The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
January 20 marks 70 years since a mine near Rogers Pass became the coldest spot in the lower 48.
A thirty below zero day on the Rocky Mountain Front forces a herd of cattle into a huddle while a new storm blows in, dropping the temperature even further. (Photo by Rick and Susie Graetz)
Snow had been falling almost continuously for a week, and it was very cold. The temperature had only risen to minus 18 degrees. Finally, late in the day, the snow and wind stopped, skies cleared rapidly, and as the sun set the temperature plummeted. Early the next morning, on Jan. 20, 1954, the Montana and continental 48 states' record cold temperature of minus 70 degrees was observed at a mining...
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