Coldest you've ever been

[farmo83]

Enlight of the current cold snap

What is the coldest you've ever been?

 

[Bpracing1127]

0 in mammoth

 

[Thunderhead1]

Right now in Havasu.... Might have to put some socks on pretty soon.... its horrible.

 

[SBMech]

-30 with a wind chill factor of -80.

So fucking cold you can't breath out of your mouth.

 

[Icky]

-40 ish in an ice-cream freezer

 

[C-Ya]

15 degrees….. Big Bear

I must admit……. I have been avoiding snow for the last 25 years. I’ve been pretty successful too. I intend to keep the streak going!

 

[monkeyswrench]

0...I thought I'd die. Bought my first set of insulated coveralls that day.

 

[Tremor Therapy]

-15 degrees when I landed at the Rapid City, SD airport, haircare, and tire center.

 

[RCDave]

About 25 below in Mammoth Lakes, Ca!

 

[Cray Paper]

Back in 92? it was like -5 with no wind chill factor in Bothell WA. I was a 1st period apprentice carpenter and was daily driving a 74 K5 blazer. I got up at 4:30am that morning and started the truck, scraped ice and snow for 10 minutes then jumped on I405 heading south to my project in Renton. My old pig took forever to warm up, when I pulled off on the Sunrise Exit ( long down hill run) and came to a stop I got hit in the back of the head with an ice cold bucket of water. The fiberglass top had warmed to above freezing and the frozen condensation melted and was a cold as fuck wake up call.
I was on a large commercial wood framing job and all of the materials were welded (2"+ of ice) to the wood framed deck. We took turns going in to the parking garage to warm up next to a 55 gallon drum fire. It was the coldest I have ever been, think with the wind-chill it was like -35.

 

[Cobalt232]

-27 in Glenwood Springs Colorado in college in the 80's. I worked part-time at the gas station/carwash. No car washes that day.

 

[mjc]

About 0 in Minneapolis. I was so dry and with the sun out i didn’tteven wear a jacket. Thoigh i will never fo it again. That was my first experiencewith dry powdersnow, blowing like sand.

 

[Bobby V]

-166* in a cryotherapy room for 3 minutes.

 

[jetboatperformance]

Skied Tahoe side Heavenly in sub zero and blizzard conditions , Lift tickets were too expensive to not , took days to warm back up

 

[Brian]

-5 in Indianapolis

 

[Ace in the Hole]

Back in 92? it was like -5 with no wind chill factor in Bothell WA. I was a 1st period apprentice carpenter and was daily driving a 74 K5 blazer. I got up at 4:30am that morning and started the truck, scraped ice and snow for 10 minutes then jumped on I405 heading south to my project in Renton. My old pig took forever to warm up, when I pulled off on the Sunrise Exit ( long down hill run) and came to a stop I got hit in the back of the head with an ice cold bucket of water. The fiberglass top had warmed to above freezing and the frozen condensation melted and was a cold as fuck wake up call.
I was on a large commercial wood framing job and all of the materials were welded (2"+ of ice) to the wood framed deck. We took turns going in to the parking garage to warm up next to a 55 gallon drum fire. It was the coldest I have ever been, think with the wind-chill it was like -35.

It was -5 in Leavenworth this morning I don’t remember ever coming here a year this cold. 100% coldest I’ve ever been

 

[jet496]

-30 with a wind chill factor of -80.

So fucking cold you can't breath out of your mouth.

This. Artic blast in the early 80's back in the midwest. I love San Diego!

 

[riverroyal]

That one time I swerved to run a cat over.

Thats a different kinda cold....

 

[boatpi]

Many times 41 below zero without wind chill. This was taken not quite two years ago on Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada and it was 41 below.

 

[Cray Paper]

It was -5 in Leavenworth this morning

Did you go out and work in it for 8 hours?

 

[hallett21]

-10ish in Vail CO

 

[Starloans]

I was stationed in Iceland for 18 months. It was cold to be sure and with the wind it was horrific. Temps with out the wind were pretty much a above 0 most of the winter. BUT the wind blew like hell. We had a saying that it always snowed sideways. Whiteouts were common. With the wind chill temps would be below 0. It was a cold place in the winter. Summers were in the 60s. Remember, Greenland is frozen almost year-round and Iceland is green in the summer. The Vikings named Iceland that way to keep people from coming there.

The northern part of Iceland is inside the arctic circle and it gets pretty cold up there. Never went.

The coldest temp I've ever experienced......not sure. Maybe Detroit once while I was there.

There is a place in UT I would like to visit called Peter Sinks that is routinely the coldest place in the lower 48 year-round. Even in summer Peter Sinks rarely goes 4 days without freezing. Peter Sinks has the second coldest temp ever recorded in the lower 48, -69 behind Rogers Pass, MT at -70 in 1954.

 

[JayBreww]

96.6.

 

[ka0tyk]

-14 chicago. Got a nosebleed when my nose defrosted.

 

[Nordie]

Robinson Summit North of Ely, NV. We got sent up there for a solar deal. I hurried up and unloaded a truck, I went to step out of the forklift and realized my knees wouldn't bend. It was 7° with sustained 30mph winds. I've never been so cold in my life.

 

[Yoshiro]

-47 in Fairbanks, AK. I walked out of the airport and walked right back in. Took my breath away. First breath my nose hair froze.

Weird things happen at those temps. Your hearing becomes bionic, you hear everything. I threw a cup of warm water in the air and it vaporized, never hit the ground.

 

[outboard_256]

I don't do good in the cold. I think 10 degrees is the coldest I have been in.

 

[YeahYeah01]

My wife is from Wisconsin.. When we were dating we flew out in January, as soon as we went outside, I looked at her and said I might not make it and I think I will go back inside and get a flight home. It was like -15 and windy as well so the windchill it was hitting below 20. Then on the trip it there was a feaking blizzard and its dropped over a foot of snow. During said blizzard her aunt and uncle said oh we got steaks and are going to BBQ tonight. I thought they were kidding but no, they legit rolled the BBQ out, proceeded to BBQ in a blizzard, not under shelter or anything. Them midwest people are nuts.

 

[was thatguy]

-62 Ambient.
-142 wind chill
No bullshit. Prudhoe bay.
Around ‘95 o so.
2 nights in a row.
It’s like being on the moon.
This is not my video, but this is what it’s like during a phase 3 blow.

 

[USMC2010]

I grew up in NW South Dakota, I've seen -36 air temp, possibly colder than that before I started following temps.

 

[beerrun]

In the coast guard out on a 30' surf rescue boat searching for person in the water on the Columbia River we would that turns between the 3 of us 5min in the engine 10 min on deck trying to get warm

 

[USMC2010]

-47 in Fairbanks, AK. I walked out of the airport and walked right back in. Took my breath away. First breath my nose hair froze.

Weird things happen at those temps. Your hearing becomes bionic, you hear everything. I threw a cup of warm water in the air and it vaporized, never hit the ground.

Damp eyelashes will also stick while blinking

 

[OC Mike]

-62 Ambient.
-142 wind chill
No bullshit. Prudhoe bay.
Around ‘95 o so.
2 nights in a row.
It’s like being on the moon.
This is not my video, but this is what it’s like during a phase 3 blow.

WOW. You win.. Can't wait to NEVER go there.

 

[SBMech]

Seems like more than a few of us experienced that artic cold front in the early 80's where Co and a few other mid-west states got hit with -20 to -50 ambient temps for a week or so. No school all week!

 

[was thatguy]

Seems like more than a few of us experienced that artic cold front in the early 80's where Co and a few other mid-west states got hit with -20 to -50 ambient temps for a week or so. No school all week!

It was -21 this morning when I got off work.
Wyoming.
It’s supposed to be -26 tonight sometime.

 

[USMC2010]

It was -21 this morning when I got off work.
Wyoming.
It’s supposed to be -26 tonight sometime.

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Somewhat normal winter weather for the northern plains, just early this year.

 

[was thatguy]

Somewhat normal winter weather for the northern plains, just early this year.

Yep
Spent many winters working in ND, CO, WY, MT, etc.

 

[Dan Lorenze]

Funny this topic came up, I was thinking about this today as I was on Chair 9 at Mammoth Mountain, because when I was in High School many years ago a ride on Chair 9 was the coldest I've ever been, maybe zero degrees. Then I went to Moscow for the New Years a few years ago. I remember walking around Red Square and the Kremlin, below zero. It was brutal. So I will say Moscow in sub zero temps is the coldest I have been so far.

 

[FreeBird236]

I've never really been less than about 10* in Big Bear. Right now, our Great Falls neighbors are monitoring their house pretty closely, it's been between 52-55 inside their home with the furnace running on a low setting, it's been about -30 the last couple days. His cabin is -10 inside.

 

[monkeyswrench]

-62 Ambient.
-142 wind chill
No bullshit. Prudhoe bay.
Around ‘95 o so.
2 nights in a row.
It’s like being on the moon.
This is not my video, but this is what it’s like during a phase 3 blow.

That's not a mud room, that's a damn air lock! Honestly, I think it would be cool to do it "part time". It would be like interstellar travel There's been a job posted for quite awhile, snowmobile and small engine mechanic...Antarctica. Be a neat gig for a season, just to do it.

 

[USMC2010]

That's not a mud room, that's a damn air lock! Honestly, I think it would be cool to do it "part time". It would be like interstellar travel There's been a job posted for quite awhile, snowmobile and small engine mechanic...Antarctica. Be a neat gig for a season, just to do it.

A year and a half ago I had an interview for a job at Parmer station Antarctica for the Feb-Aug shift (winter). I was bummed I didn't get to go, I think it would have been a fantastic experience.

 

[TCHB]

Crested Butte ski trip. 20 below!

 

[JDKRXW]

-40f many many times throughout my entire life.
Kamsack, Saskatchewan in 1997. One morning between Christmas and New Years day - it was dead calm and the temp was -50f.
I won't forget that and there is a brutal difference between -40 and -50.

 

[was thatguy]

That's not a mud room, that's a damn air lock! Honestly, I think it would be cool to do it "part time". It would be like interstellar travel There's been a job posted for quite awhile, snowmobile and small engine mechanic...Antarctica. Be a neat gig for a season, just to do it.

I worked in Prudhoe for 18 years.

 

[evantwheeler]

Skiing in sun valley as a kid. Probably 10 years old so sometime in the early 90’s. Came to find out my boots were packed with snow between the shell and liner. I dont remember how cold it was, but i remember my dad pushing me to keep skiing, likely because of the cost of the trip and ticket. When we got to the lodge, he changed his tune after we took apart my boots and had some sympathy for my discomfort and pain.

Enlight of the current cold snap

What is the coldest you've ever been?

 

[HNL2LHC]

-12 snow boarding in Vail CO

 

[grumpy88]

Many times 41 below zero without wind chill. This was taken not quite two years ago on Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada and it was 41 below.

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When I was younger we were there . We were jumping off the 3rd floor into the snow drifts . I love that place !

 

[Outdrive1]

Basic training. Kentucky winter. Falling out in formation in the middle of the night, and they told us we couldn’t get dressed first. It was cold as fuck. While we were outside they dumped all our lockers in a big pile in the middle of the barracks. Oh those were fun times, lol. Part of how you get broken down and built back up so you learn how to become a well oiled killing machine.

 

[spectras only]

Coldest wind chill ever recorded was-100F in McGrath Alaska in 1989 and -128.6at Vostok station in Antarctica Have not seen -142 anywhere on the planet.

 

[samsah33]

One time the wife came downstairs dressed for a night out and I asked her what was she planning on wearing out and how long it would take her to get ready... Still get occasional chills from that one...