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-32! Wednesday’s temps shatter record
Published 12:00 p.m., February 21, 2008
Wednesday was a record-setting day in Fergus Falls and other parts of Otter Tail County, where temperatures fell into the minus 30s.
Vince Godon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, said Devils Lake, N.D. experienced the regions lowest temperature Wednesday, bottoming out at 34-below.
In Fergus Falls, Wednesday’s low was 32-below, the coldest temperature for Feb. 20 since -18 was recorded in 1963.
Chilly temperatures meant brisk business for groups like Beyer Towing.
“We are busy,” said owner Paul Beyer. “Actually, the last two months have been pretty busy but the past two days have been worse.”
Beyer estimated wreckers received 20-some calls for jumps Wednesday, with many cars requiring a ride inside.
“Many of them don’t run and you have to haul them to a garage,” he said. “By the time we get there, they’re all goofed up and the only way they’ll start is if they warm up.”
Beyer Towing has also received several calls from semis passing through the area. Many are transporting produce from southern states, Beyer said, with thick fuel that freezes in colder temperatures.
Last week’s drifting snow brought Beyer employees out to ditches along the Interstate, where Beyer said drivers don’t pay enough attention to emergency and towing vehicles.
“People plain and simple are going too fast,” he said. “That’s our biggest problem. When we’re working out there, they’re speeding past us at 80 mph.”
Looking to the rest of the week, Godon said Otter Tail County can expect warmer temperatures, beginning with a high of 10 degrees in Fergus Falls Thursday.
“Actually, we’re looking at a little bit of a warming trend going into the weekend,” he said. “We’ll see highs in the upper 20s, lower 30s, which will feel like a heat wave compared to the temperatures we’ve seen.”
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"Wednesday’s low was 32-below, the coldest temperature for Feb. 20 since -18 was recorded in 1963." ?????????
Posted by bucksteel (anonymous) on February 21, 2008 at 2:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The sentence as written implies that -18 is colder than -32. A more accurate sentence would be "Wednesday's low was -32, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Fergus Falls for Feb 20. The previous record for Feb 20, -18, was set in 1963."
Posted by The_Nick (anonymous) on February 21, 2008 at 6:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
-bucksteel
There is nothing wrong with the sentence. It makes it perfectly clear that -32 is the record low, before that -18 was the record.
Posted by James (anonymous) on February 22, 2008 at 9:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The_Nick is right.
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