I'm not well traveled, so my answer will pale in comparison to most here.
Give us the coldest straight temperature you've ever experienced, and the coldest wind chill factor you've experienced. In Fahrenheit, please.
Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
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Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
Chambersburg, PA around 1992. -32 -not sure what the wind chill was
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
Northern Ontario 1996/96, -50 F. It may have been colder but all red went down into the bulb of the thermometer and -50 was the lowest reading.
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
I remember back in the 90's of having a few blizzards and realy cold temps, but I was too young to care about statistics at the time.
I think we had a -5 and windchills like -20 in the past few years. That'll put a car battery to the test, for sure
I think we had a -5 and windchills like -20 in the past few years. That'll put a car battery to the test, for sure
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
I don't know the coldest I've ever been in, but I very much remember when in New Orleans as an 9 year old waking up at 2 in the morning freezing in bed. That was likely somewhere in the 40s or colder in the house. We were fairly poor and the house had openings to the outside.
The temp that night I remember got down to 18F.
The temp that night I remember got down to 18F.
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
Surprisingly despite living in the northern U.S. since 1989 and living in Montréal for a year, the coldest I've ever experienced was -20 F. (Maybe a few degrees below that.) That's not the threshold at which cars don't start or run properly, so I have zero experience with that.
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
I think it was -28°F here in northern Illinois, with a windchill of about -40°(F or C). Might have had colder in college in Troy, NY.
Last week we had -16°F here, with a windchill of about -40°(F or C).
Last week we had -16°F here, with a windchill of about -40°(F or C).
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
-51˚F in Montana. I did not bother check the wind chill because there is a point of madness in which I stay inside and do not bother to go out.
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I81 looked like a parking lot. The northbound trucks did not have enough additives in their fuel, the fuel jelled and the trucks stopped in the middle of the road.
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Re: Coldest temps you have ever experienced?
-40 *F was not unusual at all in Minnesota when I was there for Bible college. (I was in Omaha, Nebraska for the winter of 74-75, then in Minnesota for the next three winters, then winter of 78 just till school was out for the Fall semester, my final one.) There was one time when the wind chill was around - 65, and they said not to go out unless you absolutely had to. I didn't. But in general, -40 didn't feel as cold as -10 or so did in north-east Oklahoma (my home area), where the humidity was always higher.
Most people wouldn't think we would get temperatures like this in Oklahoma, but -15 was not unusual for the Enid area, where my grandparents lived. That is just outside the area generally considered the High Plains, and it gets even colder as you move farther west. Brutally cold, with strong winds that cut right through you. I imagine that western Canada is the same.
Most people wouldn't think we would get temperatures like this in Oklahoma, but -15 was not unusual for the Enid area, where my grandparents lived. That is just outside the area generally considered the High Plains, and it gets even colder as you move farther west. Brutally cold, with strong winds that cut right through you. I imagine that western Canada is the same.
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