Today's temperatures are the coldest it has been since last March.

This morning temperatures dipped to zero degrees around 6 a.m. in Jim Thorpe, Nesquehoning and Kunkletown. A reader in Tobyhanna reported 1 below zero.Add the wind and forecasters predicted it would feel like temperatures hit 15 to 20 degrees below zero.Area schools delayed start times by two hours.SOME PAST WEATHER STATS:• The last time we recorded zero degrees was March 4, 2014.• It's still not as bad as some weather conditions of the past.• In 1996, we were digging out from a blizzard that dumped 25 inches of snow on Jan. 6 and 7.• On Jan. 12, 1981, a reading by a police dispatcher in Lehighton showed a temperature of 17 degrees below zero. Tamaqua had a 14 below reading that day. But the lowest on that cold morning was 20 below in the Kriss Pines section of Franklin Township, a reading recorded by Lorraine Kunkel.• On Jan. 17, 1957, there was a reading of 27 below zero in Lansford and 30 below in Hauto.• School closings don't happen too often in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.Although temperatures reached minus 24 in St. Paul Wednesday, schools were still open.St. Paul schools remained open because wind chill temperatures failed to hit the minus-40-degree mark the district set for winter closings, said district spokeswoman Toya Stewart Downey.Ron Gower