On February 3, 1996, the town of Elkader, in Clayton County, tied a state record with a frigid temperature of -47*.
**The town of Washta (Cherokee County) also claims that it was also -47* in 1912.
A day later, the city of Tower, MN, set a record of -60*...
The high temps in January weren't anything to get too excited about, and thankfully it didn't get terribly cold...but all that is about to change for the first weekend of February.
In January, the mercury in Waterloo failed to get higher than 40*...