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At a Glance Record mid-November cold enveloped much of the Plains, Midwest, South and East.

Over 400 daily cold records were set during Veterans Day week.

Freezing temperatures settled as far south as the Gulf Coast. An arctic cold blast shattered hundreds of mid-November cold records across the central and eastern U.S. during Veterans Day week.

Culling through National Weather Service record statements, over 400 daily mid-November cold records, including record lows and record-cold high temperatures, were tied or set across the nation from Veterans Day through Thursday, Nov. 14.

Some of these daily records eclipsed those set during the infamous 1911 Great Blue Norther cold front, one of the most extreme cold fronts in U.S. history .

We have a recap of some of the most notable cold factoids from this arctic outbreak in the recap section below.

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Record Cold Recap

Veterans Day

Among daily record lows set Monday included minus 21 degrees in Turner, Montana, 13 degrees in Chicago and 16 degrees in St. Louis. Record-cold highs set Monday included 8 degrees in Dickinson, North Dakota, and 18 degrees in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Temperatures on Monday afternoon stayed well below freezing as far south as the mid-Mississippi Valley and Central Plains. These were daytime highs more typical of January than November .

Tuesday, Nov. 12

About 120 daily record lows were reported by National Weather Service offices on Nov. 12.

Temperatures plunged into the single digits as far south as the Texas Panhandle, with some subzero lows in parts of the Northern Plains and upper Midwest.

Among the subzero lows setting daily records:

-Hibbing, Minnesota: Minus 13 degrees

-Norfolk, Nebraska: Minus 7 degrees

-Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Minus 6 degrees

-Des Moines, Iowa: Minus 1 degree

It was only the fifth time Des Moines had dipped below zero during the first half of November in records since 1878.

Indianapolis plunged to 8 degrees , the earliest in the fall it had ever done so in records dating to 1871. It was also the coldest so early in the fall on record in Watertown, New York, bottoming out at 8 degrees.

Even South Texas was involved, where a Monday heat index in the lower 90s was followed by a record low of 38 in McAllen. While Tuesday's high temperatures in the Lower Rio Grande Valley were in the upper 40s just after midnight, daytime temperatures in the 30s were thought to be the coldest so early in the fall, there , similar to a 1907 outbreak.

Chicago only topped out at 17 degrees Tuesday afternoon, a record-cold high for the date, smashing the previous record of 28 degrees from 1995. The high in St. Louis Tuesday afternoon was only 21 degrees, also smashing its previous record-cold high for the date of 34 degrees from 1940.

Highs in the mid-20s Tuesday afternoon in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Paducah, Kentucky, were their record-earliest-in-season such occurrences of subfreezing high temperatures – something more typical in mid-December – according to the National Weather Service.

Nashville, Tennessee, failed to rise out of the 20s Tuesday, their record earliest-in-season such occurrence .

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Wednesday, Nov. 13

Over 110 record lows were tied or set from the Northeast to Texas.

In the Northeast, Watertown, New York, tied its all-time November record low (minus 7 degrees) set last November 22 and 23. According to Alaska-based climatologist Brian Brettschneider, this was the coldest temperature on record so early in fall in New York state since 1900.

Burlington, Vermont, recorded its earliest-in-fall single-digit low, two days earlier in the calendar than the previous record from 1933.

De Graff, Ohio, about 40 miles north-northeast of Dayton, plunged to minus 1 degree .

Indianapolis set a daily record low just after midnight, plunging into the single digits. Single-digit temperatures stretched as far south as Clarksville, Tennessee, Wednesday morning.

Memphis, Tennessee , had its coldest low temperature so early in fall, plunging into the upper teens.

Daily record lows were also tied or set Wednesday morning in Cincinnati (10 degrees), Pittsburgh (12 degrees), Baltimore (22 degrees), New York's Central Park (23 degrees) and Philadelphia (23 degrees).

Freezing temperatures were recorded along parts of the Gulf Coast, including Houston, New Orleans and Panama City, Florida. The sharp contrast of cold air flowing over the warm nearshore Gulf waters produced plumes of sea smoke in Pensacola, Florida, Wednesday morning.

According to the National Weather Service, lows in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi Wednesday morning – ranging from the mid-20s to the mid-30s – were colder than any day last winter there .

Among over three dozen record-cold high temperatures for Nov. 13 were Binghamton (21 degrees) and Albany, New York (26 degrees), Hartford, Connecticut (32 degrees), Providence, Rhode Island (32 degrees), Boston (33 degrees), Newark, New Jersey (35 degrees), Roanoke, Virginia (37 degrees), Charleston, South Carolina (47 degrees), and Savannah, Georgia (50 degrees).

Thursday, Nov. 14

While the cold backed off a bit in the nation's midsection, it was still setting daily records in the Northeast the morning of Nov. 14, including at New York's JFK Airport (24 degrees) and Trenton, New Jersey (20 degrees).

At least four locations in Maine had their coldest morning recorded so early in any fall: Houlton (minus 3 degrees), Caribou (3 degrees), Bangor (8 degrees), and Millinocket (10 degrees).

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