What's the coldest temperature you've experienced?

[RevJim 0]

Considering I deal with at least 2 or 3 major cold snaps a year (major being double digit negatives before wind chill), and have seen them up here my entire life (33 years), I really have no idea how cold it's been. I know that I see temps every year that many people consider insane. To me it's just another day.

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[FallRate 0]

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Oklahoma 1989 -70F

I assume that takes wind chill into account.

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[sdgregory 0]

I think one time after I pissed my wife off and then tried to get a piece by pulling her skirt up I got a blast of air that was somewhere in the neighborhood of -120F.


Ouch!!!!!. She did not think this was funny

Guess it will be cold again tonight!

[Muenkel 0]

-27F with a windchill of -75F.

The worst part is the shrinkage.

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[ltdiver 3]

Christmas 1989 in Silver Springs, Maryland.

-70F with wind chill!

I was there for a 2 week internship and flew back home to CA on Christmas day. I was amazed that it was shorts and t-shirt weather when I got off the plane in CA!!

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[jaaska 0]

-48C (-55F, without the wind chill factor - no idea how much it would have been with one ). During my service in northern Finland, Sodankylä (Lapland).

Did not get warmer than -40C (-40F) during that whole week and we lived in tents (although we had "tent stoves" ). Midwinter, sun did get up at all during that training. So it was pretty much dim dark blue forest. The hardest part was the cooking! We did our own cooking with small petrol cookers (one could cook for two persons with that thing) - you had to have a small candle underneath the cooker so that it would actually function.

Our captain told us: "As long as you feel something - even pain, you're OK. Let me know right away if you don't feel pain e.g. in your toes!"

The same captain kept on telling us: "This freezing hell is our friend - we can cope with it - 'the enemy' probably won't!"

Did not feel too friendly to me ... Well - nobody lost their toes or anything...

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[Dumpster 0]

I spent a winter in Keflavik, Iceland - I saw temps go well below -60F. (I can't recall how much colder, -90 maybe? - and at that point it didn't matter). At the time the winds were kicking up past 90 mph. I can't even guess what the windchill was at that point. Going outdoors was suicidal. Exposed skin would have frozen instantly. We were stuck indoors for three days that way.

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[kingbunky 3]

-60 somthing C, -90 something C with windchill in Fort McMurray Alberta, winter of 1990. i was driving a truck, delivering a load of lime that had to be blown off, so i spent several hours (in 10 minute increments!) out in it.

edited to add: wow, just did the conversion math, it was -76 F, -130 F with the windchill. (calculator here)

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[ladyskydiver 0]

I was a kid so I don't remember the year it happened, but with wind chill, it was -60F (don't know what the temps were without windchill). We were told not to go outside at all unless absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, it happened on a Friday so we only got to miss one day of school.

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[Aviatrr 0]

The coldest I have ever seen on the ground is -55C(-67F). Several hundred miles north of Thule, Greenland. I don't even want to guess what the wind chill was. The wind was blowing as much as about 70mph one of the days. If you had to go outside, you had to be 100% positive there was no exposed skin, or you would have instant frostbite(or worse).

Mike

[riddler 0]

Perception of cold is tied to relative humidity. When I was a kid in boy scouts, we had this thing called a Polar Bear badge. To get it you had to sleep in below zero degree weather. Sleeping in it is much harder than standing in it. When it's -28, not including wind chill, you forget your homophobia and crawl into your best friends sleeping bag But the coldest I've ever been was swimming in a mountain lake in Colorado. It was much warmer than zero, but when you're in the water it turns your bones to ice quick! You haven't been cold until you literally can't breathe because the temperature paralyses your diaphram.

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[TheBachelor 5]

Several times in -30 or colder in Northern Minnesota. At least once -100 with wind chill, although I don't think I was stupid enough to go out in it.

There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years...

[ozthebum 0]

-30 in Ellsworth SD, maybe -50 with wind chill.

[flygirl03 0]

- 26C @ 13,500
My fingers were numb when I landed, even with winter gloves on. I couldn't get my gear off they hurt so bad. Ironically, the rest of me was not cold...gotta love silk long underwear

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Oklahoma 1989 -70F working in the Motor Pool at Fort Sill.

that HAS to be with windchill factored in. no way did it ever get that cold in oklahoma lol.

the worst I've been in is -25 F in chicago, beats me what the windchill was.
but once when I was young, I camped in 5 F weather with a windchill of -10 F... that wasn't so bad except for the fact that I didn't have a mummy bag. that was a longgg night.
not to mention, when you camp in the cold, you have to pee alot during the night, which absolutely sucks.

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[skydivexxl 0]

3 weeks ago... -27F -33C
18,000 feet @ 120 MPH

8 frostbitten fingers

Anyone know the wind chill?

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