When low temperature records are broken in International Falls, MN., a town known as the "Icebox of the Nation", you know something unusual is happening. The mercury plummeted to 35 degrees this morning at the International Falls airport easily breaking the previous record for July 13th of 39 degrees set in 2007.
In fact the near freeze was almost of historic proportions, as the coldest July temperature ever recorded in the northern Minnesota city was 34 degrees on 7/05/2001 and 7/07/1997.
Minnesota wasn't the only area to experience the extraordinary mid-summer chill as readings fell into the low to mid 30s across portions of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan as well.
Other overnight lows of note from July 13th, 2009 include:
30F Leota, MI
33F Lakewood, WI
34F Colby, WI
34F St. James, MN
34F Embarrass, MN
64F Chicago, IL (O'Hare Airport)
90F Phoenix, AZ
