How cold????? (frost, freezing, snow, ice)

[LordBalfor]

Another eastern North Dakota experience - 40 below with a 57 MPH wind - which gives a wind chill of about -90 according to the NOAA chart: NWS Wind Chill Index

At the time, they calculated wind chill a bit differently differently (scroll down). This happened back in the early 1970's - when I was a teen) and we were told on the radio that the windchill was -117. Either way it was UNBELIEVABLY COLD!

Ken

[GraniteStater]

Brainerd Lakes region MN: -35F without wind chill.
Northeast Kingdom VT: -30F; calm winds.

At those temps the cold just seems to surround you even with many layers. Ice fog is also an interesting experience...

[FVWinters]

Originally Posted by DaninEGF

-44F in Grand Forks in 2004 no wind....actual low temp....

Beats mine.....On January 22, 1961 my hometown in the Hudson Valley had what may have been the most severe outbreak of lethally cold weather since the "Little Ice Age". The official low at the county airport was -33.
I was a paperboy at the time and just gotten done delivering Sunday morning papers an hour or so before the sun came up. A reasonably accurate thermometer on my back porch registered -38 and that may not have been the lowest it got.
New York State can get some of the coldest weather found anywhere in the continental US outside the high plains and northern rockies. Some rural areas in Ulster County (across the Hudson from mine) saw readings sink just below -50 and even those awesome landmarks can't compare with what some of the high elevation valleys in the Adirondacks can accomplish when they really try.

[JoCo freak]

Here in Kansas, we do get snow, about 3 ft. and it stays around 0-10F with highs in the teens in the heart of winter

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by JoCo freak

Here in Kansas, we do get snow, about 3 ft. and it stays around 0-10F with highs in the teens in the heart of winter

That sounds wonderful!

[Nephler]

The coldest I've been in was in Northern Michigan and it was around -40F, this was quite a good number of years ago.

Most snow, that was also in Northern Michigan. It was about 8 years back, we got 96 inches in 2 1/2 days.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by JoCo freak

Here in Kansas, we do get snow, about 3 ft. and it stays around 0-10F with highs in the teens in the heart of winter

KC only averages 20 inches of snow in a GOOD WINTER. One of the reasons I moved much further north was because I like to have an actual winter with snow on the ground for many months along with cooler summer temperatures.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by Nephler

The coldest I've been in was in Northern Michigan and it was around -40F, this was quite a good number of years ago.

Most snow, that was also in Northern Michigan. It was about 8 years back, we got 96 inches in 2 1/2 days.

In northern lower Michigan I think the coldest reporting station is Pellston, in Emmet County. It is not uncommon for them to see lows colder than -30F each winter.

[Nephler]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

In northern lower Michigan I think the coldest reporting station is Pellston, in Emmet County. It is not uncommon for them to see lows colder than -30F each winter.

I lived just north of Harbor Springs, so, just a bit off from Pellston.

[Infamous92]

Originally Posted by LordBalfor

Another eastern North Dakota experience - 40 below with a 57 MPH wind - which gives a wind chill of about -90 according to the NOAA chart: NWS Wind Chill Index

At the time, they calculated wind chill a bit differently differently (scroll down). This happened back in the early 1970's - when I was a teen) and we were told on the radio that the windchill was -117. Either way it was UNBELIEVABLY COLD!

Ken

Wow I can't even comprehend that kind of cold. I can't even begin to think about how that would feel. The coldest I recall feeling is a 10° temperature with -6° windchill but I had on a light Northface jacket. I know I probably felt more cold than that when I was younger but I was probably bundled up with my back facing the wind.