How cold have you been?

[Burnin' oil]

Laramie, WY - December 21, 1990. The high was -19 and the low was -31. The high with the windchill was -35.

That is CRAZY cold. I remember thinking about walking half a mile to the store. No clouds, just the usual wind. I made it fifty feet before I turned back.

[gassy]

When I was a teenager in the Chicagoland area the temp was around -30 and the wind chill was -80. 1985ish maybe. I don't think I'm making that up.

[Jim Richards]

I'm sweating just thinking of those balmy temps.

[vash]

longmont colorado. i dont remember the year.. 1986-7?

-70 deg , maybe with the windchill.!! it was amazing! i whipped it out and tried to see if pee freezes in mid-air (it doesnt ). first time i ever experienced dry snow. you couldnt make a snowball.

the family i was staying with just left their groceries in the unheated garage.

hmmm..edit. just looked it up. i cannot confirm this.

[nynor]

at least that cold in norfolk, ne christmas in 1989. good grief. we had ice 1/2" thick on the INSIDE of our windows. the car wouldn't start. i made the mistake of walking around the back of the apartment building to the laundry without a coat/gloves. i dropped the key in the snow and thought that i may literally die, being that the laundry was locked and so was the front door.

christmas of 1993 in alberta. any exposed skin felt like it was on fire. then the rest of my skin would follow suit, as the cold and wind went through my clothing.

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by gassy

When I was a teenager in the Chicagoland area the temp was around -30 and the wind chill was -80. 1985ish maybe. I don't think I'm making that up.

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[vash]

i want to change my answer. few years ago..we rode horses into the sierras to hunt. 7 days. we got so stinky!! we had to break a hole in the thin ice and jump in clutching a bottle of CAMP SUDS. you will invent cuss words!!

[craigster59]

Boise Idaho, Christmas 1990. I think around -25. It was COLD! Nostrils freezing shut, exposed skin freezing, pipes freezing, fuel lines freezing, it sucked. I camped a lot in the snow in the Army, but this had it beat.

[nynor]

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check out the 21st to the 23rd... LOL! it was frickin cold!

actually, it was christmas of 1992 in alberta:

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/CYQL/1992/12/5/MonthlyHistory.html#calendar

[gassy]

Originally Posted by Burnin' oil

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Yeah I started looking it up after I posted. Found these. Differs from Wunderground though. All I know is that it was really cold yo.

[jwasbury]

Skiing at Jay Peak in Vermont back when I was a student at UVM (early 90s).

I have no data, but I'm telling you that Jay Peak is the coldest place on earth!

[shadowjack1]

In 1970/71?? cold weather survival warfare school, above the arctic circle, -50. Not fun. On a hunting trip in CO. the stuff inside the ice chest froze. Raw eggs peeled like hard boiled. I think it was -30 that night.

[Seahawk]

A Summer in San Francisco.

[nynor]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

A Summer in San Francisco.

you and mark twain....

[2porscheguy]

Skiing at Sunshine Village here in the Rockies, sometime in the late 80's...it was -36C without the windchill. Heck, the windchill factor on the chairlift was around -50C...let alone how cold it was while skiing! We would do one run and then head for the lodge for 1/2 hour and then do another....yah, but it's a "Dry Cold"!!!

The coldest I've seen it here in Calgary...again in the late 80's was -42C....that's about -48F.

Alex

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by nynor

you and mark twain....

...of course. I have never been really cold, cold like you guys have experienced, at least that I remember.

What used to scare me was the cold water I was flying over. Even with a dry suit if I went swimming I was a mort.

[SPerron]

Right now it's dropping to -34ish °c in Yellowknife. The coldest I've felt here was -50 °c a few years back. With the windchill it was something like -80. Interesting to experience but not so fun to work in... Beer gets cold real fast though!

[Hugh R]

On the first National Treasure movie the opening sequence is supposed to be the North Pole area, it was in northern Utah and -35 at crew call. We had electric blankets on the cameras and the film was breaking.

[imcarthur]

-40F. Timmins Ontario. February 1983 or 4. I drove up on business in my 80s Subaru. I backed it in at the hotel assuming I would need a boost in the morning. I didn't but the seats were frozen for an hour after I got going & the manual transmission was a bear to shift. I drove further north to Kapuskasing that day. You pass a sign on the road claiming that you have entered the Arctic watershed.

Ian

[azasadny]

-60 with windchill in MI one winter when we came home on leave... I got frostbite in my toes and it still hurts and that was more than 20 years ago...