How Cold Was It?

Montanans likely experienced some of the coldest temperatures on the planet in early December.

According to the National Weather Service in Great Falls, Havre set a daily record on Saturday. At its coldest, the temperature hit minus 39 degrees. 

According to Victor Proton, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Glasgow, temperatures of 43 degrees below zero were reported at the Edgar G. Obie Airport in Chinook about 22 miles from Havre.

Fort Peck was 37 below on Saturday. The Valley County town shattered its previous Dec. 7, record of minus 27, set in 1956.

Williston, N.D., bottomed out at 25 below zero, Greybull, Wyo. set a daily record at minus 21 and Boise, Idaho, hit 6 below.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the mercury stayed above zero, at 15 degrees.

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