Hugo, Choctaw County facing coldest February on record

HUGO — A much-heralded Arctic rush of hyper-cold weather made its way across much of the Heartland into the southern plains to send temperatures below zero across most of Southeast Oklahoma Monday and Tuesday. According to the National Weather Service in Tulsa, the record cold weather extends back for more than 100 years, giving the area the coldest Valentine’s Day ever recorded here, with a…