What is the coldest temperature you have ever experienced... lab liquid nitrogen does not count unless you were frozen for prosperity.

"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland) 01/30/2019 at 09:53 • Filed to: Ice Ice baby

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1. temperature in degrees C or F

2. Date

3. Location like Provence, State, country or neutral territory like the Beta quadrant.

For science!!!

Me:

1. -37 deg. F

2. Mid January 1995

3. Butte Montana, USA

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:02

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-320°F, May 2783, location unknown. 

CB > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:02

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-48 Celsius

Currently

RM of Ponass Lake, Saskatchewan

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/30/2019 at 10:02

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Space doesn’t count unless you are an actual astronaut and have done a space walk.

WRXforScience > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:07

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1. -40 (it’s the same in both F and C!)

2. First week of 2018

3. Sioux Falls, SD

My 94 year old grandfather was hospitalized and my brother, Dad, and I drove up from Texas on an emergency trip. My grandpa was better before we got there  but for the week we were in SD, the highest high temperature was -5F (the high on the coldest day was -19F). The temps dropped below -40 but we didn’t go outside and I don’t remember exactly where they ended up (I was excited for -40 since it’s the same in F and C).

facw > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:08

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Honestly I don’t remember the specifics. I’ve been in the negative single digits a few times, but ultimately that’s not cold enough to force any specific changes.

There was a week in 89 or 90 where they didn’t let us go outside for recess, but I think that was just due to single digit temps.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:08

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I could use some extra money. How much is being frozen for prosperity worth these days?  :P

Azrek > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:08

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I will put a few question marks on this as I was a bit young to remember, but I will give you commentary.

We had a 1982 Ford Escort in northern Wisconsin in the mid-80s. It was a serious blizzard and I had to goto school. So mom went into the garage and I climbed into the back seat and saw the rear window looked funny.

It was so cold it froze the rear window of the car in the garage and shattered it. We closed the door, gently, and it completely fell into the car. A neighbor took me took me too school and I walked home. 

fintail > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:11

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Maybe -15F

S ometime in the mid 80s

Moses Lake WA

Funktheduck > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:11

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Don’t know specifics but I’ve experienced high teens to low 20s (F) a few times. Including this morning, right here in the South (Georgia). 

vondon302 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:12

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Ive been up above the Soo in Canada at -18 but this morning h as to have been close.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/02/27/detroit-cold-record/24111767/

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:13

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I like how that's your concern. 

UnderSTeerEnthusiast - Triumph Fanboy > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:16

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-23F  (with windchill), Cincinnati, today

Future next gen S2000 owner > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:18

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Like outside for an extended period or just, hey it’s cold outside, I’m going to stay inside.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:19

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I’ve done negative single digits to somewhere around -10f in various parts of New Mexico a bunch of times (skiing, or otherwise just a rare cold snap). The coldest I’ve ever slept outside in was a night with a low right around 0f on Glorietta Mesa in Northern NM (2007ish, maybe?) for a cold weather exercise with the Marine Corps. The gauge for cold was the nights over the years when all the dozens upon dozen of 5 gallon water jugs were frozen solid in the morning. The sleeping wasn’t bad at all, but watch that night was a cold couple of hours doing nothing.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:20

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10F

Mukilteo, WA

1997

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Future next gen S2000 owner 01/30/2019 at 10:24

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Yes that counts.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/30/2019 at 10:25

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And you lived to tell about it!

3point8isgreat > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:28

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-30C,

Milford, MI, vehicle test chamber

2012

jimz > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:30

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Me:

1) -50°C (-58°F)

2) various points during 2006-2007

3) Livonia, MI

‘course, these were inside an Envirotronics WPH drive in chamber.  We’d rotate being the unlucky schmuck who had to go in there to unstick a test fixture or take parametric  measurements. 

AfromanGTO > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:34

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It hit -48 F when I was living in Illinois back in 96-97. I remember two days in a row of colder than -25 F.

I hate the cold , and prefer a hot summer day with it being well over 100 with 100 percent humidity.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AfromanGTO 01/30/2019 at 10:35

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That’s impressively cold for the mid west.

Tripper > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:36

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A windy -10F

Burlington/Stowe, VT

Jan/Feb Circa 2008

Future next gen S2000 owner > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:41

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-13 F, UP spent the night outside on a scout trip. February 20 00?20 01?

Just could outside, a few -20 F while growing up. Enough of them happened that I can’t remember every individual time.

DipodomysDeserti > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:44

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-10F

Winter sometime in college. 2006 I think.

Flagstaff, Arizona

Had to take a cold shower because the pilot light went out on the water heater  and wouldn’t re light.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:53

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-22 F
Chicago, IL
30 January 2019

I think.

Tapas > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:54

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What were you doing up in Montana’s Butte?

AfromanGTO > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:56

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Yeah we moved there at what seemed like the worst year. That summer they had a bunch of tornadoes and that winter had record colds. We left after leaving in that hell hole for 11 months.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Tapas 01/30/2019 at 10:56

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Richest hole on earth.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:59

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Or did I? 

MonkeePuzzle > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 10:59

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asked a girl out, she laughed then walked away without verbal reply.

Tapas > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:02

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Username checks out.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:05

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It hit 5 degrees F in Nashville in 2015 . They shut down schools because nothing could keep them war m enough .

McMike > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:05

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We lived in Minot ND for a year back in the 80s. There were things I experienced for the first time.

Block heaters on everything

Interior pre-heaters

That throw hot water in the air and make clouds trick

Leaving your car running while you went into the store often

Flesh freeze warnings across the bottom of the TV screen as if it was a thunderstorm warning.

-40F temp one night.

-100F wind chill temps that same night.

Audio Tachometer > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:15

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-28 dungarees Frankenstein in Bozeman a few years back. Went skiing. They closed the lifts until it warmed up to -10.

vondon302 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:15

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Uupdate

Aapparently it was -21 in Met ro Detroit in 84 so  that’s it.

I guess I don’t remember cause it wasn’t called the polar vortex hailstorm of death. .

WilliamsSW > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:18

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- 27F, 1/ 20/ 1985 in Chicago. Coldest it has ever been in Chicago. And I did drive my 72 Monte Carlo over to my dad’s to watch the Super Bowl that day. That car was a champ. 

vicali > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:18

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1. -48C

2. Nov 2001

3. Liard River

Forestry fly in Tent camp;

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:18

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Back on 2/27/ 2014 I saw -32°F while driving . It was -30°F when I pulled into my driveway, so I ran outside with no shirt on because it was the coldest I’d ever seen the temperature. It was painfully cold, even after only about 10 seconds.

i86hotdogs > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 11:49

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December 2016, at the Bears game against the Packers. It was so cold, they were letting people into the clubhouse area where it was heated and covered. Stadium’s temp showed -10 F. We tried to stay outside as much as we could, but my beer and vodka (not together) drinks were frozen solid. Bears blew that game too. Wouldn’t recommend.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > McMike 01/30/2019 at 11:51

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Minot, you might as well live in canada at that point.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Audio Tachometer 01/30/2019 at 11:55

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Bozeman doesn’t get as cold as it used to, all the Californians have warmed it up.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > MonkeePuzzle 01/30/2019 at 11:56

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LOL. I guess we can call that cold AF.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) 01/30/2019 at 11:56

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Temp still dropping.

KnowsAboutCars > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 12:03

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According to statistics I found the coldest it’s been around these parts of the country in my lifetime is -31,3 C (-23,8 F), so probably that.

Edit: 3rd of january 2003, Helsinki, Finland

wkiernan > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 12:08

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When I was a kid it got down below -30° F in Cleveland one day. This was accompanied with that infamous Lake Erie wind. That was something else; you’d be walking down the sidewalk, come out from behind a parked car, and the wind would knock you right off your feet, so you learned to lean into it when coming out from behind any wind block . I went outside in that -30° jazz for, like, two minutes, and when I came in the tip of my nose was frost-bit.

RickSanchez:Fury Road Edition aka Junkrat > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 12:10

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-55F with windchill

Hill 249, South Korea. Feb 1999.

Nothing > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 12:51

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-40 F. January/February  temps in generally can get into the -30s during cold snaps.

Massena, NY

Some date in the 80s. It was more common for school to get canceled/delayed for wind chill than precipitation during the winter. When I was growing up, -20 F (without wind chill) was the temp cutoff for school delays.

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 13:03

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1. -23 F, high temp was -7 F

2. January 1 2018

3. Sangamon County, Illinois

I had to work at a fast food restaurants window without a coat or gloves. After 30 minutes I threatened to sue so they took me off

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 13:45

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It’s warmed up. All the way to -14, but the wind chill is still -41.

Audio Tachometer > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 15:27

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I tend to stay away from that town . But I’m surprised the warming trend isn’t counteracted by the frosty attitude of all the snobby hipsters.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Audio Tachometer 01/30/2019 at 15:29

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IPA’s best served frosty, or is it warm, I can’t keep up with the trends.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/30/2019 at 16:14

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Janurary 14th 1999. The closest weather station with searchable history to where I was records the low temp of the day as -31 F, however I was up in the hills ~20 miles away from that station (Stowe-Morrisville State Airport) and the thermometer outside my college dorm in Johnson VT read -42 F . I had a 1989 Mazda Protege LX and I went to start it because I needed to go buy cigarettes (man I’m glad I quit smoking...) , It had a good, newish battery, so I figured it was worth a try. It cranked, slowly , but didn’t seem to catch, so I let off the key and it continued to turn.

putt.

putt putt.

putt. putt-tt , putt.

The tach needle sort of bounced off the peg every “putt” it made, but never actually moved up to the lowest mark on the face at 500 .

I made the mistake of trying to let the clutch out and it died immediately. It restarted surprisingly easi ly but it took it nearly a minute before it made it to regular cold idle RPM. Even after the engine reached normal idle, the trans was so stiff I could barely shift, and letting my foot off the clutch, the pedal slowly oooozed back up, rather than returning normally. That made driving in  the snow exciting. I’m sure some things were not lubricated correctly during that time, but it ran fine for another 100K miles.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 01/30/2019 at 16:26

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Sounds like starting my 510 in butte when it was -15. One of the few times I was grateful for low compression.

RangerSmith > vondon302 01/30/2019 at 20:44

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Spent a couple years as a kid in Soo, MI. January 1997 was brutal up there. The entirety of Lake Superior froze over. It also snowed on the 4th of July up there in either 1998 or 1999. Only place I’ve ever seen the college coeds sunbathing at 40*F

A few years later, I moved to California. I then realized that not everyone could accurately guess how cold it was(within a few degrees ) during single digit temps when out in Tahoe. Similar to how most people can tell the difference between 65*F and 70*F

vondon302 > RangerSmith 01/31/2019 at 07:03

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Yup went camping in August up there one year. Froze  my butt off.

wafflesnfalafel > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/31/2019 at 19:24

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N othing super exciting - was up in AK for a wedding over a decade ago, got down to like -7. Anchorage, no wind and it was dry so it really didn’t feel that cold. Coldest it’s ever been at the house here was exactly 0 for just one day when we had a super cold snap a number of years ago - front faucet started dripping inside the cover which caused some concern, but after everything melted it was fine.

19JRC99 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/31/2019 at 19:46

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Is this windchill or no?

If so:

Today

-35F

South East Michigan.

Honestly, non windchill today was like -15 for a while so it’s probably just today all around. 

T5Killer > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/01/2019 at 16:39

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March 28th 2010

Fort Sill Oklahoma,

-9 F

I was in Basic Training and finishing up our FTX (Field Training Exercise) We were sleeping in tents and training in mock Villages and FOBs learning how to look for IEDs and work with local populations. That night we had to defend our little base from an “attack” from folks picked by the DS to be OPFOR. It was so much fun but bad weather rolled in and it started to snow. The storm got bad in the middle of the night and all the diesel fuel jellied keeping the tent heaters from working. 7 or 8 inches of snow fell overnight so there was no transportation from the field. We had to ruck out in the cold back to the barracks. Good times!