Susan Cortvriendt pushes her 9-month-old granddaughter Makena Meade in a carriage past a blooming magnolia tree on 46th Street in East Sacramento on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. “I have three grandsons and this is my first granddaughter,” beamed Cortvriendt. The day’s clear skies didn’t reflect an end to winter entirely. The National Weather Service issued a freeze watch Monday for the Sacramento Valley from late Tuesday night through Friday morning, when it projects widespread areas of sub-freezing temperatures that could kill crops and sensitive vegetation.
Renée C. Byer
rbyer@sacbee.com
It’s been nearly 90 years since Sacramento’s coldest day on record.
The city got close in 1990: 18 degrees on Dec. 22.
The lowest expected temperature during the hard freeze warning this February is 28 degrees. The coldest recorded temperature for this week in history was 30 degrees, recorded in 1887. Sacramento’s all-time low for Feb. 23 is 32 degrees.
