Phil Bencomo / Lake Superior Magazine
Duluth Waterfront
The Duluth waterfront on a frigid morning. (LSM file photo)
UPDATE, 2/11/14: The record has fallen. "Today, February 11th," says the U.S. National Weather Service, "marks the 23rd day in a row with a low temperature below zero at Duluth."
If it’s going to be this cold for this long, we might as well break a record – and it looks like tomorrow morning Duluth will.
As of today (Monday, Feb. 10), Duluth has tied a 22-day streak of subzero weather, a record number of days set in 1936 (Jan. 17–Feb. 7) and again in 1963 (Jan. 10-31), according to the National Weather Service logs.
The forecast is for temperatures to drop to minus 16° F in the wee hours of Tuesday, Feb. 11, which will put Duluth at 23 days with subzero lows and a new record. That, praise be, may end the streak, though. An Alberta Clipper is headed this way and the low for Wednesday, Feb. 12, is forecast at a balmy 5° on the good side of zero.
While the subzero lows experienced since Jan. 20 have been biting, hitting as low as minus 21°, they themselves have not neared the record setting numbers that dip near minus 40.