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"Cold Sunday" was a Meteorological event which took place on January 17 , 1982 , when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada and plunged temperatures across much of the United States far below existing all-time record lows. The phenomenon was caused by an unusually strong High Pressure System over Saskatchewan with a core pressure of 31.15 inHg (105.5 KPa ), a level rarely seen outside of permanent Polar areas such as Siberia and Antarctica . A recent Snow fall had left the ground without any way to hold on to its heat and temperatures dropped precipitously. This mass of cold air was so strong that the temperature at Mequon, Wisconsin dropped to −40 °F (−40 °C). The previous record was −28 °F (−33 °C) and temperatures below −20 °F (−29 °C) had only been felt there six times in the previous 100 years. The lowest temperature recorded that day in the United States was −52 °F (−47 °C), measured near Tower, Minnesota . Below is a partial list of cities which set all-time record low temperatures in the to New Jersey to Mississippi broke records, and the vast majority of the records set on "Cold Sunday" still stand. The cold was not confined to the night, either. In Princeton, New Jersey , and Cincinnati, Ohio , the ''daytime high temperatures'' were 2 °F (−17 °C) and −9 °F (−23 °C), respectively. While much of central and south Florida escaped the deep freeze, enough damage was done to Citrus Crop s in the north-central part of the state to write off the 1982 harvest as a disaster.
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