PITTSTON TWP. — The deep freeze that settled over Northeast Pennsylvania this week is a record-breaker.
The temperature at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport dipped to 19 degrees on Tuesday about 11 p.m., establishing a new record low for Nov. 12, the National Weather Service reported.
The old record for the date was 21 degrees in 1926.
About eight hours later — around 7 a.m. Wednesday — the temperature at the airport bottomed out at 16 degrees, which set a new record low for Nov. 13.
The previous record was 19 degrees in 1986.
— DAVID SINGLETON