A blast of arctic air quickly chilled cities in the Gem State to some of the lowest temperatures we've seen all season. One of the lowest temperatures was recorded in Stanley this morning. Temperature readings in the town dropped as low as -31F this morning. Lows in the Treasure Valley dropped into the low teens and even the single digits in some areas.

This arctic surge is stretching across the Great Basin. A mountain basin in Utah recorded the lowest temperature in the nation today. Peter's Sink, located east of Logan, UT, recorded a low of 60F this morning! That falls about 9 degrees short of the lowest temperature ever recorded in the contiguous United States. The coldest ever recorded temperature is 69.7F in Montana in 1954.