By Dominic Adams
Flint – Congratulations, (click here) people of Flint – you’re living through the coldest Jan. 31 the city has ever seen in recorded history.
The coldest temperature the city recorded on Jan. 31 was -8 degrees in 1963, according to the National Weather Service.
So far on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 the temps have dipped to -14.
A record was also broken on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
The record-low, max temperature was 8 degrees and set in 1951.
Flint broke the record for the lowest max temperature when it never got warmer than 2 degrees on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.
“One important thing was that it was shortly after midnight,” when the record was broken, according to Meterologist Steve Considine. “Throughout the daytime in Flint the temperature never broke zero.”...
January 31, 2019
By Ron Fonger
Flint - Second-shift workers at General Motors' Flint Engine Operations (click here) are heading back to their jobs Thursday, Jan. 31, while other GM facilities in mid-Michigan will remain idled for now.
GM issued a news release Thursday, saying the engine plant -- one of six facilities to shut down in the region on Wednesday, Jan. 30 -- will resume operations, while second-shift employees at Flint Assembly, Flint Metal Center, Flint Tool & Die, Bay City Powertrain and Saginaw Metal Castings Operations remain off the job for the time being.
GM was among auto manufacturers in Michigan to temporarily halt some operations Wednesday in response to a fire at Consumers Energy’s natural gas compressor station north of Detroit.
The fire initially cut the gas flow from the station, putting Consumers' customers at risk of brief service interruptions in subzero temperatures and prompting appeals for conservation to residential and business customers....
