Last week was cold, but it has been colder
Wes Franklin
Neosho Daily News
Last week, the temperature in the Neosho area dropped to a frigid 14 degrees below zero (-14 Fahrenheit) at one point. That’s pretty darn cold.
I know lots of folks had busted water pipes, and also had to struggle to keep livestock alive.
However, that isn’t the coldest it has been here.
The record low in the State of Missouri is 40 degrees below zero (-40 F), set on February 13, 1905, in Warsaw, Missouri, according to the National Weather Service. Warsaw is about 150 miles northeast of Neosho. I couldn’t find exact data for Neosho on that date, but it was 29 degrees below zero (-29 F) in Gravette, Arkansas (30 miles south of Neosho) that same day, so it’s safe to assume that the low temperature in the Neosho area was probably somewhere in between.