We’re in for bitterly cold weather this weekend and next week, but it should not be as cold as it was 41 years ago.
One of the coldest arctic outbreaks on record for the eastern United States arrived in the Carolinas during the second half of January 1985. That sent temperatures below zero for much of the state on the morning of Jan. 21, 1985.
Several locations in the state recorded their all-time coldest temperatures. That includes Mount Mitchell, which measured the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state.
Wilmington dropped to 5 degrees that morning. While that set a record for the date, the Port City’s all-time record low is 0 from Christmas morning 1989 after a winter storm that made for rare white Christmas along the coast…