Remembering "The Coldest Day EVER!"

in lower Alabama.
On the morning of February 13, 1899 the temperature in Mobile fell to an incredible -1 degrees in Mobile, AL.
The weather map that day...
https://media.wkrg.com/nxs-wkrgtv-me....0_640_360.jpg
https://www.wkrg.com/1777855029?utm_...zZXTQKbk5-bdMA

This picture is reported to be from Fairhope Pier that same day...
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...0c&oe=5CE704B9

Thank goodness we have not experienced anything like that this year!
FWIW, it has been into the single digits a few times here in my lifetime (60+ years), but not quite that cold again in over 100 years!

I am way too far north. Sigh.

I remember a Christmas season it was -24 in Knoxville. It was the coldest spot in the country that day.

I recall a few days with lows in the teens since I moved to Mobile in 1997. A few times we've been out duck hunting when the sheltered bays froze over. It seems like back in the late 90s/early 2000s, we'd get a strong cold front every week, below freezing temps were not unusual. Not anymore, I am not sure we've had more than 2 or 3 mornings below 32 in Mobile this year???

Last years sustained below freezing temps for 4 days was the coldest set of days in a row I can remember though. But other than that, it was a mild winter. This winter has been very mild.

Some of my coworkers who were here in the 80s remember one winter when the bay froze over. Staff from the Sea Lab remember walking on Aloe Bay!

Yeah, Christmas day in December 1983 the low was 8 in Mobile (and 14 the next day).
My daughter had just been born, and her mother and brother and I lived in married student housing west of USA (Hillsdale).
Those houses were so poorly constructed we had ice INSIDE the windows in the kitchen.
We were concerned the baby might freeze to death in her crib.
So we put her in the bed between us, and took turns trying to sleep.
Neither of us slept much those nights, but the baby was 'cozy' and safe ;-)

The water in my car battery was frozen on the 26th and I couldn't go to work.
Saw on the local news were Aloe Bay (on Dauphin Island) was frozen over and folks were chipping through the ice to retrieve frozen mullet, speckled trout and redfish!

That was the year. We buried my papaw on Christmas day and it was -24 degrees. You could see ice crystals floating in the air.