This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who spent time outdoors on Christmas Day: Monday will go into the books as among the coldest Christmases on record in the Northland.
The National Weather Service reported the high on Monday in Duluth was 8 below zero. That’s the fourth-lowest Christmas high temperature on record in the city - trailing only 1879, 1892 and 1933, when Duluth reached just 10 below for a high on the holiday.
On Tuesday, Dec. 26 - the Boxing Day holiday in many other parts of the world - things got even colder.
Embarrass was the coldest reporting station in the Northland on Tuesday, with a low of 36 below zero. That follows the 29-below-zero reading the Embarrass weather spotter reported on Christmas morning.
In Cloquet, the low on Tuesday was 13 below zero, while the Duluth airport reported a morning low of 21 below.
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