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-100 windchill in Grand Forks ND one Christmas early 80's. Definitely chilled things in a hurry. Didn't even need ice in the bourbon...  have been up in No Dakota on business all week, when the bottom fell out of the thermometers, and the wind chills were trying to blow No Dakota over to Wisconsin...saw crazy temps and wind chills listed....just parked the car and locked it up and left it running...all day and all night, all week long... I know it had been cold, as I get back to the Twin Cities and it was 25 below and it was amazing how warm that actually felt... coldest temps I have been in tho were in Chicoutimi Quebec...think that was about 1972 or 74...
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I was working at the Class 6 warehouse on Ft. Richardson at that time. Coldest I have had to work in was -68F ambient at Prudhoe Bay, Endicott Island, Christmas of 1985. The windchill that night was -98F! Coldest I have ever seen was -73F ambient at Delta Junction, AK, the winter of 1959-60. The coldest I had to work as a cop was -45F in Anchorage in the early 90's (don't remember the exact year  ) when I stood out on the roadway investigating a fatal car crash at Jewel Lake and International Airport Road. Ed
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Several years ago I took my snow machine for a ride, to what we call 7 mile hill it is about 7 mile out of town. 1:00 am and -50 when I left, closer to -60 by the time I got back. I don't know what the wind chill is but I never broke 25 mph. And the windshield on that widetrack was tall. I was younger and dumber back then.
Erich
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Campfire Tracker
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It was so cold here on the north slope, that when I stepped outside with a cup of coffee, it froze so fast the ice was still warm.
Last edited by mart; 03/03/15.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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Campfire Tracker
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The coldest temps I have ever personally been in - actual temps, not wind chill temps.
Thule, Greenland -58 f.
Stanley, Idaho -48 f.
Both were colder than I ever want to be again.
drover
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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