Ninety-two years ago, historians say, the state of Michigan experienced its coldest recorded temperature.
That point was a brutal -51 recorded on Feb. 9, 1934, in the northern Lower Peninsula community of Vanderbilt, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.
“When winter descended in 1934, it wasn’t your average cold snap. Michigan was gripped by an arctic blast that made even seasoned northerners bundle up a little tighter,” relates the website Northern Michigan History.
However, the weather in Detroit that day was not that cold, as the high that day was 4 degrees and the low was -16…