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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1982
Page
8
Wind NW at 33 mph at 9 p.m. Sun sets 4 56 and rises 7 34 Tuesday. Year ago highs 14 lows minus 5 with no precipitation. Record highs 52 in 1896 and record lows minus 20 in 1977. A warming trend through Friday with a chance of snow Thursday and Friday. Highs 5 to 15 Wednesday rising to mid 20s and mid 30s by Friday. Lows zero to 10 Wednesday, zero to 10 above Friday.
A blizzard warning covered western New York near Lake Ontario while Muskegon gained eight inches of snow. Sault Sainte Marie set the nation’s coldest morning at 36, then added three inches of snow. Gulf Coast lows dropped toward freezing, Florida into the 20s, with teens in North Florida. The Southwest saw mild 70s in California and desert regions, and the Pacific Northwest remained chilly with scattered snow.
National high and low temperature records report a low of 36 degrees at Sault Sainte Marie Michigan and a high of 74 degrees in Tucson Arizona with readings also at Gila Bend Coolidge and Buckeye.
Bitter cold and heavy snow hit the Great Lakes area with record low temperatures in more than three dozen cities. Chicago logged a Sunday high of minus 14 after a minus 26 low, while subzero readings spread from Montana to Michigan and New York and Pennsylvania fell below zero by evening. Buffalo saw two inches of snow per hour and wind chills reached 55 as northerly and westerly gusts to 50 mph prevailed.
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House Republicans meeting with President Reagan discuss potential tax measures to keep deficits below 100 billion dollars over the next few years. Proposals include taxes on natural gas price decontrol profits, oil imports, and tighter minimum income tax, with mixed views on higher excise taxes.
Severe cold and blizzards shut schools buses and roads across multiple states. Chicago faced four extra alarm fires including a fatal blaze and 22 firefighters injured. water froze on contact and a factory warehouse and car dealership burned. Authorities reported thousands of heat and weather-related complaints and widespread outages.
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Edward Campbell said he is leaning toward running for governor and would resign the party post if he pursues candidacy. Supported possible successors include Jerome Fitzgerald of Fort Dodge. Roxanne Conlin has set up a committee but has not announced. Campbell, a former Harold Hughes aide, is tied to the party’s moderate wing and legible 1976 Senate race loss.
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