As we’ve seen this year, Alaska isn’t always uniformly cold in Winter.
February 12, 1989 – The low was 24 in Anchorage and 25 in Fairbanks. That same morning the low was close to that in Tallahassee, Flordia: 28 degrees. Of course, Tallahassee went on to a high of 71 later in the day. The Alaskan cities didn’t make it past 35.
February 12, 1958 – Staying in Tallahassee (as they say on “Jeopardy!”) we remember the most snow that ever fell in a 24 hour period there. It was on this date in 1958, totaling 2.8 inches by the 13th. A ship in the Gulf Of Mexico reported zero visibility in heavy snow that afternoon south of Alabama.
February 12, 2006 – Whiteout conditions were blamed for a 96-car pile up on US 31, thanks to intense snow squalls off Lake Michigan.
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