re: Coldest Temperature You Have Encountered?

-30F Fairbanks, Alaska 1970
-25F Minot, North Dakota 1972

There is nothing colder than a pissed off woman In your bed, facing the wall away from you with crossed arms.

That woman’s butt is the coldest thing Known to man

-42 without any of that windchill nonsense.

Been snowmobiling at -25. Calculate the windchill for that at 80mph.

Get some handwarmers for your ATV. All snowmobiles come with them.

I think like -15 in Wyoming and Idaho a couple of times, were the coldest.

One time back in the late 70s, it fell to -10 at our house in North Alabama. It was a surprise that it got that cold, and I stayed up all night with a propane torch trying to keep copper pipes from freezing on the north wall of the house, I failed and some busted anyway.

Back when I was working as a diver, I hit the water in a wet suit, when it was about 15 degrees and there was some ice in the backwater on wheeler lake. That was pretty bad, it made you move real carefully, so that cold water wouldn't flood in the neck of your suit and down your back That was cold, but the coldest I ever really felt, I was working on the (new) bridge at Decatur, AL. over the river, putting up street lights and pulling wire in the middle of the winter. With the wind always blowing down the river, out in the wide open, even 30 degrees felt cold as hell.

Better you than me.

Heated gloves for atv.

Heated face shield for helmet.

-15ish right outside Yellowstone.

It was one cold bitch.

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I was in Omaha, NE one Feb for work and it was -21. The high the first day was zero

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Pretty sure Omaha is the coldest spot on Earth. Checked into a hotel late and came down next morning to ask about days temp in the morning. Front desk clerk: “It’s 15 now but it’s going to get cold later today.” It got well into the negative teens that afternoon. I got the frick out of there the second I finished my work assignment and don’t ever want to go back.

Actual temp -20 windchill -45

-54 (ambient) Galena, Alaska 1993

About 13 degrees in December 1983 near Galveston with several days below freezing. Nothing like what y'all are talking about, but the coldest I've ever experienced here on the coast. I remember parts of Galveston Bay being frozen at the shoreline. Never had seen that before.