Temperatures dropped below minus 40 in two northern Colorado towns Tuesday morning during the worst hours of the four-day arctic blast that hit the state over the weekend.
said the towns could have been the coldest places in the country this morning, including Alaska.
Meteorologists as low as 44 degrees below zero in Fraser Flats, just south of Tabernash in Grand County, early Tuesday morning. About 30 miles north, on the other side of Lake Granby, Grand Lake saw similar lows and temperatures were just colder than minus 40.
As of 5 a.m. Tuesday, the coldest spot in the country was four miles north of Grand Lake, which hit minus 39 degrees, according to from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Those preliminary numbers will be updated as the national team receives local reports and double-checks temperature readings.
Colorado’s coldest temps recorded Tuesday during arctic blast
- Minus 44 in Fraser Flats
- Minus 39 north of Grand Lake
- Minus 31 near Gunnison
- Minus 25 in Kremmling and Craig
- Minus 20 west of Leadville
- Minus 22 in Steamboat Springs
- Minus 14 in Fort Collins and Greeley
- Minus 18 in Broomfield and northern Denver
- Minus 15 at Denver International Airport
- Minus 16 near La Junta and Lamar on the Eastern Plains
- And minus 11 near Burlington on the Colorado-Kansas border
