Temperatures plummet, hit freezing as far south as Alabama

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Temperatures plummet, hit freezing as far south as Alabama

By ROGER PETTERSON The Associated Press 10/9/00 10:05 AM

The bottom fell out of thermometers Monday with temperatures hitting record cold levels from Minnesota to Florida, including readings at the freezing point as far south as Alabama.

"I miss the hot weather I was complaining about just a couple of weeks ago," said Marlene Anderson, 67, of Lawrenceville, Ga., where the low was 36. "I was just looking over my winter clothes and thinking, 'Gee, I need to go out and get some fleece."'

Anderson raises Cavalier spaniels for show. "They like to go out and sniff around, but when it's this cold, they're ready to come right back inside."

It was the coldest Oct. 9 in more than a century at St. Cloud, Minn., with a low of 16, and Springfield, Ill., where thermometers bottomed out at 25. Previous records for the date in both cities had been established in 1895, the National Weather Service said.

Record books also were rewritten in Alabama, where Huntsville dropped to 29, and in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, the weather service said. Records were tied in New York state.

Apple pickers had to wait an hour for frost to melt off the trees before they could start work at the Altamont Orchards near Albany, N.Y., where temperatures were around 30.

The late start will mean a late day, said orchard manager John Abbruzzese. "Instead of knocking off at five, we'll work 'til six, six-thirty," he said.

The cold air also touched off snow showers around the Great Lakes when it started flowing southward during the weekend.

Six inches of snow fell on the mountains lining New Hampshire's Franconia Notch, making a big hit with tourists who turned out to see autumn leaves.

A foot of snow blanketed parts of northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula on during the weekend.

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-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), October 09, 2000

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