Coldest Temperature You Have Ever Experienced? (ice, recorded, Chicago, days)
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What was the coldest actual temperature you have ever experienced (without including the wind chill)?
I believe the coldest air temperature I have ever experienced would have to be on an ice fishing trip to Crow Wing County Minnesota in the Brainerd Lakes region. The air temp during sunrise was probably around -34F in January one year.
Last edited by GraniteStater; 09-20-2008 at 05:22 PM..
Last winter it was -37 three different times during the winter where I was.
Coldest was In Clayton Lake, Maine one winter we were doing outside work over there replacing a building that burned down that housed their main generators. The loggers stayed in, then went home a couple days early. The weather guy for International Paper told us it was an actual -52, but it wasn't reported to any of the weather agencies that I saw afterward. I don't know if he was lying through his teeth or not. Felt cold enough to be that low though. Had to keep my power tools in the cab of my truck with the heat blasting for them to work when I needed them. Leave them out for a few minutes and they wouldn't budge.
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That is an EASY one for me- it was Christmas Eve and:
DECEMBER 24, 1983: THIS WAS A BITTERLY COLD CHRISTMAS EVE IN BOTH
CHICAGO AND ROCKFORD. THIS MORNINGS LOW WAS 25 BELOW ZERO AT CHICAGO...THE THIRD ALL-TIME COLDEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED FOR THE CITY. WINDS ON THE MORNING OF THE 24TH RANGED FROM 29 TO 41 MPH...CREATING WIND CHILLS TO -82! THIS IS THE LOWEST WIND CHILL IN CHICAGOS HISTORY.
-55° F. at Gunnison, Colorado (unofficial--the official record there is -47° F.) Below -30° to -40° F. numerous times during the years I lived there. Coldest wind chill I experienced was in the Dakotas--approximately -70° F.
-65F while stationed at Galena Alaska, an Air Force station in the middle of nowhere several hundred miles north of Anchorage.
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