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[bcbloyd]

I am a "trans-planted" Southerner (originally from Louisiana) who lived in Wisconsin for 23 years, so I saw plenty of snowy winters, and enjoyed it there for many years. However, the coldest I ever experienced was in January 2019, when actual temperature reached MINUS 32 C, but that was ACTUAL recorded temperature! What that does NOT indicate is the "windchill" ... which was an exceedingly dangerous MINUS 53! I had to make (& pay for) two emergency house calls to have our furnace serviced that week, and a week later, we had to repair a burst water pipe in our basement. Wisconsin is called the "Frozen Tundra" for good reason!

P.S. We moved to Florida the following year. LOL!

[Ulnyx]

You add in wind chill, and it gets a hell of a lot colder. USA record for coldest wind chill is -108°F, that's -78°C.

And on the opposite end of the thermometer, we have Death Valley. Which not only has the USA's hottest temperature of 134°F (57°C) but that's also the world record highest temperature.

[kenziedayne]

Yes...lakes do freeze over. Ice fishing is a real thing. Some lakes are frozen for several feet down and you can put a shack or even park a truck on them without breaking the ice.

[loriachaddon]

Lol. My husband grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska. Its amusing that the "record" is -66F. When he was a kid, they had a mercury thermometer that actually went down to -80 F. He saw it drop below there and down into the bulb for 10 days straight. Lowest I saw up there was -60 F.
I knew I had been there long enough to think like an Alaskan when I saw a special on Mars that said the average temp was -80F, and I thought "Eh, we could live there."
I knew a few people that actually wore shorts year round. I never got that crazy.

[feiradragon]

Fun fact: The US gets really powerful tornadoes because we live in the clashing point between extreme cold and extreme heat. The jet stream, which separates arctic cold air from the warmer central latitudes, often dips down to around the Canadian border.

[johndoeski]

The reason Sault Ste Marie gets so much snow is what's called lake effect snow. As the cold air comes across the great lakes, it picks up moisture from the warmer lakes and as soon as it gets over land, the air gets colder and dumps its moisture in the form of snow. That's also the reason the temperatures don't get crazy cold, is because the warm lakes warm the air as it comes across the lake. The lakes are so massive that the will never freeze over and retain their warmer water throughout the winter. Yes, they drop a few degrees in the winter, but get reheated every summer.

[jdanon]

The coldest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was -80 in Alaska. The -70 record is for the contiguous 48 states.

[melodykubiak]

Two days ago, here in Minnesota, when we woke up it was -11 F, with a -32 windchill. The windchill is what the weather FEELS like. We're happy that tomorrow is predicted to be 9 F ABOVE ZERO, with a -10 F windchill, which means the dangerous-level windchill warning is OVER. So it will have warmed up! However, I'm hiding in the house until the weather is more reasonable. It's quite pleasant in the winter here when the temps are in the 30s F with little wind, even a little "melty." That's our WARM winter weather, at the beginning and end of winter. We have almost no snow yet, which is unheard of. Not complaining! My husband hasn't had to shovel snow yet this winter, which is so strange for January. An average snowfall can be 2-6 inches of snow in one day, but sometimes much more.

[tgartner]

I had an uncle who was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, I asked him how was it? His response was "Brutal, just Brutal". RIP Uncle Hank

[CaptainMcCall]

-22 below last night.... Rural Nebraska. Worst winter weather in my life 1983-1984, 90 days below freezing and 30 days consecutively below zero.

[connorelsner]

To answer your question regarding going out on the lake... Yes! I went to college in Duluth and can assure you that ice fishing is a very common hobby people have. Oftentimes, people drive out onto the lake (and drift for some giggles), so long as the ice gets to 6-8". For school to be canceled, the air temperature had to be -35F at 6am. The coldest I ever saw it at was -37F air, -57F with windchill.

[roseblondie]

Hello from Portland Oregon, we had 16 degrees and electricity went out from yesterday afternoon till 1:20am. Wind crazy viscous. It was cold in the house and dark. Makes me glad for the workers that got the electricity back on!

[Hephzibah]

I lived in MN, North of Duluth, for many years. The coldest we saw was probably in '96, when Duluth had their coldest. It was -60°F. We were living in a poorly insulated cabin at the time, heating with a wood stove. I recall that Mama told us we weren't allowed to go out and tend the animals till it warmed up to -40°F! We mostly spent the morning wrapped in blankets huddled around the stove. (Daddy and Mama, and 9 children 16 and younger) But in general, it's not bad. Growing up, we averaged 1-2 weeks at about -40°F in January. We have been told that if you go outside at -40°, and throw boiling water up into the air, it will come crashing to the ground, frozen. I do know that if you blow bubbles outside at -20°F, and are wearing gloves, you can catch and hold the frozen result. And when you've gone through a winter that cold, and spring comes bringing the temps up to 30°F or so, you feel like pulling out the lawn chairs and having a picnic! My Brothers used to think that -20°F was the best wood splitting temperature because the wood was cold enough to split cleanly, but it was warm enough to be out without a coat; just bibs and a hat, and you wouldn't get too hot while performing the work.

[nolansmith]

I used to live and work near Erie, PA. My last winter there, the city of Buffalo, NY "won" the winter snow total contest for U.S. cities, but the small town of Edinboro PA near where I worked actually beat Buffalo by a few feet.

Anyway, one cold morning I'm heading to work, heading up the highway. When it comes time to exit, I tapped my brakes and they felt as solid as a rock. My brake fluid has actually started to freeze in the lines. I got the truck to a stop and checked my thermometer... It was reading -30F (no wind-chill). That was the day I decided I was moving south. Screw that.

[pumpkinoliveros]

Michigan here. I CAN'T FIND MY CAR AND IT'S BLACK!!! It's so cold and the snow has covered my car that I can't even see where I parked it. 😅 I love Michigan and love the snow. Tomorrow should be worse with high winds blowing snow. Thank God it's Friday time for some coco and watch movies.

[MetroCSN]

People complain that Chicago winters are brutal, but that is more a case of the fact that it is the largest northern city subject to occasional Artic blasts. 1/12 through 1/15, portions of the area received 12 inches or more of snow, and air temperatures of down to -10F (-23C). But conditions like that don't generally last but two or three days.

[loriachaddon]

Yep. Lakes and rivers freeze. You should watch at least one episode of ice road truckers.

[smithed]

I live in Anchorage Alaska! The temp right now is 5 degrees F ! Last week it was -74 in Delta Junction, Alaska!

[karenboyd]

I went to college in Fairbanks, and saw temperatures multiple times more than -50° below. You get used to used to it, so when it suddenly warms up to only a few degrees below zero it feels warm. I loved it there. You might also be interested to know that it isn’t unusual for it to get into the 80s and even 90s during the summer.

[lmoughterson]

Just remember, 0°C = 32°F
I live in one of the coldest parts of New York State. Avg hottest is about 81°F, but can go over 100°F. (About 7 days a year above 90°F) Avg coldest is about 13°F, but it has gotten to about -14°F here. We also have about 163 nights where temps go below 32°F, and about 9 of those go below 0°F. Our avg snowfall is about 42 inches. I do remember snow as high as the rain gutters on our 1 story ranch home, when I was a kid.