diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c3daecd..ed28f09 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Improve README.md. (PR #169, @brews)
 ### Changed
 - Remove duplicated service-level logging info lines of code introduced by PR #148 (PR #168, @emileten)
+- Decrease validation temperature range min to 130 (PR #170, @emileten)
 
 ## [0.15.1] - 2021-12-29
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/dodola/core.py b/dodola/core.py
index 28046be..423e818 100644
--- a/dodola/core.py
+++ b/dodola/core.py
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ def _test_temp_range(ds, var):
     """
     Ensure temperature values are in a valid range
     """
-    assert (ds[var].min() > 150) and (
+    assert (ds[var].min() > 130) and (
         ds[var].max() < 360
     ), "{} values are invalid".format(var)