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In 1926, the temperature at Yellowstone National Park plunged to 9 degrees below zero. It was the coldest reading on record in the month of September for the 48 contiguous United States. In 1989, record cold spread from the Rockies to the Appalachians as 47 cities set record low temperatures for the date. Lows of 34 degrees at Jackson, Kentucky, 36 degrees at Midland, Texas, and 38 in Abilene, Texas, were all record lows for each of these cities during the month of September. && In 1972, lightning struck and killed a man in Waldport, Oregon when he was carrying 35 sticks of dynamite.

 


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