dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Not sure if you mean just the term "windchill" is totally meaningless. The wind at those temps is definitely not meaningless.
Working outdoors in those temps for several hours at a time is very, very different when it's calm compared to wind blowing. Just being able to duck behind a hay stack, or even a patch of brush to get out of the full blast of wind for a couple minutes, now and then, is a welcomed luxury.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Looks like you had a reasonably short period out cutting wood for that shot. Your nostril icicles weren't yet down frozen to your chin whiskers, and you didn't have a chin whisker ice flow frozen to the top of your coat.

neillaubenthal

April in the Arctic Ocean at the ice camp shooting submarine launched torpedoes for testing. Overnight lows were down to -20 or so but humidity was essentially 0…so as long as the wind wasn't blowing it actually didn't feel that cold and walking around the camp thermal underwear, clothes, and a sweater were enough…one only put on the Nanuck of the North gear if heading out of camp for whatever reason. One of the activities that happened a lot was mining ice for fresh water…you want old ice which is blue because old ice has had the salt from the ocean gradually fall out out the bottom of the ice resulting in fresh water you could drink. Mining ice…one took out a snow machine with a trailer, a pickaxe and a shovel. By the time you got a couple minutes into the work…off came the parka and heavy gloves although the ski gloves underneath stayed on so your hands didn't freeze to the handles and you actually started to sweat a bit…but once done mining you got the parka back on pretty quickly as you got cold fast.

I don't actually know what the lowest temp was…but after each torpedo was launched it floated up to the ice and you basically drill a big hole through it to recover the exercise torpedo. Once in the hole…it got lifted out by a helicopter…we used some old Hueys from the Vietnam war that we hired from NOAA. I can tell you that standing underneath the helo while hooking up the cable to the torpedo and guiding it out of the hole you simply can't have enough clothes to be warm. I'm guessing the wind chill was probably 50 below at least.

photosbyhenry Loc: Apple Valley MN

-55 wind chill. JAN. 1995

Martys Loc: Lubec, Maine

26 below zero (w/o windchill factor), skiing at New Hampshire's Wildcat Mountain,....but I had a flask of Galliano
Italian sweet liqueur to sip throughout the day to keep me warm,....beautiful scenic adventure from back in the early 1960s.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Mid 60's in Western Kentucky, -8°F on the thermometer on the enclosed porch of the farm house, so it was colder than that. A pretty stiff wind blowing, at least 20 mph. News/weather on TV said -20 windchill with 10mph wind. No clouds and over 12" of snow on the ground.
A friend and I went rabbit hunting, we thought the snow would make them easier to see and slower. The rabbits were smarter than us, they didn't come out. So after about an hour we split up and headed back to our family farm houses 1/4 mile apart. Inside the heated house, frost formed on my shotgun and didn't melt for over 1/2 hour. Even the gun oil on the metal was frozen. And frost formed on the rubber boots I was wearing over my shoes when I went inside the house.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

-35 °F February 28, 1962. Mitchell, South Dakota

buckwheat Loc: Clarkdale, AZ and Belen NM

When I lived in Alamosa, -28 was as cold as it got. But, I found a cool -40 in Casper Wyoming. When I was in high school in Boulder, every winter I walked to school at least a couple of days at -20. But it was not uphill and I wasn't barefoot.

Nodpete Loc: Naperville, IL

-56 below (not wind chill) back in the late 50's in Amasa, Michigan. I was in high school and we had school that day. Our school had radiators for heat and they were along the outside wall. We wore our coats and gloves all day. You won't see that as the coldest temp recorded in MI. but it was on the official thermometer in our town that was reported to the local newpaper.

Equus Loc: Puget Sound

1975-76 12 weeks of -40 or below. No wind chill. One night went out and it dropped to -70. Had heat wave after 12 weeks and it got up to -20.

1983 South Pole. Highest temp that I saw was -56. We did get some wind during that summer. 6 Weeks later they had -130.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

When I returned from a trip and the only correspondence I had sent my girlfriend was a card that read, "Sorry I haven't written sooner but I'm a lover not a writer." Talk about a cold, cold reception.

JBRIII

-94 wind chill, skiing at Breck, CO. Record low for Oakland, MD is -40 which I doubt one in 20 people in the state would believe.

NDMarks Loc: Dublin, Ca

This will sound funny to most of you, but the coldest I ever "felt" was 75 degrees in Thailand in the summer. It had been 110 or more for several weeks and our bodies were accustomed to it when all of a sudden it dropped to 75. Our bodies took awhile to readjust.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

As dustie said, windchill is definitely something to take into consideration when you’re outside. I was screwing with the livestock water system today and anyone who believes it doesn’t is welcome to help tomorrow.

Humidity also makes a difference. I’ve been in some cold temps in Colorado but it didn’t feel as cold as higher temperatures in Missouri. A fellow I worked with was posted in Alamosa CO and he said it would be so cold that the diffraction of the ice crystals in the air would cause mirages. He said one time a house that was a mile away looked like it was several hundred yards away. He figured that’s how people froze to death, they set out for some place that kept getting farther away.

As for humidity, believe me that 40 degrees in Florida at night in February while on a motorcycle is VERY cold. The humid cold goes right through a leather coat and several sweaters underneath. And that was behind a fairing.

lukevaliant Loc: gloucester city,n. j.

i remember at my mother in laws house,nevermind, i'll see myself out!