Yes it’s COLD….whats the coldest You’ve had to endure?
Jan 16, 2024 18:38:36 #
For me just -21deg when we surfaced at the North Pole on one of the Submarines I served on. You would think it would be much colder than that but for the few days we were there it never got any colder. It did feel cold.
Jan 16, 2024 18:57:25 #
sroter
Loc: Montreal,Quebec. Canada
-40 with the wind chill.
Shooting Owls at St. Hubert airport.
Quebec, Canada
Shooting Owls at St. Hubert airport.
Quebec, Canada
Jan 17, 2024 04:43:51 #
Jan 17, 2024 07:59:06 #
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.. 
Hmmm... in the winter of '89 - or was it '88? - Outside of Fairbanks, near Donnely Dome, is the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL) where temps were in the -70's .... never got above -40 for 30 days. Cameras shredded sprocket holes and static electricity streaked and fogged film... it wasn't very pleasant. However, twilight had the most gorgeous purples, plums and violets.
There is what is known as the "Cold Triangle" that droops unevenly from around the North Pole into North America, Russia and Greenland that consistently has the coldest temperatures (in the Northern Hemisphere) and, I believe, until a few years ago, the coldest recorded temp was -88F at Snag, in Canada's Northwest Territory.
Jan 17, 2024 10:24:56 #
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
Interesting cold snap we are having... It was -2 this morning at my home in central Arkansas. Coldest I can remember for here! But making "Snow Ice Cream" helps, lol!
Jan 17, 2024 11:40:46 #
Retina
Loc: Near Charleston,SC
-45F in Black River, NY. Thankfully there was no wind. With a stiff wind I recall one day at -35F. Both were the 1960's. It gave me respect for people in North Dakota and other midwest states who get both -40's AND wind.
Jan 17, 2024 12:53:20 #
Per the National weather service the coldest record day in Fort Wayne Indiana was January 20, 1985 with a low temperature of - 22 F and a high of -11. In 2022 our lowest temp was - 9 on January 26. The lowest i have seen this years a round -6 on the outside thermometer.
Jan 17, 2024 14:44:05 #
BillyP
Loc: Cedar Point, NC
69 below. 300 miles north of Alaska on the Icebreaker. I would pull my camera out from my parka and get two shots, if I was lucky, before the film snapped. Battery might last 15 minutes. That was with a Canon AE-1.
Jan 17, 2024 18:59:13 #
Jan 17, 2024 19:24:04 #
Micheld
Loc: North Augusta SC
AndyT wrote:
Divorce court.
Been there, done that. Coldest chill I have ever felt
Jan 17, 2024 19:30:14 #
scallihan
Loc: Tigard, OR
My little wimpy -8 camping at Mahogany Flat (8,133') on Telescope Peak in Death Valley to see one of the big meteors (I forget which) in the '90s. But it was camping -- in a pickup truck bed/camper shell, sleeping bags, and a container of kitty litter :). Hard road up there, too. Yes, our water bag was frozen in the morning. It was not comfortable, but awesome view of the meteor.
Jan 17, 2024 22:23:16 #
Retina
Loc: Near Charleston,SC
BillyP wrote:
69 below. 300 miles north of Alaska on the Icebreaker. I would pull my camera out from my parka and get two shots, if I was lucky, before the film snapped. Battery might last 15 minutes. That was with a Canon AE-1.
Thank you for your serv-ice. I can't imagine those conditions.
Jan 17, 2024 22:53:23 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
turp77 wrote:
For me just -21deg when we surfaced at the North Pole on one of the Submarines I served on. You would think it would be much colder than that but for the few days we were there it never got any colder. It did feel cold.
How thick of an ice layer can a sub break through?
Jan 18, 2024 11:09:59 #
Wyantry wrote:
AND we are all waiting for someone who has been to McMurdo Station to check in . . . .
Speaking of which, today 18 January.... "1947: As a part of Adm. Richard E. Byrds Antarctic expedition, Operation Highjump, 166 Seabees sailed from Port Hueneme, California, in December 1946. The Seabees sailed on the USS Yancey and the USS Merrick. The USS Yancey arrived alongside the ice of the Bay of Whales, Antarctica, on 18 January 1947, and the USS Merrick arrived shortly afterwards. The Seabee detachment, part of a total complement of 4,000 men and 13 ships, then proceeded with their assigned tasks at Little America 4 in Antarctica. They unloaded equipment and supplies, set up a temporary naval base, built housing, a mess hall and storage facilities. They also built a temporary airstrip, an emergency base further inland and a communications system. The Seabees did all this work during the Antarctic summer, with temperatures ranging from approximately 30 degrees above zero to 26 degrees below zero. "
Jan 18, 2024 16:06:04 #
We're finally having some great weather. It's very hot. I got up and I still haven't put any clothes on, far too hot this morning. I hope I don't forget to put something on before I venture outside, you can get used to being nude after a while and forget. As for the coldest, for me, probably a few degrees below zero, but that's not been very many times in my life. It gets much colder down in the South Island though. That's why by far the most Maori were, and still are, in the North Island.
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