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COLD SNAP
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Temperatures Plunge to Record Lows Across Montana
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By BEACON STAFF
cold, power outages or boiler issues. temperatures. Spokesperson Riley
LBigfork School District closed all of Polumbus said the resort’s cutof
ast week was one of the coldest
its sites Feb. 5 as a precaution after mark is 20 below, which is when ski-
periods on record in Montana.
a winter storm warning was issued. ers could sufer frostbite just from
Subzero temperatures gripped School was in session the next day.
riding the chairlifts.
future
the state, setting historic marks, Montana State University Bill- “We want to keep everyone safe,”
causing schools to close temporarily ings canceled classes Feb. 6 over is- she said. “We don’t want to get in a
and residents to bundle up or hiber- sues with heating the campus.
situation where we have a mechani-
nate until warmer weather arrived.
Whiteish Mountain Resort cal issue when we have people on the
Several school districts across closed Chair One for most of Feb. chairlifts.”
the state cancelled classes or delayed 4 but kept other chairlifts running Here’s a breakdown of last week’s
the start of the school day due to the
while oicials monitored the frigid
polar temperatures:

-21°
Temperature in Kalispell on Feb. 6,
breaking the 1975 record of -18

KALISPELL
-34°
Temperature in Great Falls on
Feb. 6, breaking the city’s previous
record of -28 set in 1893
GREAT FALLS
-23
°
Temp in Missoula on Feb. 6,
breaking the record of -17 set in MISSOULA
1899

-50
° Temperature in Elk Park north of
Butte on Feb. 6, the lowest in the
state not factoring in wind chill
ELK PARK
-36
° Temperature in Butte, ive degrees BUTTE
colder than the 1933 record
LIVINGSTON

-56° Livingston’s wind-chill tempera- WEST YELLOWSTONE
ture on Feb. 6

-36° West Yellowstone temperature
on Feb. 6, tying the previous
100-year-old record

FLATHEAD VALLEY TEMPERATURES FEBRUARY 6, 2014

KALISPELL -21° HOT SPRINGS -21°
MARION -32° NOXON -12°

COLUMBIA FALLS -28° WHITEFISH -17°
ESSEX -18° STRYKER -28°
FERNDALE
-15° EUREKA -25°

-40° LIBBY -24° SWAN LAKE
-10° TROY -15°
POLSON
ROLLINS -11°

SOURCE: MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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