Below is a table of the temperature records set in 2019. What if you compile the past 8 years, from 2011 to 2018 worth of temperature records: 2,529 hottest versus 226 coldest temperatures on record. In a stable climate, over the long term, both highest temperature records and coldest temperature records should be relatively equal. While there is yet to be an official coldest temperature record in 2019, Brian Brettschneider noted the unofficial temperature of -38°F at the Mount Carroll Cooperative station in Illinois. As the polar vortex continues to chill temperatures in North America, reports are coming in that coldest temperature records have been broken.

Source: Forbes January 31, 2019 16:27 UTC