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Black Pearl's Captain
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« on: January 07, 2010, 04:31:07 AM » |
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Currently 6 here in Wichita, Kansas with a 32 mph wind (really). That makes a feel like of -15. But it could be worse.
Raymond
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States was -80 °F (-62 °C) on January 23, 1971 at Prospect Creek Camp, located near the Arctic Circle along the Alaska pipeline. This is not much warmer than the -81.4 °F record low for North America that Snag in the Yukon dropped to on February 3, 1947. On that record cold February day, Tanacross Alaska reached -75 °F.
The continental US hit its coldest recorded temperature of -70 °F on January 20, 1954 at Rogers Pass, Montana. The pass sits at 5,470 feet elevation in the Rocky Mountains, northwest of Helena.
Other states in America where temperatures have dropped to -50 °F (-45 °C) or lower: Location °F Date
Peter’s Sink, Utah -69 Feb 1, 1985
Riverside RS, Wyoming -66 Feb 9, 1933
Maybell, Colorado -61 Feb 1, 1985
Island Park Dam, Idaho -60 Jan 18, 1943
Tower, Minnesota -60 Feb 2, 1996
Parshall, North Dakota -60 Feb 15, 1936
McIntosh, South Dakota -58 Feb 17, 1936
Tetonia, Idaho -57 Feb 9, 1933
Couderay, Wisconsin -55 Feb 4, 1996
Seneca, Oregon -54 Feb 10, 1933
Old Forge, New York -52 Feb 18, 1979
San Jacinto, Nevada -50 Jan 8, 1937
Gavilan, New Mexico -50 Feb 1, 1951
Bloomfield, Vermont -50 Dec 30, 1933
(WOW that Nevada and New Mexico is a surprise to me, Raymond)
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