This Day in Weather History February 13

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

1905: The first half of February was intensely cold with many stations across Iowa recording temperatures below zero for days at a time. The 13th was particularly frigid with morning low temperatures of -33 F at Allerton and Greenfield, -34 F at Grundy Center and Newton, -35 F at Plover and Zearing, and -37 F at Harlan, Lenox, and Thurman. At Des Moines the low temperature of -26 F tied the all-time February record at that location, which was initially set just 11 days earlier on the 2nd.

Source: National Weather Service