Winter storm breaks 121-year record on the Mississippi Coast for cold temperature Patrick Magee, The Sun Herald
Feb. 16 It s not every Mardi Gras morning that the Coast wakes up to icicles and frozen puddles.
Winter Storm Uri, which brought snow and ice to much of the northern half of Mississippi, also set record temperature lows for the date of Feb. 16 on the Coast on Tuesday morning.
The temperature dropped to 22 degrees at both Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi and the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in Gulfport. That breaks the old record of 24 that was established in 1900, said Phil Grigsby, who is the lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Slidell, Louisiana. Those are from our records dating back to 1893, so that record was 121 years old.