what is the coldest temp you have ever experienced?

Question

i have only been in the teens. but felt like it was in the single digits. Louisiana

Answer 1

-50 F

I was stuck up on Laramie Pass, off of I-80 in Wyoming 2 days before Christmas in '99, I was on my way home on Christmas break. Laramie Pass, btw, is the highest interstate pass in the US w/an elevation of close to 11,000.

It had been storming on & off & eventually the road became iced over. There were cars & semi's over turned & crashed into one another all along the highway leading up to the pass. Anyway, that night, they closed down the interstate around 5 pm. I was stuck up there until 5 am the next morning, 12 hrs of freezing cold.

This is what -50 feels like... You have your car running w/the heater at full blast, you have a sleeping bag around your feet & a 2 quilts around your body, w/your coat on & clothes on & you STILL CAN'T keep warm or stop shaking. You are shaking to the point you want to throw up.

Answer 2

My thermometer registered a temp of -32 degrees F on the morning of February (7th??) 2003 in Lyndonville, VT. That's the coldest I've personally seen.

Most of the time, in mid-latitudes, extremely calm, clear conditions (and snowcover) accompany these low temperatures. Snow emits thermal infrared with almost "blackbody" perfection. The clear sky absorbs and re-emits a minimum amount of that radiation and calm conditions allow colder air at the surface to drain into lower areas and cool further without mixing.

On the occaision I mentioned above, the temperature in the valley below registered -41 degrees F. A hydrological monitoring station in a valley not too far away registered a low of -46 degrees F. Lots of variability on these occasions.

That felt cold - taking deep breaths air at -30F is uncomfortable - but not nearly as miserable as walking any distance in temperatures of -15F with a steady 30mph wind.

Answer 3

23 22 F

Answer 4

Born and raised in south texas where snow is just a word meaning the top of an older gent's head....but I took a trip to boston one winter and it snowed there and got down to the single digits...that's pretty much as cold as i've seen it

Answer 5

Back in the 80's we'd often get winter temperatures in the -30s Celsius range (sometimes not including the windchill) here in Atlantic Canada.

Answer 6

Coldest, -15 F. Had to shovel snow in it

Answer 7

30 F is the coldest, I was visiting NYC but I'm from Southern California it's never that cold here.

Answer 8

you have no idea what single digits feel like child. i was born and raised, and still live in the midwest. coldest here was about 10 below ºF.

Answer 9

When I was up in Northern Canada, we had temperatures of -70 with the wind chill. And that's Centigrade, not Farenheit.
That's friggen cold!

Answer 10

-50F windchill Chicago, IL christmas 2000
They don't call it the windy city for nothing. I couldn't get a cab and had to walk 10 blocks to my hotel facing the wind at gusts of 40mph. Crap! that was cold!