It was cold 123 years ago… minus 5 degrees in Jackson!

We’ve had some cold mornings and days this winter but nothing can compare to the cold wave that hit the southern U.S. 123 years ago this week, in February 1899. Meteorologist James Spann said, “One of the coldest air masses every observed in the U.S. made it all the way to the Gulf Coast. It was 7°F in New Orleans […]