The Nation - News from Jan. 10, 1986

A long-awaited January thaw arrived in the Midwest, while Gulf Coast residents shivered through a winter storm that dumped heavy snow, rain and sleet over Texas, Louisiana and southern Arkansas. In the Northeast, it was 3 below in Limestone, Me., but temperatures climbed into the 50s across the Great Plains and reached the 40s in the Midwest, where some regions were as much as 40 degrees warmer than Wednesday. The thaw was welcomed by Midwesterners, who suffered through the second coldest December on record.