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In 1983, the low temperature in Wichita plunged to 10 below zero. This marked the 10th day in December that the mercury had fallen below zero which set a record for sub zero low temperatures in any month for the Air Capital. Wichita would experience, by far, the coldest December on record with an average monthly temperature of 16.3 degrees, undercutting the second place occupant, 2000, during which an average of 23.9 degrees occurred, by a 7.6 degree margin. && In 1862, the U.S.S. Monitor sank in a winter storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

 


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