A city in northern Colorado was the coldest place in the country on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
Walden, a town of just under 600 residents in Jackson County near the Wyoming border, was officially the coldest place in the United States on Saturday morning when temperatures dropped to 15 degrees. That’s what NWS meteorologists say.
According to meteorologists, the northern Colorado town was located 52 miles southwest of Bynum, Montana.
The NWS Weather Prediction Center data does not include Alaska or Hawaii.
In second place were Fraser in Grand County, where temperatures dropped to 17 degrees, and Crested Butte in Gunnison County, where overnight lows reached 18 degrees, meteorologists said.
The low temperature in Denver for the same morning was 35 degrees, according to NWS data.
Although temperatures in Denver were warmer than normal in October, winter is on its way to the metro area.
The first frost hit Denver on Friday and the city could see its first snowfall of the season on Wednesday, according to NWS forecasters.
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