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One thing about the cold weather and Chicago — it’s not new. While the record took place Jan. 20, 1985, many of the city’s lowest recorded temperatures came from arctic snaps in 1872 and 1899.
CHICAGO - We are hours away from the coldest air since the third week of January. Highs today will reach 30 before the cold front rips through this afternoon. It will be cloudy with some flurries ...
In Hastings, Nebraska, a high temperature of -2 degrees was recorded on Tuesday, which shattered the previous cold high of February 18 of 5 degrees in 1993. The average for the city is 41 degrees.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago city limits is −27 °F (−33 °C) at O'Hare on January 20, 1985, [18] though unofficial temperatures as low as −3 °F (−19 °C) have been recorded at Chicago Aurora Airport in far western suburbs and in the rural areas to the west of Chicago. [43]
In 1940, the US Army Air Force designated Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska as a cold-weather testing facility. Because sufficiently cold weather was not predictable and often of short duration, Ashley McKinley suggested a refrigerated airplane hangar be built. The facilities were constructed at Eglin Field. [4] The first tests started in May 1947.
AccuWeather meteorologists are tracking a burst of Arctic air that will give much of the central United States a taste of mid-winter cold as temperatures plunge to their lowest levels yet this ...
509th Bomb Wing Museum, Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri [3] [failed verification] Air Force Rescue Memorial Museum – Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico (closed January 1990) [4] Beale Air Force Base Museum – Beale Air Force Base, east of Marysville, California (closed in February 1995) [5]
The high temperature in Washington, DC, on Wednesday could top out in the mid-50s — 10 to 15 degrees lower than normal for mid-October. Atlanta could struggle to break into the low 60s on ...