"NOAA: U.S. breaks or ties 115 cold and sets 63 new snowfall records
Of course many of you that live in this weather already know this, but there is an early start to winter this year, not only in the USA, but also in London, where it snowed in October for the first time in over 70 years.
Yeah, I'm aware of how cold it is here.
So far, no mention of this broadly distributed U.S. record event in the mainstream media. There are a few individual mentions or record lows in Florida. See this Google News search.
Yes, I'm aware of that, too.
Here, from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), is a list of these new or tied records for October 29th, 2008.
I find the -25 below in Alaska interesting, since it bested the old record by 4 degrees.
Here are the 115 new or tied low temperature records:--MORE--"
