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I remember about 10 years ago we hunted opening deer season -18 in the am. Luckily it warmed up later in the day.
It won't take long to answer nature when it is that cold.

Played in a high school state championship game in the mid 90's and they said the windchill was -30 degrees. Not sure what the actual temp was, but I know it was damn cold wearing pads and a helmet.

I was planning to ski one morning here in Utah but learned that the lifts were closed because it was -65�F chill factor at the tops of the lifts.

So I went ice fishing.

I measured -35�F without the chill factor on the ice. It was nearly impossible to keep the hole open, and the radiator in my truck froze solid while I fished. It blew up with a considerable bang while I tried to drive home. My wife was less than enthused to have to shop for a hose and then deliver it to me, let me tell you.

No skiing, no fish, broken truck - and a mad wife. It seldom gets any worse.

Minus 90 windchill.

It gets cold enough up here that SOP requires you to tie a string around the end of it and leave the string hanging out the barn door so you are able to fish it out through several layers of clothing

Side note: I was pulling Reserve duty at Eglin AFB, in the Florida panhandle one summer. That's where they have a climatic testing hangar. A group of VIPs were on a tour and I was the escort. We were all ushered into the test lab, where a B-1 was undergoing arctic climate testing. I stood there in my short-sleeve shirt at -40�F for 15 minutes, trying to smile as the group got their lecture. Without wind, it was just barely tolerable, but going from 90� and 90% humidity to -35� and 5% humiduty and then back again is a helluva shock to your system!

We were trailing cows when I was a kid, cold and chitty weather.

I got off to take a piss and my fingers were so cold I couldn't button my pants back up.

Sitting on a horse in cold weather pretty much sucks worse than anything else.



Side note,

The cops found a couple of drunks froze to death in town a couple weeks ago.

I guess that would suck worse.

in Gainesville, the coldest I can remember it ever being was 8F, back in 1989.

B Battery Ft. Richardson Alaska 4000' ASL, New Years eave 1974/1975. -39 with 40 mph plus winds at the barracks. We had an earth quake that rumbled for about 20 seconds. We all thought we were about to get real cold real quick. Apparently, God was watching over us. kwg

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In 1985 the ambient ait temp got down to -25 for 2 days. I don't remember what the day or month. That's the lowest temp I remember and for tennessee that crazy low. I was 13 y.o. and it blew my mind that it could actually get that cold. It was dead calm though, not a breath of breeze.

If you google coldest places in the US, you'll note that a spot in Utah takes third place. It's Peter's Sink, just NE of Logan where a raw temp of -69�F was recorded in 1985 (the year I moved here.) In most winters, some TV station or other sends a crew up there to do a "spot" about it. They have NEVER succeeded. Invariably, the crew gets out of their truck, they set up the standup - and the cameras freeze solid.

It's damn cold there.

Ice fishing on North Bay, Lake Nipissing, Ontario.

-35F with 25 mph winds (about -70F wind chill)

When you went outside the hut to piss, it actually hurt (a lot).

Fish a few times on Simcoe when it was -25F.

It's a bitch when the zipper on your hut freezes, and you have to sew yourself in the hut with a straightened fish hook and 2# test line, with frozen hands.
When running the 4 wheelers, you have to stop quite a bit to hold the muffler with your frozen gloves to warm up before your hands freeze, and you can't work the throttle.
Froze my eyes a little once, seen double, driving all the way home (3 hour drive), and couldn't even read the road signs.

Yup, you REALLY got to LOVE ice fishing !!!

The coldest I have personally seen is -60 but the coldest I have ever felt was -40 with an 80mph wind ! Walking my trapline in those conditions was bit chilly.

Sitting on a horse in cold weather pretty much sucks worse than anything else.

True that, Sammo.


I didn't see the advantage of tapaderoes til I tried 'em in cold weather.

Last winter it was -23 @ 8am in January. Not a good day to be on a horse.

40 below.. last year.

Coldest water: 45�.. That shriveled my nuts right up.

Late 80s at Eielson AFB outside of Fairbanks, I think we had static temperatures down to -68. The south end of the base was lower than the north end and would usually run 10 degrees colder. We were having one of the multi-service BRIM FROST exercises. They had those poor Army guys over in the Tanana Flats and they had a number of serious frostbite cases before they had enough sense to evacuate/ENDEX the exercise.

Conversely deploying to the sandbox, I've seen something like 135. How many people can say they've experienced 200 degree temperature differences in their lifetime??

I was caught up in a Toronto white-out with those kind of temps. Had to gas up the rental car before I drove back to Buffalo. In the time it took to do so I actually grew about 50 welts all over my face and head from the bitter windy cold.

Long story short it took me 2 days to get back to Buffalo due to be grounded in Toronto. Coldest I ever remember but danged if I didn't have one heck of a time in Toronto. Oh man, oh man!! They do love Southerners!!

I remember that year well. I was recently married and living in an old drafty house here in NW Georgia. It only hit -9 here, but my mom and dad were visiting family in Kingsport TN. Dads car wouldn't start for 4-5 days until it warmed up. -25 is what I remember too.

I've seen single digits here a lot and -2 or -3 on rare occasions.

-16F about 3 years ago, freak cold front with a blanket of snow already on the ground. Temp hit -31 up in NE corner of the state..

I work in a zero degree freezer every day, cold really don't bother me.
I've camped in a pup tent in the Alaskan snow at -17, sat for hours on end with cold feet watching a grizzly den or in a frozen tree stand waiting for a buck and with the right gear, it really ain't all that bad.

You guys that live in the south with that sweltering hundred degree + heat and sticky, nasty humidity?..... you my friends are some seriously bad [bleep]...