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WINTER WEATHER BREAKS DAILY LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD

GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN, NC - Unseasonably cold weather broke the record for the daily low temperature November 19 at the official US Weather Service reporting station located next to the Mile High Swinging Bridge on Grandfather Mountain.

The temperature dipped to 8 degrees early in the morning breaking the previous daily low record of 10 degrees set in 1968.

The all time lowest temperature ever recorded in November at Grandfather Mountain is -12 degrees on November 15, 1959.

For more information on the 53 years of weather data from Grandfather Mountain, see the interactive weather database at http://www.grandfather.com