A sharp, prolonged siege of Arctic air shattered daily, even April monthly records in the Northeast and Great Lakes as April 2016 kicked off.

Subzero cold was observed near the Canadian border in northern Michigan, northern New York and northern Maine Tuesday morning. Daily record lows were set in parts of the Northeast Wednesday morning and the Upper Midwest Saturday morning.

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The cold blast may be short-lived, but was one of the factors that allowed for a series of late-season snow events to affect portions of the Great Lakes and Northeast.

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A few daily record low temperatures were set Sunday morning including Dubois, Pennsylvania (12 degrees); Youngstown, Ohio (15 degrees); Erie, Pennsylvania (20 degrees); Bluefield, West Virginia (20 degrees tied).

Temperatures dropped into the 30s in many areas in the Tennessee Valley, north Georgia and the piedmont and coastal plain of the Carolinas.

LowsSaturday morning, April 9, dipped into the teens below zero in the Arrowhead of Minnesota. Duluth, Minnesota (4 degrees) and St. Cloud, Minnesota (13 degrees) set new daily record lows.

Wednesday, April 6, record lows were tied or set in the following locations:

Concord, New Hampshire: 11 degreesProvidence, Rhode Island: 18 degreesPomona, New Jersey: 22 degreesBaltimore (BWI Airport), Maryland: 24 degreesSalisbury, Maryland: 24 degreesWashington (Dulles Airport): 24 degrees (tied)Lynchburg, Virginia: 25 degrees (tied)Georgetown, Delaware: 26 degreesRichmond, Virginia: 27 degrees (tied)Fayetteville, North Carolina: 31 degrees (tied)

Actual low temperatures on April 5, 2016. Subzero cold was observed in parts of northern Michigan, Upstate New York and northern Maine.

Helped by a cold air mass refrigerated by a fresh snow cover fromWinter Storm Ursula, Concord, New Hampshire shattered their all-time record low for the month of April Tuesday morning, dipping to a bone-chilling 4 degrees. The previous April cold record, 7 degrees, had stood since April 1, 1874, during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

Syracuse, New York, tied itssecond coldest April temperature on record Tuesday morning, dipping to 9 degrees. It was only the third April low in the single digits, there, dating back to 1902.

Some other daily record lows on April 5 included:

Negaunee Township, Michigan (NWS office): -7 degrees (second coldest temperature so late in the season, there)Glens Falls, New York: 7 degreesBinghamton, New York: 12 degreesWatertown, New York: 12 degrees (tied)Albany, New York: 14 degreesRochester, New York: 14 degrees

In addition, several locations on April 4 saw record cold high temperatures. Among those cities were Concord, New Hampshire (26 degrees), Hartford, Connecticut (27 degrees), Portland, Maine (25 degrees), Providence, Rhode Island (31 degrees), and Worcester, Massachusetts (22 degrees).

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