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In 2021, old man winter went on a rampage and delivered the first of 12 consecutive days below freezing for most of Kansas.  The first front arrived on the afternoon of 5th with a temperatures at Wichita Eisenhower Airport of 55 degrees and then steadily dropped for the next 52 straight hours.  There were a number of periods of light snow and freezing drizzle which covered the area from the 7th through 10th of February with either a thin layer of ice or around 1 to 1 and a half inches of snow.  Temperatures hovered around 9 to 12 degrees during this time which is more than 30 degrees below normal.  Old man winter got angrier that weekend and brought another round of snow on the 12th through the 14th of February.  As much as 6 inches of snow fell over Southeast Kansas.  Temperatures plummeted further to a hideously cold 17 below zero for and high temperatures near zero.  This is a departure from normal of nearly 40 degrees in most areas of Kansas.

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Oymyakon, Russia, located in far Northeastern Siberia, is considered the world's coldest permanently inhabited location. This was definitely true in 1933, when the low temperature was 90 below zero. This is 10 degrees colder than the lowest temperature on record for the U.S. which is 80 below recorded in Prospect Creek, Alaska on January 23, 1971. Prospect Creek is located 180 miles north of Fairbanks.
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