What a difference a week makes—temperature tailspin eases
Two hundred seventy-five hours—11 1/2 days—from Monday, Feb. 8 at 1:30 am until Friday, Feb. 19 at 1:15 pm, the mercury stubbornly refused to budge above the freezing mark. Arctic air blanketed a large part of North America as two storms interacted, producing record-shattering low temperatures, wind-chill readings not seen in a generation, and snow.
Canadian escaped the worst of the forecasted…