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Alaska's interior is well known for brutal cold and 54 years ago today its temperature plunged to America's all-time record low. The temperature hit minus 80 degrees at Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska ...
In Alaska, the coldest time of year is usually in January. ... set their all-time records in January, including Chicago (Jan. 20, 1985), Cleveland (Jan. 19, 1994) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (Jan. 21 ...
Alaska holds the all-time U.S. record. The mercury plummeted to 80 degrees below zero on Jan. 23, 1971, in Prospect Creek, north of Fairbanks.
Some of the hottest and coldest temperatures in Alaska occur around the area near Fairbanks. The summers can have temperatures reaching into the 90s °F (near 34 °C), while in the winter, the temperature can fall below −50 °F (−45.6 °C), and in rare cases, below −60 °F (−51.1 °C).
Average January low and high temperatures at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC) are 11 / 23 °F (−11.7 / −5.0 °C) with an average winter snowfall of 75.59 inches, or 1.92 meters. Farther afield at the Campbell Airstrip is another weather station recording colder night temperatures in both summer and winter. [4]
Several all-time record low temperatures were set during a historic cold wave at the end of January. On January 30, temperatures at the Quad Cities International Airport bottomed out at −33 °F (−36 °C), which set an all-time record low. [70] Other cities that set all-time record lows include Mather, Wisconsin, Rockford, Illinois and Cedar ...
Chicago (11.3 inches), Cleveland (18.4 inches), Salt Lake City (12.7 inches) and St. Louis (5.7 inches), are some of the larger cities where January is the snowiest month.
This was preceded by unusually warm weather in the eastern U.S. in December 1984, suggesting that there was a build-up of cold air that was suddenly released from the Arctic, a meteorological event known as a mobile polar high. Mount Mitchell, in North Carolina recorded an all time record low of −34 °F (−37 °C).