What is the coldest that you, personally, have experienced?

[arizonasooner]

List the place, temp, and approximate date:

I'll start:

Lima, OH -28F 1/19/1994

[Stephanie]

I think it was the winter of 1981 when we had sub zero temps or near zero temps. It was that year or the winter of 1982. I was going to college then and I didn't care what I looked like walking to and from classes - I was bundled up and ready.

I remember sitting at a light on my way to school and one of my hoses burst. Fortunately, there was a gas station right across the street so they could fix it but it was a cold, COLD day!

[george_r_1961]

I believe it was -20. Near Scranton PA when I was a child.

[ed]

Youngstown,Oh. -25 with wind chill of -40 to-50.Jan. 1994. Could not get my car started 3 days in a row.Believe it or not,the sun was actually out during that time.

[Extremeweatherguy]

The coldest I have EVER seen was about -1 to -3 degrees on top of a mountain pass just outside of Lake Tahoe.

I have also experienced near zero temperatures in Raleigh, NC a few days after the big blizzard of 2000. That was a very close second for me.

[CajunMama]

Dang...my low was nowhere near y'alls. My low was balmy compared to yours! I think mine was 9°.

[Jim Cantore]

The coldest I can remember was 10 during the Blizzard of 03, but I'm sure I've been in lower.

[Aquawind]

-32F 1996 was official at the Minneapolis, MN airport but I lived in the NW Suburbs and it was colder no doubt.. Been in a few -40-60F windchills according to the old calculations in MN and SD. I use to consider a 2 week period below zero for highs normal in MN. Yeah the ice gets thick up there.. Hence now I am in Florida..

[nystate]

close to -40F w/ a -50F windchill in Watertown, NY

[PTPatrick]

-8 Denver Colorado...a week or so ago

[Siberian Express]

About -38 in 96 the same cold snap Aquawind posted about. Wind chill was brutal, yes I'm still here.

[hurricanedude]

-60 Yellow Knife Canada in 1999

[Aquawind]

-60 Yellow Knife Canada in 1999

Dude you were a long way from home in Florida..

[weartherkid]

I believe it was -20. Near Scranton PA when I was a child.

say to you hello from wichita kansas ......

[bob rulz]

Logan, Utah got to a low of -30 degrees on December 23, 1990, but I was less than a year old at the time (and I was just visiting relatives), so I personally don't count it. It's possible I experienced some very cold temperatures in Kalispell, Montana between November 1994 and January 1995, when I lived there, but I can't confirm anything really cold. Looking at the weather records for Missoula, I can assume that we saw some pretty frigid subzero temperatures in early January 1995, but again, I can't know for sure how cold they were. Therefore the coldest I will say is when it dropped to -12 degrees here in Salt Lake City on February 3, 1996, but this is an imprecise estimate.

[AL Chili Pepper]

-27, Huntsville, AL. All time record low for the state and I was there.

[f5]

i would love Scott Patterson to answer this thread since he like braging about his cold corner in colorado he will probably say -500

[vbhoutex]

3ºf in Des Moines Iowa on Feb. 18, 1975 or so.

[PTPatrick]

Colorado -61 Feb. 1, 1985 Maybell 5,920 Ft


That is the coldest temp ever officially recorded in CO, and I beleive it is Scott's neighborhood

[Portastorm]

- 19 degrees ... Cleveland, Ohio in January 1977.

I was a paperboy for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and I'll never forget delivering papers that morning, thanks to my Dad who got up and drove me around because it was so incredibly cold!!