Page Turner Posted February 26, 2019 Share #1 Posted February 26, 2019 Above: Personnel from local and national media outlets check out the official NWS COOP temperature sensor in Cotton, Minnesota. The sensor measured a temperature of -56°F on January 27 and 31, 2019, the coldest readings in the contiguous U.S. since 1996. The site was also visited by NWS personnel from the Duluth office on the morning of January 31, 2019, to check on the quality of the instruments. They reported that “all of the equipment was in good working order”. The site is located on low ground near a river, which is a relatively new location for the Cotton COOP instrumentation (since late 2014). The former Cotton COOP site existed from 1962 to 2002. Image credit: NWS/Duluth. https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Coldest-Temperatures-Ever-Measured-Contiguous-US?cm_ven=cat6-widget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share #2 Posted February 26, 2019 Instances of -60°F in the Contiguous U.S. -70° (actually -69.7°) Rogers Pass, Montana, Jan. 20, 1954 -66° Riverside Ranger Station (West Yellowstone, Montana) Feb. 9, 1933 -65° Fort Keogh (near Miles City), Montana, Jan. 13, 1888 -63° Moran, Wyoming, Feb. 9, 1933 -63° Poplar River, Montana, Jan. 1, 1885 -62° Darwin Ranch, Wyoming, Feb. 10, 1981 -61° Maybell, Colorado, Feb. 1, 1985 -61° Fort Logan, Montana, Feb. 11, 1899 -60° Tower, Minnesota, Feb. 2, 1996 -60° Maybell, Colorado, Jan. 1, 1979 -60° West Yellowstone, Montana, Jan. 12, 1963 -60° Taylor Park, Colorado, Feb. 1, 1951 -60° Taylor Park, Colorado, Feb. 1, 1985 -60° Island Park Dam, Idaho, Jan. 18, 1943 -60° Parshall, North Dakota, Feb. 15, 1936 -60° Border, Wyoming, Feb. 8, 1929 -60° Grayling (Hebgen Dam), Montana, Feb. 12, 1905 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jsharr ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Popular Post Share #3 Posted February 26, 2019 I am pretty sure it has gotten close this in my bedroom a few times. 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #4 Posted February 26, 2019 LOL: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #5 Posted February 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, 2Far said: LOL: Misleading. It's all fake news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted February 26, 2019 Share #6 Posted February 26, 2019 -67°, Berlin, NY, January 1990 - in the high school hallway with my ex-girlfriend 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #7 Posted February 26, 2019 Mars has nothing on Montana! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #8 Posted February 26, 2019 1 minute ago, Razors Edge said: Mars has nothing on Montana! But Western Montana has plenty over Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #9 Posted February 26, 2019 Just now, Dottles said: But Western Montana has plenty over Mars. How much money is invested per year going to Western Montana? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #10 Posted February 26, 2019 10 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said: -67°, Berlin, NY, January 1990 - in the high school hallway with my ex-girlfriend -69 would have been so much funnier. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted February 26, 2019 Share #11 Posted February 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: -69 would have been so much funnier. It was most definitely way too cold for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #12 Posted February 26, 2019 3 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: How much money is invested per year going to Western Montana? Oh the standard is economics?? Probably still close if you compare the Mars rover and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #13 Posted February 26, 2019 Just now, Dottles said: Oh the standard is economics?? Probably still close if you compare the Mars rover and such. Is there a wait list to go to Western Montana? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #14 Posted February 26, 2019 Just now, Razors Edge said: Is there a wait list to go to Western Montana? No. Which is why it's effing awesome -- except fra dem cold ass winters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #15 Posted February 26, 2019 Just now, Dottles said: No. Which is why it's effing awesome -- except fra dem cold ass winters. Are there thousands of books written about visiting or living in Western Montana? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #16 Posted February 26, 2019 Just now, Razors Edge said: Are there thousands of books written about visiting or living in Western Montana? Probably not. Certainly not Troy or Libby. Glacier National Park maybe -- soon to be glacierless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #17 Posted February 26, 2019 1 hour ago, 2Far said: LOL: Can't get there right now. The hwy is closed. This is what happens if you try. Sat, when I left the park, the hwy to Moran was closed so they run the bison south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #18 Posted February 26, 2019 If your name is Mittens, your rear hub will freeze at -40. That was the last time I saw him. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #19 Posted February 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, dennis said: If your name is Mittens, your rear hub will freeze at -40. Is that Fahrenheit or Centigrade? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Karen_Cooper_Incident Posted February 26, 2019 Share #20 Posted February 26, 2019 18 minutes ago, dennis said: If your name is Mittens, your rear hub will freeze at -40. That was the last time I saw him. I miss him. He was cool and super funny. Couch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted February 26, 2019 Share #21 Posted February 26, 2019 19 minutes ago, JerrySTL said: Is that Fahrenheit or Centigrade? take your pick. 7 minutes ago, Couch_Incident said: I miss him. He was cool and super funny. Couch Me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 26, 2019 Share #22 Posted February 26, 2019 I feel this thread was a bit of a bait and switch, or at the very least misleading. Take it back and replace it with a straightforward post, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share #23 Posted February 26, 2019 42 minutes ago, Randomguy said: I feel this thread was a bit of a bait and switch, or at the very least misleading. Take it back and replace it with a straightforward post, please. ...are you writing this from Moran, WY ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 26, 2019 Share #24 Posted February 26, 2019 36 minutes ago, Page Turner said: ...are you writing this from Moran, WY ? Not yet. Where is the straightforward post? It could be on another topic, you know, you just have to set the world right again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share #25 Posted February 27, 2019 2 hours ago, Randomguy said: ...you know, you just have to set the world right again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted February 27, 2019 Share #26 Posted February 27, 2019 I grew up between Tower and Cotton...about 30 miles give or take in either direction..and about 7 miles from another popular MN cold spot...Embarrass ... An on two different occasions I was in other parts of MN when when the cities I was living in hit record lows....It is just cold...The house I grew up in did not have a garage..my mom had an heater on the engine block... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted February 27, 2019 Share #27 Posted February 27, 2019 8 hours ago, Razors Edge said: Mars has nothing on Montana! Mars doesn't even have a Steadman's. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted February 27, 2019 Share #28 Posted February 27, 2019 16 hours ago, JerrySTL said: Is that Fahrenheit or Centigrade? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted February 27, 2019 Share #29 Posted February 27, 2019 22 hours ago, JerrySTL said: Is that Fahrenheit or Centigrade? I was once asked to "translate" to Fahrenheit - but it wasn't cold, it was in one of the hottest places I ever was. It was July, 1999 and our tour guide was instructing us at the foot of the Temple of Hatshepsut near the entrance to the Valley of the Kings outside of Luxor, Eqypt. One of the Americans in the group got my attention, pointed to the Celsius thermometer in the SHADE, and asked, "You're the scientist in the group, what's 50 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit?" Of course, the conversion formula is 9/5 C + 32 = F, so it was easy to figure 9/5 of 50 is 90 plus 32 is 122 degrees F. I said "It's 122 degrees Fahrenheit - in the shade!" and was shocked as the consequence hit me just as the words were leaving my mouth! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 28, 2019 Share #30 Posted February 28, 2019 As a kid I remember seeing it get to -46. The coldest ever recorded in NY is -52 in Old Forge which is about 25 miles from here. a couple years ago we left 90+ in Haiti at 3:30 pm. Woke up at 5 am the next morning at home and it was -34. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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