphill.......Both ways!
poor bullwinkle gonna freeze his bleeps off
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I guess that’s at least a little bit of positive for both winter and summer. -8, I am not so sure I could handle that so well in south Alabama.
It’s nice. Too bad we have the terrible problem of not knowing what to wear. It’s hot then it’s cold... it’s yes then it’s no...
I remember more cold weather as a kid. More in the range of -20 to -30 for brief stretches. Seldom gets that cold anymore. This year may be a bit of an exception.
LOL, pretty much!!
Best post of the day!
Heh. That's a first for me :)
The first time I ever visited International Falls in the summer time, I immediately got the impression that the place must be ridiculously cold in the winter. Something about the air and the surroundings just made it feel like a -40 day was coming in the not-too-distant future.
Thanks, that is a great consolation..... but for real consolation I think will visit Jupiter.... avg temp -234F
You’re probably the only other person I’ve seen here on FR who had ever been to Val d’Or. I drove through there once in the summertime en route from Montreal over to Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
Hawley Lake, AZ is often the coldest, too. Yes, Arizona!
Drove across Wyoming on I-80 today. Not particularly cold, but what a WIND! 60 mph gusts from Rock Springs to Cheyenne. Surprisingly, not a single overturned vehicle despite those winds and lots of blowing snow and ice.
They’re both in Koochiching County, home of Whatsamatta U.
Yeah, very quiet sun. This may be just the beginning.
It’s my understanding that the town/region is known...or was once known...for mining.Don’t know if you’re Canadian or not but regardless of nationality -40 (F or C) is damn cold so you might want to try it in winter! :-)
Yep. A large body of water doesn’t lose heat as quickly as a land mass.
Val d'Or means "Valley of Gold" in French.
If you look at a map of that area in Canada, you'll see a collection of population centers stretching from northeastern Ontario to northwestern Quebec. It runs roughly from Kirkland Lake, Ontario over to Val d'Or. The cluster of towns may seem out of place when you look at them surrounded by vast remote regions.
That area is called the "Cadillac Break," a rift in the earth's crust where lots of metallic elements can be found close to the surface and extracted at relatively low cost. The place has been a major mining center for decades.
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