CARIBOU (AP) – Caribou already broke the record for snowiest season. Now the northern Maine city has set records for cold three days in a row.
Caribou’s official low temperature was 14 below zero on Tuesday, breaking the record for the date of zero, set in 1939. Caribou also hit 14 below on Monday, which broke the record of minus 5, also set in 1939. On Sunday it hit minus 6, which broke the record by a single degree.
There were even lower readings than that elsewhere across northern Aroostook County. Clayton Lake, for example, had an unofficial reading of 30 below zero on Monday.
For the record, Caribou has had more than 186 inches of snow this season, and the city usually gets more than a foot of snow on average in April.
AP-ES-03-25-08 1432EDT
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