No local records broken in weekend cold snap
Hungry Horse News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years AGO
While temperatures in the Flathead plummeted over the weekend, no records were broken at Glacier Park International Airport.
The temperature dipped to 14 below zero on Dec. 9. The record was 20 below in 1972. On Dec. 8, it dropped to 13 below, but the record set in 2005 was 19 below. On Dec. 7, it dropped to 4 below, but the record, also set in 2005, was 16 below.
Temperatures elsewhere were much colder than in the valley. The temperature in Polebridge dipped to 30 below on Dec. 7, 23 below on Dec. 8 and a comparatively balmy 6 below on Dec. 9.
On the east side of the Park, the temperature was 26 below on Dec. 6, 34 below on Dec. 7, 1 below on Dec. 8 and 3 degrees above on Dec. 9.
The weather is expected to warm substantially by the end of the week, with highs at or above freezing by week’s end.
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