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The Day America Set Its Record High AND Low (1911)

On one November afternoon in nineteen eleven, a wall of cold swept across America and dropped the temperature forty degrees in fifteen minutes. By nightfall, whole cities had set their record high and their record low, on the very same day. It was the eleventh of November.

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