Relax, this is not one of those 50-mile long lists of low temperatures. There was quite a variation in lows around the state again this morning due to wind or no wind and clouds or no clouds. Here are a few low temperatures from all over:
ALABAMA
28 Muscadine
29 Scrougeout with some heavy frost and freezing fog
32 Millport, Anniston, Troy, Alexander City, Opelika
33 Pinson, Rock Mills, Clanton, Scottsboro Airport, Montgomery, Evergreen
34 Ft. Payne Airport
35 Cottondale, Selma, Fyffe
36 Coker, Shelby County Airport
37 Alabaster/Navajo Pines, Auburn, Tuscaloosa
38 Birmingham, Dothan
39 Springville, Albertville, Muscle Shoals
40 Jasper, Decatur
44 Concord/Hueytown
USA EXTREMES
88 yesterday afternoon in Miami.
3 above this morning at Stanley, Idaho in the heart of the Sawtooth Mountains.
54 below zero at the summit in Greenland (no danger of the ice cap melting today).
46 below zero at Bettles, Alaska with a 9-inch snow cover.
38 below zero was the high in Bettles yesterday.
THE STORY OF CHICKEN
We are not referring to chicken fillet like those cows on TV where they say, “Eat more chickin.” Instead, we are talking about the small town in Alaska that is bitter cold in winter. On January 8 last winter, the official low was 68 below zero at Chicken. On that same morning, it was 65 below at O’Brien Creek and 61 below at Northway Airport. The high at Chicken was 58 below. During that bitter cold, the low temperatures at Fairbanks Airport dropped below 45 below zero for five days in a row.
We will watch Chicken closely all winter. I am mesmerized by that place. (and a lot of other places)
