North Dakota Recorded The Coldest Temperature On Earth Today -- January 1, 2018

The coldest place on earth today was in Hettinger, ND.

- 45 degrees.

Temperatures at all official global sites were checked -- including the North Pole, the South Pole, Siberia, Russia, the rest of the US, etc., and the coldest temperature recorded at an official weather monitoring/recording station was in Hettinger, ND.

Hettinger is in southwest North Dakota, near the South Dakota state line.

Note where the all-time lowest temperature for North Dakota for this date was recorded -- Parshall, ND -- the center of the Bakken.

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