Seasonably cold temperatures brought a chill to many residents in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies Tuesday morning. In fact, a handful of cities in experienced record-breaking cold. In Montana, thermometers plunged into the 30s and 40s the day before Independence Day.
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Elsewhere, the city of Eugene in Oregon's Willamette River Valley plummeted into the 30s by Tuesday morning. The observed low temperature in Eugene was 38 degrees! That temperature---38 degrees---was also the coldest temperature ever recorded during the month of July. Weather records have been kept in Eugene for nearly 125 years.
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Residents of Eugene can rest assured knowing that a more summer-like temperature trend is back in the forecast. Afternoon high temperatures will return to the 80s with overnight low temperatures in the 50s.
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Meteorologist Joe Astolfi