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I voted -30 to -40. Southern MN. But we haven't had those low of temperatures for a while now.
I always worry about the creatures but as long as we don't have freezing rain they seem to manage. When my Emily cat was younger I watched her go out in minus twenty one night and sit by the garage guarding the perimeter for a good thirty minutes.
When I was in fourth grade my breath froze the front of my hair solid walking to school and when I took off my scarf and fluffed my hair it broke right off in my hand!
I remember one year in January when we had a wind chill of -90 and someone was actually out in it that night to steal our car battery. DH said, "I hope he froze his fingers off!"
Southern New Mexico, -9 F in 2011. An anomaly, but boy howdy was it cold. We had plants die all over town including all the palm trees. Pipes bursting everywhere, the plumbers made a killing (the high those couple days was 19 F).
I've experienced -40's F a bunch of times here in northern New England. I have no idea what the actual record low is. Never buy a house on the north side of a hill.
Here in CT somewhere around -10. Around the turn of the century when I was living in Maine it hit -22 the really annoying part with that one was it hung below 0 for over a week, that was a cold week.
Several weeks of -40F or colder (without wind chill) used to be fairly routine every winter in Interior Alaska. The past few winters though have been fairly mild though....not even officially hitting -40 last winter, although some places have this winter. The coldest I have personally experienced is -64F.
It was -12 without the wind chill Sunday morning. I went outside in a T-shirt and jeans for about three seconds just to feel what that was like. You know how the moisture in your nose freezes instantly? Well that's what it felt like on my whole body. It was intense. We had a nice walk in some really good gear. I was actually sweating by the time we got home. Good gear makes all the difference.
Lowest temp I have personally seen and experienced was -16 below in CT. This was about 1994 in the Central Conn river valley. (about 30 miles inland from the ocean)
I think the state record is -24 below, but that was in the northwest hills.
The record low since 1973 is -7.2°C/19°F in Nice and -12.0°C/10°F in Cannes since 1982, both in January 1985. I guess it's somewhere in between where I live, most likely closer to Nice's.
In Paris, since 1873 it's -23.9°C/-11°F back in December 1879. Yeah, that record is ancient.
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