One of the people who helped to record Utah's all-time low temperature in 1985 caught up with FOX 13 News about his experience in the frigid conditions as Utah saw the coldest temperature in the country earlier this week. JFRANCHIREPORTS
Earlier this week, Peter Sinks, Utah recorded the day's lowest temperature in the continental United States at -63.4 degrees Fahrenheit.The bone chilling temperature wasn’t quite as cold as the -69.3 degrees Fahrenheit recorded at Peter Sinks on February 1, 1985.“We thought there has got to be a place up in the mountains that is very cold,” said Zane Stephens, a meteorologist who attended Utah State University. “When I saw it [Peter Sinks] on a U.S.G.S.
Stephens said they lobbied officials to install equipment to gather temperature readings and eventually were supplied instruments by Logan, Utah based company Campbell Scientific.Stephens and a team of weather enthusiasts headed up to Peter Sinks to gather their equipment. While extremely cold, that reading was too warm to break the all-time record low of -69.7 set in Rogers Pass, Mont. in 1954.“I think 75 below is doable maybe in the next 20 years,” he said.
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