![]() My husband burned out my hair dryer trying to unfreeze the water line of what was originally a summer bungalow. "1985 in Upper NJ state near the NY border in Highland Lakes, one morning the temps were -20 degrees. You"ll get much lower, but I was in this frigid air for about 5 hours." "For me it was 14 below, hiking in the Catskill mountains in New York State. I was not fun but of course the nature of the training was not intended to be." Our Navy instructors told us it reached -34F. 1967 at Rangely, Maine while undergoing a week of Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training. 'The coldest temperature I have experienced was in Feb. Never did my down blanket feel so wonderful as it did that day when I finally got home!" It was so cold that the furnaces couldn't keep up, and most of the homes I visited were chilly inside. Somehow my 1984 Firebird never failed to start and as I drove through my workday I saw dozens of cars with dead batteries. The ACTUAL temperature, without wind chill, was -25F! I was a home health nurse then, and we were like the mailman- neither rain, snow, sleet, hail.nor North Pole conditions would stop us. I wish I could remember the exact year, but it was January in the late 1980s in northeast Pennsylvania. "As requested on the CoCo RaHS site, here is my little story. Locals allowed that it was about minus 35º. "As far as I can remember, my coldest temperature was in the early 1970’s in Amherst, New Hampshire. (In the last 10 years there has been several winters without reaching a single -20F!)įYI: The local observer before me (Glen) at a site located in a similar environment about 20mi west in West Burke, VT) reported a -42F in the 1940's (his obs went from 1930-1998, without missing a single day!). "The coldest I've experience at this location ( Granby, VT: 30mi from Canada and 10mi from NH, with ob's started in 1982) was -38F in the mid-1980"s when every winter produced 3-5 readings at or below -35F. Of course that was in the days of the old wind chill scale!" My coldest wind chill was measured at -70F the next winter in Elka Park, NY at the top of Platte Clove in the Catskill Mountains where I was living at the time. ![]() No wind, but a sort of ice fog hanging in the air. But on the weather radio an hour later they said Newburgh, NY (30 miles further south) it was -30F so then I knew it was true. At first I thought “this is crazy, it cannot be that cold”. "My personal coldest morning was -33F in Ulster Park, NY in January 1994. In following our CoCoRaHS privacy policy, only first names have been used. but please put a jacket on first before you read these! Winter can be bitterly cold! What’s the coldest temperature you have ever personally experienced?ĭuring the Holiday Season of 2016 we asked our CoCoRaHS observers, “What’s the coldest temperature you have ever personally experienced?” We had an overwhelming response and below are their chilling stories from different regions across the country and in fact from places all over the world.
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