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Forecaster Who Recorded Lows In Utah's Peter Sinks Doubts Record Change In 2017

On February 1, 1985 the temperature at Peter Sinks in Logan Canyon plummeted to –69.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Zane Stephens was a meteorology student at Utah State University at the time.

On that day Stephens put on his moon boots and snow shoes and  hiked intoThe Sinks where he captured the official temperature in a photograph.  Stephens currently lives in Mexico where he monitors Cache Valley temperatures from his computer. UPR’s Kerry Bringhurst spoke with him about the likelihood of temperatures at Peter and Middle Sinks dropping below the current record numbers in his life time. It’s unlikely, which Stephens says is disappointing.

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.