An arctic front that plowed through Northeastern Oregon last week brought the coldest air of the winter to the region, and in some places the coldest in several years.

The temperature plummeted to 22 below zero on Feb. 12 at the Baker City Airport.

That easily broke the previous record low for the date of 7 below, set in 1948.

It was the second straight record low at the airport. The low of 14 below on Feb. 11 broke the record of 4 below set in 1982.

The Feb. 12 record marked the latest in the year that the airport has recorded a temperature of 20 below or colder. Temperature records at the airport, which is about 3 miles northeast of Baker City, date to 1943.

The minus 22 reading was the coldest at the airport in more than eight years. The low was 24 below zero on Jan. 5, 2017, and 23 below on Jan. 6, 2017.

It was the coldest February day in 36 years, since Feb. 9, 1989, when the low was also 22 below.

The cold snap in February 1989 was one of the more severe on record at the airport, with the temperature dipping below 20 below zero on six straight days. The lowest temperature, 28 below, was on Feb. 7, 1989.

The arctic outbreak didn’t rewrite the record book at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton.

The lowest temperature recorded there was 4 above zero, the low on both Feb. 11 and 12.

The record for Feb. 11 is 8 below zero, set in 1929. The record for Feb. 12 is 10 below, set in 1975.

The National Weather Service reported only a few record lows in the region during the polar period.

Walla Walla’s low of 6 degrees on Feb. 12 broke the record of 13, set in 1949.

Ontario dipped to 1 below on Feb. 12, breaking the record of 2 above set in 1989.

The low of 27 below in Burns on Feb. 12 broke the record of 4 below set in 1948.

That wasn’t the coldest temperature recorded last week, though.

The Oregon Department of Transportation weather station at Seneca, along Highway 395 between John Day and Burns, measured 34 below zero on Feb. 12.

Seneca, along with Ukiah, along Highway 395 south of Pendleton, share the record for official coldest temperature recorded in Oregon — 54 below zero in February 1933 (Feb. 9 in Ukiah, Feb. 10 in Seneca).

Other minimum temperatures on Feb. 12:

• Unity Dam: 25 below

• Hereford: 24 below

• Meacham: 24 below

• Mason Dam: 22 below

• Highway 7 at Sumpter Junction: 21 below

• Interstate 84 at Hilgard Junction west of La Grande: 20 below

• Joseph: 20 below

• Baker Valley southeast of Haines: 17 below

• La Grande/Union County Airport: 17 below

• Baker Valley southwest of Haines: 16 below

• North Powder: 15 below

• Prairie City: 15 below

• Unity: 15 below

• Elgin: 15 below

• Imbler: 15 below

• Wallowa: 14 below

• Joseph Airport: 12 below

• Grant County Regional Airport: 4 below