Yesterday at Peter's Sink (a mountain hollow between Logan and Bear Lake in N.E. Utah) the automated weather station recorded 43.6 degrees. BELOW ZERO.

Peter's Sink is long known as being the coldest place in Utah. Yesterday's reading set an all-time low for the month of October, but temps there have hit -69 as recently as 1985. That's the second lowest temp ever in the Continental US.

Congratulations?

Ouch.

And I thought -5 yesterday in Idaho Falls was cold. I stand corrected.

I feel warmer just thinking about it.

Elevation there?


Balmy 20F here this morning.

I bet there's no sale goin' on for hand warmers...

That would make my peter sink too.

It's only 77° here

That's chilly for October. But don't worry global warming is going to kick in any minute and kill all the polar bears and sink Hawaii. .

Global warming is coming, next June.

Yikes!

Come on Global Warming! Don't fail us now!

witches tit, meet brass brasierre!

That globular warming thing is a bitch.

Record low here last night. 19 degrees for the coldest Oct 30th in our local recorded history for that date.

Or of my great regrets in life is that I didn't do more in my youth to bring on global warming.

-40F ambient is the coldest it got here last winter.



Starting machinery sucks, that and water.

I am so glad I left Calgary in 2009 after five winters there...We would head to our place in north Idaho just sixty miles south of BC to warm up.

We beat the old record for coldest October temp by 13 degrees.

This global warming thing is getting out of hand!

Cold air loves holes. I wonder how much warmer it was 1000' higher. 60 or 80 degrees would not be surprising .

it use to get a lot colder than that when I lived in Minnesota...

but then I'm talking about between my soon to be ex wife and me.....

that was even during the summer time...

Coldest temp I've ever experienced was in Chicoutimi Quebec back in the early 70s...

the locals were telling me it hit 72 below that night... I had left my car running all night locked up..

got back the next night into Franconia Notch in New Hampshire, and it hit like 50 below...

that felt warm compared to the previous night up in Chicoutimi P.Q.

for the last 10 days or so, the days and night have been wonderful here in Southern Oregon...cloudless blue skies..

32 here at 4:00 am

Low 40's in NOLA.

Low 30's in NW La.

Peter Sinks is very close to the Idaho border so I checked to see if Idaho's record cold was anywhere in the area. It's not. The record is -60 in 1943 at Island Park which is hundreds of miles north.

OMG.............

12 degrees in Helena right now.

Almost every winter, some TV producer gets the bright idea to send a crew to Peter's Sink to film a thermometer. Invariably, the camera crew gets there, hikes down to the bottom of the sink - and then discovers that their camera batteries are frozen and dead. Frostbite ensues - in the atmosphere at the producer's office.

It was 11 yesterday AM here in Sandy ( up on the bench above Salt Lake Valley) Another place said 14, I don't know, beautiful day though!

Might not have varied at all, Jim. I have two digital weather stations at my house, and they always differ by two or three degrees. (If I were a climate whacko, I'd always quote the high one and claim it proves global warming.)