Lowest daily maximum temperature record in your city (warm, storm, windchill)

[alex985]

Originally Posted by wawa1992

2 F / -17 C on January 12, 1918. That's in Nashville, where I actually live it's probably -2 to 0 F / -19 to -18 C.

That's ridiculously cold for Nashville, and it's not the only time that Nashville has had a high in the single digits before either. I've always thought TN gets impressively cold during some cold snaps for it's latitude. Sometimes I'm envious of you guys because in certain cold snaps places like Nashville seem to even be way colder than even Atlanta or Birmingham which aren't that far south. Crossville, TN gets quite nippy at times during winter as well.

[Crunch41]

Originally Posted by snj90

Close enough. I like the data I can get on Weather Underground. I just wasn't sure how or where to select data by that attribute specifically (daily max temperature as opposed to average temperature).

If you can find a WRCC station nearby, the daily records are all available if you click "Daily Summary Stats" at the bottom, easy to find the lowest max.

The map is here, though a lot of the stations don't have data, not sure why.
US COOP Station Map

nearest 3 to that 7N7 airport you mentioned are across the border:
WILMINGTON PORTER RSVR, DELAWARE - Climate Summary
MARCUS HOOK, PENNSYLVANIA - Climate Summary
WILMINGTON WSO ARPT, DELAWARE - Climate Summary


For Madison, WI, lowest max is -14F/-25.6C in February 1996 and January 1912 and 1924.
As you go north and west the values get lower, I think the contiguous US record is -39F/-39.4C in Roseau, MN in 1899.
The US record is -66F/54.4C in Ambler, AK in 1989. Canada's probably beaten that, and obviously Russia, Greenland, and Antarctica have as well.

[alex985]

^^ I think I read somewhere that Glasgow, MT had a high of -44 F (-42.2 C) in January of 1912. I read in that same article that Langdon, ND had a high of -40 F (-40 C) that same day.

[wawa1992]

Originally Posted by alex985

That's ridiculously cold for Nashville, and it's not the only time that Nashville has had a high in the single digits before either. I've always thought TN gets impressively cold during some cold snaps for it's latitude. Sometimes I'm envious of you guys because in certain cold snaps places like Nashville seem to even be way colder than even Atlanta or Birmingham which aren't that far south. Crossville, TN gets quite nippy at times during winter as well.

I lived in Cookeville for college for two years in 2011-2013 (weekdays only, late August - mid December and mid January to early May) and it was often colder than Nashville or White House, where I live. Cookeville is 30 minutes from Crossville and 2 hours from White House.

During my lifetime, the lowest maximum was 9 F / -13 C on January 18, 1994. I was 1 at the time and can't remember it. A 12 F / -11 C was also lost to infantile amnesia on February 4, 1996, at age 3 The coldest high I remember was January 24, 2003, high 15 F / -9 C. I was 10 years old, and remember it well. Most years don't have highs below 20 F / -7 C here, but they can, and it can get really cold

As a side note, the only negative temperature I have lived through was a low of -2 F / -19 C on February 4 and 5, 1996. I was 3 and can't remember it.

I was born on December 25, 1992, and the mid 1990s had some really good cold waves. Darned infantile amnesia. I would love just a scrap of memory, just a glimpse at a weather forecast or something from back then.

[alex985]

^^ Nashville also had a low of 0 F on January 18, 2003 and again 6 days later on January 24 and Crossville has seen 0 F as recently as 2009, also a high of only 14 F on January 8, 2010 and a high of 15 F again on December 13 that same year. During that same 2003 period, Crossville saw a low of -2 F on January 18 and then -4 F on January 24th . That's quite impressive.

[chicagogeorge]

On January 18th 1996, and December 24th 1983, the high temperature was -11F/-24C officially in the city of Chicago.

[Crunch41]

Originally Posted by alex985

^^ I think I read somewhere that Glasgow, MT had a high of -44 F (-42.2 C) in January of 1912. I read in that same article that Langdon, ND had a high of -40 F (-40 C) that same day.

I'm not sure on the Glasgow one, this weather station has a high of -44 but the low is -33, which doesn't make sense. The night before was -56, so it definitely could happen. I didn't check any stations in Montana, but I could see them winning.

GLASGOW WB CITY, MONTANA - Climate Summary, click daily summary stats at the bottom.

Langdon is as cold as Roseau, so I wouldn't be surprised, but I can't find that in the stats, the lowest I find is -32 in 1996. And a -35 on March 10, 1945 which looks like an error.

LANGDON EXPERIMENT FARM, NORTH DAKOTA - Climate Summary

[cloudcrash619]

Originally Posted by wawa1992

I lived in Cookeville for college for two years in 2011-2013 (weekdays only, late August - mid December and mid January to early May) and it was often colder than Nashville or White House, where I live. Cookeville is 30 minutes from Crossville and 2 hours from White House.

During my lifetime, the lowest maximum was 9 F / -13 C on January 18, 1994. I was 1 at the time and can't remember it. A 12 F / -11 C was also lost to infantile amnesia on February 4, 1996, at age 3 The coldest high I remember was January 24, 2003, high 15 F / -9 C. I was 10 years old, and remember it well. Most years don't have highs below 20 F / -7 C here, but they can, and it can get really cold

As a side note, the only negative temperature I have lived through was a low of -2 F / -19 C on February 4 and 5, 1996. I was 3 and can't remember it.

I was born on December 25, 1992, and the mid 1990s had some really good cold waves. Darned infantile amnesia. I would love just a scrap of memory, just a glimpse at a weather forecast or something from back then.

With the cold snaps like Jan 1994 and 2003, Nashville was about 10 degrees colder than Memphis, wow. One thing that has always amazed me is the 1995-96 winter snowfall. Nashville got almost two feet, while Memphis got half an inch. Thank god I was too young to care about weather, otherwise I would have a mental breakdown

[tärnajokk]

-11°C in the city I'm living in at the moment, but probably colder in my hometown.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Drover

-11F/-24c, Christmas Eve 1983, and again on January 18, 1994.

Looks like we got a shot at setting a new record tomorrow, with a forecast high of -13F / -25c. The car battery is gonna get a serious test tomorrow...

ETA: I guess technically tomorrow's "high" is right now (just past midnight) at -1; the -13 is the expected daytime high. So no records broken tomorrow due to a technicality.