Record Cold Temps, Snow, Rolling Blackouts Hit Area
Record Cold Temps, Snow, Rolling Blackouts Hit Area

A few motorists brave the brutal conditions early Sunday on Broadway Ave., in Sulphur, as a record-setting cold wave, bitter wind chills and about four to six inches of snow hit the area. On Monday, President’s Day, few people ventured out as schools and many businesses were closed. The temperature in Sulphur hit a record-setting -14 degrees early Tuesday with a wind chill of about -25 degrees throughout the morning, making outside work dangerous. In photo at right, in inset, deer seem oblivious to the snow and cold temperatures as they wander across the road near the West 12th Street entrance to the Park.

Record Cold Temps, Snow, Rolling Blackouts Hit Area

The coldest air in Murray County’s history plunged in over the weekend and topped it off with blowing and drifting snow Sunday and there is more winter misery on the way, forecasters warned. The Oklahoma Mesonet Station, north of Sulphur, recorded a -14 degree temperature early Tuesday, shattering by six degrees ...

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Sulphur Times-Democrat

P.O. Box 131
Sulphur, OK 73086
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