There certainly won't be a cold outbreak this Christmas week, but some holidays have been frigid even in the Deep South.
On Dec. 22, 1989, 36 years ago this week, the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. was in the grips of one of its greatest cold waves in modern times.
Nebraska tied its all time record low during the outbreak, minus 47 degrees, which only happened previously during the nation's clear number one cold outbreak of February 1899.
All-time record lows were smashed in Kansas City (minus 23 degrees); San Angelo, Texas (minus 4 degrees); New Orleans (11 degrees) and Wilmington, North Carolina (0 degrees), according to weather historian Christopher Burt.
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But it wasn't just the cold.
This outbreak was punctuated by the Southeast Atlantic coast's heaviest snowstorm in modern times, according to Burt.
It was the heaviest snowstorm on record in Charleston, South Carolina (8 inches); Savannah, Georgia (3.6 inches); and Wilmington, North Carolina (15 inches). High winds whipped the snow into drifts up to 8 feet in parts of the Carolina coastal plain.
It even snowed in Florida. Live Oak measured 1.5 inches of snow, while Tallahassee's trace of snow was its first on Christmas Day in its history.
Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him onBluesky,X (formerly Twitter)andFacebook.