[dsamarin]

Meanwhile, Hastings, Nebraska reached -30 degrees Fahrenheit, its all-time coldest temperature, and the South Pole shivered with an average temperature of -78 degrees over the last six months, the coldest on record according to the Washington Post.

[samspenc]

Ditto, the US North West, where I now live, has had one of its coldest winters on record. It's been heavily snowing with temperature well below freezing the past few days, which is almost unheard of at this time of the year in these parts.