In Bend and central Oregon, the cold wave hit its low point in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
According to the local TV station news, the low at the Redmond airport (15 miles north of Bend, the only NWS weather station in the area) was
-27°F. In Lapine (30 miles south of Bend) the low was
-32°F. In Bend they say the low was
-22°F.
I don't think any of these set
absolute records, but I'm sure they set new record lows for the dates.
As is typical when it's this cold, the air is very still, and as a result temperatures can vary a lot across the microclimates. My weather station is currently semi-impaired, so I don't know what the low was at my house, but
I think it didn't get colder than
-12 or so. It got down to -9 mid-evening, but was back up to -6 when I went to bed.
Today the high was above freezing, for the first time in several days.