On February 20, 2015, temperatures in Roscommon dropped to –39° at the same time the North Pole was –44°.
As of February 23, more than 84 percent of the Great Lakes were covered in ice, compared to 67 percent on the same date last year.
As of this week, Metro Detroit has averaged 15.6° in February. The coldest February on record was in 1875, with an average of 12.2°. The second coldest was in 1934, with an average of 14.8°. The third coldest came in 1936, with an average of 16°.
Michigan’s coldest-recorded temperature was on February 9, 1934, in Vanderbilt, when the mercury plunged to -51°.
