Wow

From John Christy’s Jan-Feb climate report:

“You know it’s bad when the National Weather Service is debating whether the U.S. all-time low temperature record (-80° Fahrenheit) was broken. It’s a debate because after a thermometer in Alaska hit -79 it stopped reporting for several hours, probably because it was so cold the batteries stopped working.  (No one knows if the batteries may have been failing gradually, reporting readings that were erroneously too cold before it stopped.)  In any case, several other Alaskan stations did set record cold temperatures.”

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