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Holy cow! History — Mother Nature has yet to one-up February 1936’s Big Chill

OPINION — Temperatures plunge. Ice everywhere. Transportation is frozen in its tracks. An Arctic Armageddon.

Winter 2026, right? Think again. The 6 is correct, but the other three digits are off. Because this month is the 90th anniversary of the coldest February on record in the lower 48 states, the Winter of 1936.

How cold was it, you ask? Cold enough that a meteorological phenomenon occurred that hasn’t happened in the 90 winters since. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

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