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A man in Muskegon fights the snow and cold during the deep freeze of the Polar Vortex in 2014.

(MLive.com)

Tuesday, Feb. 9, marks the anniversary of Michigan's coldest day on record.

Vanderbilt, in northern Lower Michigan, dropped to a frigid minus 51 degrees on February 9, 1934.

That's cold!

How does this compare to the coldest readings ever recorded in other Michigan cities?

Here are those coldest readings:

Lansing -37deg February 1868

Muskegon -30deg February 1899

Flint -25deg February 2015, January 1976

Grand Rapids -24deg February 1899

Saginaw/Bay City -23deg February 1918

Ann Arbor -23deg February 1885

Kalamazoo -22deg February 1912, February 1918

Jackson -21deg February 1912

Detroit -21deg January 1984

The coldest readings in Michigan mostly occur inland and in low spots. That's why you see Vanderbilt as the coldest spot.

In southern Lower Michigan, Lansing is a perennial cold spot. Often, the colder spots in an area are the result of thermometer placement. A thermometer might be located in a small depression of a few feet, and that makes all the difference. Just a few feet of lower elevation can make a location a few degrees colder.

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MLive Chief Meteorologist Mark Torregrossa has been forecasting Michigan weather for more than 25 years. He's been chief meteorologist at three television news stations in Michigan, and he's an avid gardener and hunter. Email him at mtorregr@mlive.com and find him on Facebook at facebook.com/mark.torregrossa and Twitter @weathermanmark