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Feb 10, 2011 at 6:46 PM EDT
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Feb 10, 2011 at 6:46 PM EDT
An icy blast that blew through a large swath of the Plains and the South has brought record low temperatures to some areas, after dumping up to 2 feet of snow.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - An icy blast that blew through a large swath of the Plains and the South has brought record low temperatures to some areas, after dumping up to 2 feet of snow.
The thermometer read minus 31 degrees in Nowata, Okla., today, which breaks the state's previous low record temperature of minus 27 degrees that was set in 1905 and matched in 1930.
Across the border in Arkansas, temperatures dipped to minus 18 in Fayetteville.
The extreme cold is worrying farmers and ranchers. Cattlemen are concerned that pregnant cows might give birth and that newborns could stick to the ground like tongues on a flagpole.
The frigid temperatures followed a powerful blizzard that howled through the nation's midsection yesterday.
At least four people have been killed in traffic accidents that were linked to the second major snowstorm to pass through the nation's midsection in a week.
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