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Report on Outages During the Southwest Cold Weather Event of February 2011 [pdf]
- throw0101a 6y agoIt notes that cold weather events were actually somewhat common even as of 2011: > This cold weather event was thus unusual in terms of temperature, wind, and duration. It was not, however, entirely without precedent. The Southwest experienced other cold weather events in 1983, 1989, 2003, 2006, 2008, and 2010. In fact, two of those years, 1983 and 1989, had lower temperatures than 2011. [224] But only in 1989 were the severity, geographical expanse, and duration of cold temperatures and high winds comparable to the February 2011 event.