The coldest temperatures in decades hit a large portion of the Central and Southern Plains on Tuesday morning, with lows dropping below zero all the way down to .
Hundreds of record low temperatures have been set with , and many locations Tuesday morning saw their coldest temperatures seen in decades, if ever.
Here are some of the cities setting records:
— Oklahoma City: -14 degrees Fahrenheit, coldest since 1899, second-coldest temperature ever. (Oklahoma didn’t even become a state until 1907.)
— Dallas: -2 degrees Fahrenheit, coldest since 1930, second-coldest temperature ever.
— Houston: 13 degrees Fahrenheit, coldest since 1989.
— San Antonio, Texas: 12 degrees Fahrenheit, coldest since 1989.
— Little Rock, Arkansas: -1 degrees Fahrenheit, coldest since 1989.
— Fayetteville, Arkansas: -20 degrees Fahrenheit, all-time coldest temperature.
— Hastings, Nebraska: -30 degrees Fahrenheit, all-time coldest temperature.
