LA GRANDE, Ore. — The temperature in Eastern Oregon recently matched its record low of 9 degrees below zero.
The Observer reports that La Grande’s record low for Jan. 5 was tied Thursday morning. National Weather Service Pendleton meteorologist Mike Murphy says the city’s temperature also hit negative 9 on Jan. 5, 2004.
Thursday’s temperature was lowest Jan. 5 temperature on record but only the eighth-lowest for La Grande in January. The National Weather Service says the month’s all-time low was set Jan. 31, 1996, at 17 degrees below zero.
Other cities in Eastern Oregon reached bone-chilling temperatures Thursday morning. NWS says it recorded temperatures of negative 21 in Wallowa and negative 11 in Cove and at the Joseph Airport.
