A Bitter 45 Below in Yellowstone Park--Updated Alabama Lows

COLD AIR ROUNDUP
And, I have good news and it is not because I switched to another automobile insurance and saved big bucks.

Surely, surely, our recent cold has totally wiped out the mosquitoes. I am not positive I even saw one during the summer.

Overall, we may have had the heaviest frost of the season this morning. Vic Bell, 3340 Weather Watcher for Black Creek (NE Etowah County) described it well as "a frost that looked like snow"

ALABAMA LOWS (Updated at 12:20 to post final lows for Birmingham and Huntsville)
18 at Black Creek (17.8 to be exact)
19 in Fort Payne and Hartselle
20 in Desoto State Park (at Little River Canyon)
21 in Florence and at Gadsden Airport
22 in Pinson, Albertville, Alabaster, Jasper
23 in Decatur, Muscle Shoals, Cullman, Meridianville, Munford, Vinemont, Leeds, Moulton, Talladega
24 in Parrish, Athens, Huntsville
25 at Birmingham Airport
26 in Anniston, Tuscaloosa, Helena, Reform, Wadley
27 in Birmingham, Selma, Madison, Guntersville, Wedowee
29 at Mentone, Northport
31 in Eutaw and Troy
32 atop Mt. Cheaha
33 at Montgomery

Because of a temperature inversion, it was 10 degrees colder at Fort Payne Airport (19) than it was not far away at Mentone (29) atop Lookout Mountain.

In East Alabama, Anniston Airport, with 26 was 6 degrees colder than atop Mt. Cheaha, Alabama's highest elevation where it was 32.

The above lows are as of 6 am. It is possible that some locations chilled another degree or so between 6 am and 7 am.

NATIONAL (LOWER 48 STATES)
The NWS confirms a bitter 45 below zero at the west entrance of Yellowstone Park. (West Yellowstone, Montana) It broke the previous December 7 low of -39 in 1927. Here is a roundup:

45 below zero in Yellowstone Park (West Entrance)
26 below in Bozeman and Wolf Point, Montana
29 below in Big Piney, Wyoming
23 below in Casper
26 below in Pinedale, Wyoming
31 below in Crandall Creek, Wyoming
35 below in Farson, Wyoming (the low for the state)
30 below zero at Tensleep, Wyoming (what a name
27 below in Jackon, Wyoming (gateway to the Tetons)
25 below at Laramie, Wyoming (home of the University of Wyoming where Pat Dye once coached)
19 below in Cheyenne
24 below in Saratoga, Wyoming
20 below in Meeker, Colorado
7 below in Denver

ALASKA
29 below in Notak
29 below in Beaver
25 below at Salmon Trout
20 below in Deadhorse

The bitter cold that was holding on over Eastern Alaska has moved out and headed south. It is interesting to note that Beaver, Alaska, where it was a bitter 53 below a few days ago, had a low this morning of "only" 29 below.

Chandalar Lake had a low yesterday morning of 50 below buy was an even zero there in the pre-dawn hours today.

Interesting that Chandalar Lake reported 74 below zero at mid-day yesterday. Howsomever, we are 99.9% certain that was an error with the automated weather observation station. Otherwise, that would have been within 6 degrees of the all time low in North America.

Life goes on...