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A current thread and the fact that now a lot of the lower 48 is colder than the actric had me thinking , whats the coldest you can remember it getting in the area you live. Me in SWMO. something like -15 and wind chill of like -50, lucky around here short lived and rare to under 0 more than 5 days or so a year.

I don't know the coldest it has ever been where I live, but I remember hunting deer at 26 below zero.

Steve.

A week or so cold snap. Ambient -40s night, -20s day.

Sidney MT, late '70s

-35 degrees here with out the wind chill

I don't know what the temp was but it was so cold here the other day I saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets!

-62F ambient in 1996
although I can remember winters in the 70's where -40 to 45 was a lot more common than now.

had -32 last nite.

these are not wind chill temps! wind chill don't mean much when it gets really cold'

-6 is coldest I can recall around here. Coldest day hunting was a few years back at 9 degrees at sun up with 30 to 35 MPH wind gusts. Not sure what the wind chill was that day.

LMAO , guess same could be said for all politicians and lawyers

The record low where I grew up and still live was 20 deg in the 60s.

Coldest I know I've been in is 4 deg up elk hunting the high country.

Kent

+3. And thats pretty dang cold for our area. Wind chill was -33. We hunted ducks that morning and didn't have a good hunt. Too cold and windy for here I guess, we should have been in a different location.

I have hunted ducks here on the river, when all the ponds were freezing and the river here actually froze almost all the way across twice. Ducks are a gimme when there is only a few tiny spots of open water...

Warning, ice flows will drag ALL your decoys away REALLY quickly...

[bleep]!! do they make enough whisky to live with that !!

-25 at home here in SW idaho.

-30 here a few years back. Heck aloft a lot colder than I like!

Respects,
Richard

In the mid 90's I remember a cold snap that was colder than normal. My dad left the loader tractor run for 3-4 days in a row because we knew it wouldn't start the next morning.

Thinking it was down around -40 to -45F.


About a year ago we had a cold day with absolutely brutal wind.

That is actually the nastiest day I can remember being outside. Painfully cold wind.


It was -17F ambient the morning I shot my deer this past November. That's cold enough for me.

plenty of whiskey drunk in the winter up here!

Sunrise today 7:53 AM sunset 4:38pm

Not only cold it's also dark here in Northern Poland.(called Finland by the locals)

People don't realize the extremes in temperature differences in Montana.

117 �F July 5, 1937 Medicine Lake

-70 �F January 20, 1954 Rogers Pass

coldest was 44 below in Dec 1989. Tonight it suppose to be -20

I remember my brother scraping a brown spot off his sheets one morning and when it warmed up we found out it was a fart...

Work occasionally requires me to travel to Prudhoe Bay



Coldest ambient I've experienced, -42F, coldest with wind chill, -90F.

I have an appreciation for why the Native peoples of Alaska have different words for cold and can relate that when the temp is in the -40/50 range and colder you know if you mess around it will hurt you. Also light starts doing some weird things when the ambient temp gets to -40, or as a designer I worked with at the time mused, I haven't seen stuff like that since dropping acid in the 60's.

Fortunately I live in a more temperate area -30 is the coldest I've seen in 18 years and 2014 was the first year in recorded history when the mercury didn't dip below zero.

To me more impressive than the extreme low temps, are extreme temperature swings. I've seen the mercury climb and fall 50F in 24 hr. When you see -15F one day and the next it's 35F and the snow is melting it's pretty impressive. Equally as impressive is enjoying spring temps in the mid 70's and awaking to mid 20's and several inches of snow the next day.

-52 is the coldest I have been in. I snowshoed my trapline that day and it was cold. We called the guy out at Tangle Lakes Lodge and he said his thermometer was saying -72 where he was at.