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Updated: 5:34 PM Feb 4, 2009
Mt. LeConte Lodge records coldest temp in more than 20 years
The temperature at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Mt. LeConte Lodge dropped to 22 degrees below zero Tuesday night, and park officials say that's the coldest temperature recorded there since 1986.
Posted: 5:34 PM Feb 4, 2009 |
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SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The temperature at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Mt. LeConte Lodge dropped to 22 degrees below zero Tuesday night, and park officials say that's the coldest temperature recorded there since 1986.
Bob Miller with the park service says it was also the fourth coldest day since officials started keeping records in 1978.
"Besides being 22 below, the Park's closest weather station with wind
measuring equipment - Cove Mtn in Sevier Couty, Tenn. - reported gusts up to 45 mph (Tuesday) night," Miller says. "That works out to a wind chill of -60 degrees. At 60 below exposed flesh will be frostbitten in four minutes."
Miller says, the coldest reading on record was -32 degrees on Jan 21, 1985.
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