An Alaska Department of Transportation thermometer recorded a reading of 79 degrees below zero at Jim's River on Saturday morning, then mysteriously stopped transmitting. The state and U.S. record low temperature is -80 at Prospect Creek Camp set on January 23, 1971.
Here is a link to an article from accuweather.com discussing the possible "record-setting temperature that wasn't." The article also mentions the disputed reading from Rochelle in 2009 that would have been a new record low for Illinois. The mercury dropped to -38F in Rochelle on January 16, 2009. This would have broken the state record low temperature of -36F set in Congerville on January 5, 1999. Here is more on the Rochelle reading.
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