(MORE: The Coldest Places on Earth | Earth's Coldest Town | America's Coldest Cities) February 1899: The Clear Number 1 The cold wave during the first two weeks of February 1899 is by far and away the gold standard for cold outbreaks in U.S. history. The definitive paper on the Great Arctic Outbreak by Paul Kocin, Alan Weiss and Joseph Wagner referred to it as a benchmark with which to compare similar events.
I'm having some trouble figuring out what my screen resolution should be. My monitor is the Dell UltraSharp Widescreen 2007WFP... which is a 20 inch widescreen. Its native resolution is 1680 x 1050. At this resolution everything is very clear and normal and good. However, everything is a bit too small for me to read comfortably.
Right mouse click on your desktop, Properties. Click on the Settings tab, Advanced, Monitor. This should display your current Refresh rate in Hz. The refresh rate is the number of times per second your display is updated. For standard monitors this should be set to 70Hz at a minimum, otherwise you are likely to see a flickering effect which can cause eyestrain, migranes etc.