Alaska’s Record Snowstorm, America’s Record December Low
If you think your New Year’s Eve will be cold, Alaska would like to have a word with you. Some year-end holidays have been downright brutal. On Dec. 31, 1999, 26 years ago today, the village of Chicken, Alaska, near the border with Canada’s Yukon Territory, plunged to 72 degrees below zero. That’s a December…