FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Weather forecasters say this January was the fifth-coldest January in Fairbanks on record.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/zC2KDQ ) says the average temperature for the month at Fairbanks International Airport was almost 27 degrees below zero.
The National Weather Service says that's two-tenths of a degree colder than January 1969, the sixth coldest Januarys for Fairbanks.
The coldest January in Fairbanks occurred in 1906, with an average temperature of minus 36.4 degrees.
Other Januarys in Fairbanks colder than last month were in 1966, 1934 and 1971.
No daily temperature records were broken in Fairbanks last month. The average temperature, however, was 19 degrees below normal for the month.
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Information from: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com