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February 2, 1950: Temperature in Portland Drops to Minus Three

February 2, 2011 by Dave Leave a Comment

Table excerpted from February 3, 1950 Oregonian articleThe weather in the first two months of 1950 was awful statewide. January was an extremely cold month and featured frequent snowstorms and some of the heaviest one-day snow falls ever recorded.

And then February arrived.

At 7:45am on Thursday, February 2, 1950 the temperature dropped to -3 degrees Fahrenheit at the Portland Airport, the all time record low for Portland.

Think that’s cold? The Eastern Oregon town of Seneca got down to -40 on that day, Chemult -30, and Pendleton recorded -25.

The previous Portland record of -2 had endured since 1888 (the temperature reading then had been taken on the top of the Kamm building at SW 1st and Pine).

Filed Under: History, Nature, Portland, This Day in History

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