How often does your city get single digit F (below -12 C) Temperatures (climate, recorded)

[Adi from the Brunswicks]

Here, we get single digit F Low Temperatures approximately 7-8 times per year. I have never experienced a single digit high during my lifetime in the NYC area, but am probably sure it happens every 2 decades.

How often does your city get single digit temperatures.

[Bottletree]

Almost every day from Beginning of Dec to end of Feb.

[Ariete]

Average is 34 days (nights) a year.

2013 has had one day with a max high less than -12C. Most likely it will remain as the only one.

[Hemlock140]

We got to -12C once since I have lived here, in 20 years. Normally about the lowest is what we had last week, about -9C, and more often the lowest is -6C.

[deneb78]

In downtown Vancouver maybe it happened twice or three times since recorded observation. I can say it has not fallen below -10C (14F) in the past 30 years.

[alex985]

Single digit lows probably happen once every 20 years here, hasn't happened since 1985 here. Closest it's been is 14 F on February 4, 2009 and January 11, 2010.

[Wildcat15]

Usually once or twice. But who knows what's going to happen in this year from hell.

[Blue Skies]

I think the lowest temperature ever recorded in Santa Barbara was in 1990. It was 20 degrees.

[AdriannaSmiling]

Never but makes me wonder if we could see 9 F as a freak outlier occurrence (much like my 90 F on Christmas Day scenario from my other thread- http://www.city-data.com/forum/weath...-san-jose.html ). Record low in my microclimate is 16 F and record high for December is 83 F.

[Satellite_Anthem]

It happens here once every maybe 25 years these days. Used to occur more often, but the last time was in 1989. The coldest it's gotten during my lifetime was 14.