{"id":818,"date":"2021-02-16T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2021-02-17T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:50:08","slug":"coldest-in-72-years-today-at-dfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"COLDEST IN 72 YEARS TODAY AT DFW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The official low this morning was -2\u00b0F. That is 2 degrees below zero. This shatters the daily record low for Feb 16th of 12\u00b0F set in 1903. This is 42 degrees below the normal low of 40\u00b0F for this date. The last time DFW dropped below zero was on December 23, 1989, and the temperature dropped to 1 below. You have to go all the way back to January 31, 1949 to get to the last time we were 2 below zero, a whopping 72 years ago. This makes the 5th time the mercury has dropped below zero at DFW. The other times were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February 12, 1899: -8\u00b0F (all time coldest temperature at DFW)<br>January 18, 1930: -1\u00b0F<br>January 31, 1949: -2\u00b0F<br>December 23, 1989: -1\u00b0F<br>February 16, 2021: -2\u00b0F<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the high of 18\u00b0F recorded at DFW today, also broke the daily record high temperature for Feb 16th. The previous record was 21\u00b0F also set in 1903.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official low this morning was -2\u00b0F. That is 2 degrees below zero. This shatters the daily record low for Feb 16th of 12\u00b0F set in 1903. This is 42 degrees below the normal low of 40\u00b0F for this date. The last time DFW dropped below zero was on December 23, 1989, and the temperature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}