Snowstorm and frigid weather: Historic event or climate change?

The coldest day on record for Shreveport dates back 100-plus years.

Set Feb.12, 1899, temperatures on that historic day were 5 degrees below zero. The following day, Feb. 13, 1899, 3 degrees below zero marked the second-coldest day on record, according to Matt Hemingway, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Shreveport.

When asked if he could attribute this recent Arctic blast to “global warming” or “climate change,” Hemingway said, “Because we’ve had these record cold temperatures way back in 1800, we do not attribute this Artic blast to climate change."