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On This Day In Weather History - December 23

Local


1989   The third extremely cold day in a row let to a second consecutive day with a low temperature of 23 degrees below zero. After sunrise the cold abated, and the high temperature for the day was set one minute before midnight. Plumbers were busy repairing frozen pipes and waterline breaks, after the thaw began.


National


1989   An epic cold wave that spread as far south as the Gulf Coast was responsible for 122 record low temperatures across the central and eastern United States.