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re: Coldest Temperature You Have Encountered?

Posted on 12/27/19 at 11:59 am to
Posted by Nawlens Gator
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 11:59 am to

Relative works off and on in Prudhoe Bay. With the warm spell they are now having the high will be -35 F. Twilight from 11 to 4 pm and dark in-between. No sunrise, no sunset.

Posted by X123F45
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:01 pm to
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wet cold I had to go back inside within ten minutes. Most miserable cold I’ve ever experienced.


Welcome to louisiana when it's 20
Posted by fallguy_1978
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:04 pm to
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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.

That's a different type of cold.

I used to smoke back then and I remember walking out of the office and taking about 4 drags of a heater and thinking "frick this" and going back inside
Posted by brett randall
Depends on the moment.
Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:10 pm to
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the north slope of Alaska.

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Christmas Day and it was -40 with a wind chill of -60. That is insane.


There's cold, then there is this level. Unimaginable unless you have experienced it 1st hand.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:12 pm to
I don’t know the specific number but it was well below freezing.
Posted by VADawg
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:13 pm to
-15 air temperature, -41 wind chill. January 2013 in Northeast Ohio.
Posted by Horsemeat
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:18 pm to
I was in Minot, ND last winter when the polar vortex broke out, I believe the real air temp was -25 and wind chill had it at -48. Diesel pumps at the truck stop I was at froze solid, I got out of the truck and stayed a couple of nights in a motel and that heater was struggling to keep up with the heat cranked to 11.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:18 pm to
The coldest I’ve personally experienced was -24 F when I lived in Ketchikan, Alaska. I believe further north temps got a lot lower.
Posted by crawfishcharlie
Crawfishtown, USA
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:41 pm to
-35 with a 40 MPH wind while working in Northern Wyoming 2 years ago. Couldn't stay out too long before getting the onset of frost bite....
Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 1:22 pm to
-20 something top old T-bar at Breck January 1998
Posted by gaetti15
AK
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 1:33 pm to
-65F in Manley Hot Springs in interior Alaska today
Posted by Them
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 1:39 pm to
Coldest that I know of, like where I actually saw the temp on a thermometer, was -39, here in Bozeman on a completely still bluebird day in January about 13 years ago.

I’ve probably skied and/or hunted in around -15 weather counting a wind chill, but I don’t know for sure.
Posted by AbitaFan08
Boston, MA
Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 1:58 pm to
With the wind chill I think it got somewhere near -20 when I was in Iceland.
Posted by Klingler7
Houston
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 2:17 pm to
-31 F in an Ice cream vault. Direct blowers inside vault added a windchill of -60 F. I wet a t shirt and placed in front of blowers, the shirt was frozen stiff in 45 seconds.
Posted by VermilionTiger
Member since Dec 2012
39424 posts
Posted on 12/27/19 at 2:24 pm to
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I think I could manage the cold, but no daylight would be a deal killer for me. We still manage to get about 6 hours of daylight at least.


Without our arctic gear, it was miserable. Believe me when I say that on my last day there, wearing jeans was the biggest mistake ever

I might as well have been butt naked because that did nothing for me

I think working conditions were set to 10 minutes outside at a time
Posted by Gugich22
Who Dat Nation
Member since Jan 2006
27840 posts
Posted on 12/27/19 at 2:26 pm to
6 in Tulsa, OK. The worst part about it is that I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Posted by VermilionTiger
Member since Dec 2012
39424 posts
Posted on 12/27/19 at 2:26 pm to
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Relative works off and on in Prudhoe Bay. With the warm spell they are now having the high will be -35 F. Twilight from 11 to 4 pm and dark in-between. No sunrise, no sunset.


Around DeadHorse? That’s where I was back in 2012

Proceeded to go to college and not I sit my arse at a desk all day
Posted by Thracken13
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Posted on 12/27/19 at 2:36 pm to
-65 during the polar vortex a few years ago.
Posted by WylieTiger
Member since Nov 2006
14795 posts
Posted on 12/27/19 at 2:38 pm to
-13 Hatcher Pass, AK

-60 wind chill, Anchorage, AK
Posted by ForLSU56
Rapides Parish
Member since Feb 2015
5582 posts
Posted on 12/27/19 at 2:38 pm to
Minus 6 with a damn gale blowing. I have no clue how people live in that.
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