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8
8:31PM | January 8, 2010 | comments: 1
How low can you go?
Sorry...just realized I've been facebooking and twittering rather than blogging for....uh...months now? Follow me on FB and twitter, and you'll get daily updates!
Anyway, let's catch up: if you haven't been outside since Wednesday, an Arctic blast has gripped most of the nation. We dropped to 16 this morning, and it wasn't even a record. I think as long as it's going to be this cold, we might as well break records and have something to show for our suffering! Well, that might just happen tomorrow. The record low is 12, set in 1977. We will easily drop to the teens again...will we hit 11 and break the record? We could.
Here are some other noteworthy records, which I like to call the "Cold, Hard Facts", courtesy of the researchers (probably Daniel) at the National Weather Service:
1. The most recent prolonged cold spell was 85 hours of sub-freezing weather Jan 14-Jan 18, 2007.
2.The last time we had two days in a row of lows in the teens: Dec 8-9, 2005
3. The last time we had two days in a row of highs in the 20s: Dec 22-23, 1998 (we had a high of 46 yesterday and 30 today).
4. Last time it was this cold? Feb 4, 1996 when it was 8.
Bob Goosmann will have some good (warmer) news for you this weekend at 5:30 and 9pm on Ch 33!
Anyway, let's catch up: if you haven't been outside since Wednesday, an Arctic blast has gripped most of the nation. We dropped to 16 this morning, and it wasn't even a record. I think as long as it's going to be this cold, we might as well break records and have something to show for our suffering! Well, that might just happen tomorrow. The record low is 12, set in 1977. We will easily drop to the teens again...will we hit 11 and break the record? We could.
Here are some other noteworthy records, which I like to call the "Cold, Hard Facts", courtesy of the researchers (probably Daniel) at the National Weather Service:
1. The most recent prolonged cold spell was 85 hours of sub-freezing weather Jan 14-Jan 18, 2007.
2.The last time we had two days in a row of lows in the teens: Dec 8-9, 2005
3. The last time we had two days in a row of highs in the 20s: Dec 22-23, 1998 (we had a high of 46 yesterday and 30 today).
4. Last time it was this cold? Feb 4, 1996 when it was 8.
Bob Goosmann will have some good (warmer) news for you this weekend at 5:30 and 9pm on Ch 33!
Comments: 1
You are the best meteorologist in the Metroplex Fort Worth - Dallas area.
we love you, thanks Rebecca.
Giuseppe