Author Topic: Coldest outside temperature you've been in? (Read 1127 times)

SaburoS · « **Reply #30 on:** January 24, 2003, 03:15:50 PM »

Two years of my childhood was spent in Kodiak, Alaska. I loved it!
Don't remember the temps but I do remember that some days it hurt to breathe.

Leslie · « **Reply #31 on:** January 24, 2003, 03:18:36 PM »

I'm a lightweight when it comes to cold weather, living in the heart of Dixie. The coldest temps I ever "endured" was while deer hunting in a "brisk" 18 degrees F. while perched 40 feet up in a pine tree for about three hours. Saw a very nice buck too, but he didn't give me a good shot, (front half hidden behind a pine tree.)

Rubber boots in contact with a metal stand, soon turned my thoughts to the wood burning stove in our hunting shack about 300 yards away.

Les

loser · « **Reply #32 on:** January 24, 2003, 03:33:05 PM »

-52.6 F using rip's link to convert.

Was working outside for most of that too (about 6 hours of an 8 hour shift.) But there was no wind. It actually wasnt that uncomfortable.

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #33 on:** January 24, 2003, 04:23:29 PM »

-55 C at 25000 ft in a 747

It was damn cold outside.

band · « **Reply #34 on:** January 24, 2003, 04:38:46 PM »

-40 C or F (they are the same) in Beulah, ND December 1983 and my bedroom when the wife is in one of her moods.

Manedew · « **Reply #35 on:** January 24, 2003, 04:41:31 PM »

maybe -20F only been lliveing in VT for 8 months or so......
heard top of the montain yesterday was -100

eskimo2 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 24, 2003, 05:18:33 PM »

I lived the first 29 years of my life in Alaska.
The coldest temp I have ever experienced, probably in the -50 to -60 range as a student at UAF Fairbanks.

I've worked outdoors for extended periods in the -20s.
I've also cross country skied in the -20 to -30 range a few times.
I think I fought one fire (was a volunteer fire fighter) that was well below zero...

However, for the last 5 years that I lived in Alaska, I only drove two... roadsters, if you will. Both were cars that I had chopped the roofs off of, so they only had front windshield glass. Basically they were convertables without the roof-up option. One was a Karman Ghia, the other was a Dodge Dart that I turned into a Batmobile. I drove those two cars in rain, snow, sleet, hail, sun, whatever mother nature handed me.

I had a set of WWII sheepskin bomber gear (B-3 coat, pants and replica hat) and a set of turn-outs (Firefighting pants and coat). Also had a few pair of aviator style VB (bunny) boots. With this gear (and layers underneath) I could handle an hours drive to my parents house in the Mat. Valley in the -20s without getting cold.

eskimo

superpug1 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 24, 2003, 08:23:21 PM »

Im form texas so the coldest would have to be 15F. I was three I still have the report. It was funny. At Commerce, texas:D

Paxil · « **Reply #38 on:** January 24, 2003, 10:57:38 PM »

63-68 F? in 1989 outside of Fairbanks Alaska. Who knows... we couldn't really tell. It think it was -58 in Fairbanks, and we were in the flats on a military exercise where it was usually 5-10 degrees colder (sleeping in tents). Many injuries... Canadian C-130 crashed on the airstrip in the icefog. Bad memories. I was in hospital with a injured knee about a month later and saw all the frost bite victims. Crazy bad stuff that cold can do.

SKurj · « **Reply #39 on:** January 24, 2003, 11:51:46 PM »

The fuggin cold sux!!!

Anyone in southern US looking for networking engineering types? I graduate in a few months and I don't wanna ever see snow again, unless I am 'just visiting'

SKurj

SirLoin · « **Reply #40 on:** January 26, 2003, 10:10:19 AM »

Pretty cold over here...

Thorns · « **Reply #41 on:** January 26, 2003, 10:31:35 AM »

I think it was after my ex-wife's first visit with her attorney.

Thorns

Wlfgng · « **Reply #42 on:** January 26, 2003, 11:26:33 AM »

sounds like a couple of Eilson (sp) AFB refuges to me...

Lizard3 · « **Reply #43 on:** January 26, 2003, 11:34:22 AM »

Don't know what the actual temperature was, but boot camp in Great Mistakes IL hit -80 to -100F for close to two weeks. I grew up in Alaska, walked to school and all that and have NEVER seen anything like that. When it finally warmed up to freezing and the sun came out we shucked everything but our shirts. Funny how you adjust to things like that.

Anyway, actuall temperature doesn't matter near as much as wind chill does. Thats the temp that it really feels and acts like.

The wet winters in the south are harder for me to take than the dry ones in Alaska. Humidity makes a huge difference.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #44 on:** January 27, 2003, 12:16:25 PM »

I agree.
In fairbanks, when 'spring' arrived, we were out playing frisbee in our t-shirts.. didn't realize how cold it was until the frisbee hit the ground and shattered...