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In early February 1947, the tiny Yukon outpost of Snag experienced an extreme cold snap. A weather observer recorded a temperature so low it went beyond the markings on the station’s thermometer, and the reading was later checked and corrected to about -63°C (around -81°F), still considered an official North American record in the sources reviewed. In the still, intensely cold air, unusual effects were reported: voices and dogs in the village could be heard from the airport about four miles away