Yes it’s COLD….whats the coldest You’ve had to endure?
Jan 13, 2024 10:56:24 #
For me it was early January 1980ish, -29°f with wind chill -59°f.
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Jan 13, 2024 11:00:31 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
So for you northern folks, was that still “chilly” or had it progressed to cold? My Finnish friend up there would probably have considered that sweater weather. But when he’s in Missouri and we have a very typical 90 degree summer day he about dies from heat exhaustion.
Jan 13, 2024 11:03:44 #
~-20°F I think, in Southern Ontario, the end of December in 1997.
Jan 13, 2024 11:12:41 #
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Jan 13, 2024 11:38:13 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
For me it was early January 1980ish, -29°f with wind chill -59°f.
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
We are in the middle of a blizzard here. Most roads in Iowa are closed. It will be about -17 tonight. Windchill warnings in effect.
Jan 13, 2024 11:53:08 #
I have you all beat. I went to school for a few years in Alamosa, CO (7200' above sea level). Before global warming, it was often one of the coldest places in the nation. One night my car broke down when it was -36 (acutal temp, not wind chill). Fortunately someone stopped and gave us a ride to town.
Jan 13, 2024 12:09:42 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
For me it was early January 1980ish, -29°f with wind chill -59°f.
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Guessing around early 90's. I was a scoutmaster and had only 6 of my older scouts out on a wilderness survival campout. -25 below zero with a -50 below windchill. No tents allowed. Boy's spent night sleeping on the ground, and we all survived. The rest of the unit came out and spent the day with us. Until you have spent a entire weekend out in the cold without any indoor facilities you really don't know what cold is.
Jan 13, 2024 12:10:12 #
Northern Michigan, Jan-Feb of 1994, -30°f to -45°f for about a month and a half, actual Temp not wind chill.
Below, me coming in after being out cutting wood - daytime temp was -39°f.
Below, me coming in after being out cutting wood - daytime temp was -39°f.
Jan 13, 2024 12:12:14 #
Jan 13, 2024 12:57:48 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
For me it was early January 1980ish, -29°f with wind chill -59°f.
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
-60, Fairbanks Alaska ' 50s&60s. The cold weather bus didn't run until -40, we walked to school. None of this wind chill crap, actual temp. We grew up tough , not like these p ______ , panseys of today..
Jan 13, 2024 13:27:15 #
Jan 13, 2024 14:05:37 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
For me it was early January 1980ish, -29°f with wind chill -59°f.
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
-20c in Moscow in 1987. Beautiful sunny day. We decided to walk back to our Hotel. So cold it was really painful on exposed skin surfaces (cheeks) even though well wrapped up with fur hat. We quickly ducked into the closest Metro underground. I think it would have been impossible to complete the walk.
Jan 13, 2024 14:36:46 #
One Rude Dawg wrote:
-60, Fairbanks Alaska ' 50s&60s. The cold weather bus didn't run until -40, we walked to school. None of this wind chill crap, actual temp. We grew up tough , not like these p ______ , panseys of today..
I agree with you on the wind chill crap. Unless you intend to run around naked outside it is really totally meaningless.
Jan 13, 2024 14:45:52 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
For me it was early January 1980ish, -29°f with wind chill -59°f.
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
Lansing, Mich.
How about You?
-43°F, 30-35 mph winds, end of Dec. '75 or beginning of Jan '76, North Dakota in the region around Minot. Never heard anyone mention the term "windchill" in our whereabouts in those days. (There were other things said about the wind, but I won't add them here. 😁 ) Windchill charts show around -78°F -- -80°F for those conditions.
May have been some colder other days when there was no thermometer to see, don't know. I just know that day we were on the highway into town for a while, and I saw a thermometer on a building when we were in there.
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