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re: Coldest weather you've been in?
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:23 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:23 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:How do you even dress for that and how does your car run in that cold of weather??
Wind Chill -55 here in Juneau.
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Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:28 pm to Darth_Vader
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Further north they were getting temps like -60 or -70 F if I remember correctly. It actually got to the point they even closed the schools which up there is almost unheard of.
I believe they keep kids indoors at recess in Fairbanks when it gets to -40. College students have fun in front of the UAF sign.
It's the 40 below club.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:31 pm to artompkins
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Three places stand out. Cold weather training in Norway -50 to -60, mountain warfare in Bridgeport, Ca around 0 in the mountains but seemed the coldest of the three at times because of the wind, and Ft McCoy, Wis. -25 but was not as physically cold feeling as Bridgeport or Norway.
This brings up the subjective nature of cold and the effect of wind - my dad was USAF enlisted in the late 1950s - he always maintained that Wyoming at 18 above felt colder than King Salmon, AK did at -60 in a blizzard, also because of the unrelenting wind.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:35 pm to LSUbase13
8 degrees, humid and windy camping out befor a duck hunt on Bouef River. It was nearly unbearable. OTOH I've been out in weather nearly that cold in dry West Texas and was comfortable in a fleece jacket and goretex windbreaker.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 1:40 pm to Ace Midnight
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This brings up the subjective nature of cold and the effect of wind - my dad was USAF enlisted in the late 1950s - he always maintained that Wyoming at 18 above felt colder than King Salmon, AK did at -60 in a blizzard, also because of the unrelenting wind.
I've been told that zero on the coast of AK is worse than 20 below in the interior, and that after it gets down to 10 below, temperature is just a number as far as the human body is concerned. It feels the same and will kill you just as quick at -20 or -50.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 2:03 pm to LSUbase13
I use to deliver ice in highschool. Walgreen's keeps their walk in coolers around -25 degrees F.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 2:08 pm to Jim Rockford
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I've been told that zero on the coast of AK is worse than 20 below in the interior, and that after it gets down to 10 below, temperature is just a number as far as the human body is concerned. It feels the same and will kill you just as quick at -20 or -50.
Only when the wind is blowing. At zero, it's usually dry and clear.
We have local winds called the Taku Winds that can have sustained hurricane force winds when it's cold, and that can be miserable. They are pretty localized though and I don't have them at my place (Auke Bay) 11 miles South in downtown, it's horrendous.
this is looking towards downtown from the Valley. No wind in the valley but downtown is experiencing 80 mph winds.
It does make for good surfing though.
This post was edited on 2/3/15 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 2/3/15 at 2:09 pm to TechDawg2007
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How do you even dress for that and how does your car run in that cold of weather??
You really don't. Wind chills that low suck, but don't really affect your car that much. It's really rare here though.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 3:52 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Wind Chill -55 here in Juneau.
Honestly, how do you deal with weather like that? Are businesses and roads open? I'd imagine everything would just shut down and become a ghost town, but I'm sure you are used to it.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 3:55 pm to LSUbase13
-20 in northern Michigan this past winter. I don't understand how people do it
Posted on 2/3/15 at 3:58 pm to LSUbase13
Was 0 degrees F a few weeks ago with a negative windchill here, though that was a little upstate of NYC.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:01 pm to Emiliooo
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-20 in northern Michigan this past winter. I don't understand how people do it
I grew up outside of Detroit. Yes, it got cold, but I still think Chicago is considerably colder. Chicago...for such a great city...is just miserable for 5 months. It's almost unlivable. Everyone is pissed off and in a "get the ____ outta my way" attitude because of the weather. I really do think it's a chore to live here in the winter months.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:06 pm to Forkbeard3777
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Honestly, how do you deal with weather like that? Are businesses and roads open? I'd imagine everything would just shut down and become a ghost town, but I'm sure you are used to it.
It's pretty rare, but -25 wind chills happen a few days a year. Nothing shuts down really, except air and sea traffic.
Here's a video showing what it does to the seas, even in protected waters.
LINK
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:07 pm to Forkbeard3777
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I grew up outside of Detroit. Yes, it got cold, but I still think Chicago is considerably colder. Chicago...for such a great city...is just miserable for 5 months. It's almost unlivable. Everyone is pissed off and in a "get the ____ outta my way" attitude because of the weather. I really do think it's a chore to live here in the winter months.
Large cities seem more miserable in cold weather mainly because of the wind being forced between the buildings.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:07 pm to RogerTheShrubber
It is warmer in the hills around Fairbanks. Never understood that. I thought it was supposed to be colder the higher you got
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:12 pm to USArmytiger
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It is warmer in the hills around Fairbanks. Never understood that. I thought it was supposed to be colder the higher you got
Inversions. Colder air being more dense settles in the lowest areas, and the hills above are actually warmer. Normally it gets 3.5 degrees colder per 1,000 feet but during an inversion, its the opposite.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:13 pm to LSUbase13
Hit -18 last year in hellish chicago
Wind chill was -70
For as tough as Chicagoans say they are I didn't see any of them taking me up on my offer to play snow footbLl that day
Chicago sucks deeply and truly
Wind chill was -70
For as tough as Chicagoans say they are I didn't see any of them taking me up on my offer to play snow footbLl that day
Chicago sucks deeply and truly
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:14 pm to LSUbase13
Surfaced on the North Pole while in the Navy. It was November and the temp was -20. Wind chill brought it down to almost -50 
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:15 pm to RogerTheShrubber
We didn't drive too much in the hills and mountains during the three years we were there. The army stopped doing PT outside at -25 and the kids school stopped sending them out to recess at -20.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 4:16 pm to USArmytiger
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We didn't drive too much in the hills and mountains during the three years we were there. The army stopped doing PT outside at -25 and the kids school stopped sending them out to recess at -20.
Yeah, I've never been there in winter for any length of time, just summer.
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