Where were you the coldest?
Minnesota for me -30 one time, glad I don't live up there.
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Where were you the coldest?
Minnesota for me -30 one time, glad I don't live up there.
Deer hunting at the Tamarac back in the blizzard of 1994. Not sure what the temp was but it was a miserable bitch.
Dowd Junction can be miserable too.
Ft Drum, NY. We hit a patch where for 8 days the daytime highs were all negative with the worst having a high of -14 and a low of -32. I forget what the windchills were. And yes, PT was still going on. We came back from our runs with ice crystals on eyebrows, and for people wearing the ski mask there was a circle of frost on the fabric over the mouth. Never wanted to do the Thursday sergeant's time training so much before the entire time I was in.
Fraser, CO. -44*F working outside[Bang]
Wow...I checked my weather app and it shows 1 degree. No wonder your feathers are frosted! I won't mention that it's 79 here today...
Coldest I can remember was -17 up north of Craig while elk hunting one year. Although I remember one "spring" spent living in a tent in Korea with one diesel-fired heater while it was freezing cold outside. I still think it was -20 or lower, but it may have only felt that way.
First Scout Klondike at Kenoshas Pass with my son -20 tent camping.
Ft. Wainwright, AK. -50. Never going back there.
Toss up, feinsteins or pelosis snatch. Yeah I said it.
-75 windchill at the top of Crystal Mountain ski resort on Valentine's Day, many years ago. -42 measured temperature in a blizzard in Grand Forks, ND, when I was a kid.
-treading water in San Francisco bay next to a capsized boat for over an hour. Was so cold I couldn't talk when picked up by another boat.
-58, antelope hunting 1982, NW corner of CO near Powder Wash. Daytime high was -38. We stored the truck battery in the fridge.
-20 below or so in Casper before the wind chill. I don't want to think about what 40 or 50 below feel like.
Alamosa 2 weeks ago -33 and I was outside working, it was great fun.
There goes breakfastQuote:
Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh
-27*F at work, Feb 2011, the windchill took it to -54*F. Pretty miserable considering we were spending 10min rotations outside clearing snow from around the telescope and the road. If I recall, about 16" of snow fell during that storm, was miserable. My truck froze completely over and I couldn't get inside it.
Walked about 2.5 miles home in the blizzard of '82.
Add, Also Replacing Lamps and ballests in a commercial ice cream freezer. -40 degrees. Funnist part about that, it was the time that the outside temp was over 100 for 5-6 days in a row.
-72 Fairbanks, AK back in 1956 at Ladd AFB, now known as Fort Wainright, AK. At those temps, wearing starched fatigues was almost painful. At least there were no winds or breezes.
Alamosa last week -44
-50 snowboarding in the pocanos.... it was.the longest trip ever up the lift we took one pass down and spent the rest of the day in the lodge
The coldest I've ever felt was in Kyrgyzstan. I don't remember exactly how cold it was, but it was well below zero. Eff that place.
I had lost my driver's license for a year and was taking the bus at the time. We had a few record setting cold days that year. I remember one day was -28° and I was waiting for a late bus for over an hour.
Also, about 3 years ago, my dog chased some geese flying overhead out onto a frozen lake and fell through the ice. I went out & got him. As soon as I grabbed ahold of his paw, he had given up swimming & trying to get up on the ice. I broke through half my body, with only my legs still on the ice. My entire head, arms and torso were under water & my dog was that deep under water before I pulled him out. I put his paws on the ice, slid myself backward and out of the water, and then pulled him the rest of the way out. Then we walked back across the ice together. By the time I got inside the house, I was shaking uncontrollably and went straight into the shower. My ex towel dried my dog & laid with him to warm him back up.
Minnesota has is the coldest I've ever been. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the humidity.
-20*. I'm beginning to hate the cold so much here.
Oddly the coldest I have felt was Camp Pendleton. It was just under freezing but my fire team was not prepared to be left out all night for patrol. It was the coldest I have felt. I was dressed for it so when I was out in -70 windchill in WI I actually felt warmer.
-60 something, that's in Celsius, static air temp. windchill is unknown.
-60 in Nome, AK for some reason i though sledding would be fun...it was not
Good dog story. It's amazing how selfless true love is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lex_Luthor