What's the coldest place you've been to??

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  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Shetland:A god forsaken place,and I'm used to and prefer the cold but I hope I never have the misfortune to experience a rain soaked,flat,deathly grey place like that again.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    GummiBeer wrote:
    -53c with a windchill of -64c

    Holy shit!
  • given2fly78
    given2fly78 Posts: 404
    justam wrote:
    Upstate NY for me too. It's painfully cold here sometimes, although it sounds like where you live is even colder than my town.

    I'm right there with the two of you. Amazingly cold here in Upstate NY. Once when I was a kid we came back from St. Croix - 80 degrees to -28 in one day. A change of more than 100 degrees!
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    -40 fahrenheit is -40 celsius i think.
    i know the conversion table freakls out at some point
    and the conversion pattern changes.

    anyhow,

    -40f in the late 70's in northeast iowa.
    2007 december driving a semi-truck to/from Alaska.
    the Yukon was -40f when we were broke down.
    numb hands and feet just about instantly.
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  • corduroid
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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    Oswego, NY. while there for college, it was once 50 below with the wind chill.
  • carolinabeerguy
    carolinabeerguy Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,517
    chadwick wrote:
    -40 fahrenheit is -40 celsius i think.
    i know the conversion table freakls out at some point
    and the conversion pattern changes.

    anyhow,

    -40f in the late 70's in northeast iowa.
    2007 december driving a semi-truck to/from Alaska.
    the Yukon was -40f when we were broke down.
    numb hands and feet just about instantly.
    -40 is the same in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. To calculate the conversion from Fahrenheit to Celsius, use the following formula:

    °F to °C - Deduct 32, then multiply by 5, then divide by 9
    °C to °F - Multiply by 9, then divide by 5, then add 32

    Or just go here:
    http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uctemp.htm
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  • LineOneMightyFine
    LineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    I lived in Vermont for 4 years and experienced many subzero days. I do remember driving one time (not sure how my car worked) when it was -20F without the windchill.

    I don't miss the VT winters. Loved the skiing, but the really cold weather just wore me out.

    One time it was one of those butt-cold nights and I went to open my car door. After I unlocked it, the door wouldn't budge. With a few slight tugs I ripped the door handle off. It was that brittle.
  • florence151
    florence151 Posts: 597
    Coldest I've ever been was while fighting an apartment house fire on a cold night in January in NJ. I was drenched and when I walked outside to our fire engine all my turn out gear froze up. Had to go back in the building for a while to get thawed.
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  • battan1120
    battan1120 Posts: 310
    justam wrote:
    Upstate NY for me too. It's painfully cold here sometimes, although it sounds like where you live is even colder than my town.
    Upstate NY for me also.I've seen 30 blow a few times.Last night it was 5 degrees.
    The bus came by and I got on!!!!!
  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    outside my apartment.
  • xscorcho
    xscorcho Posts: 409
    grew up in wisconsin - that wind chill is a bitch.

    been places that get colder but not when they were cold. i cannot tolerate the cold!
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  • NoCode_inMT
    NoCode_inMT Posts: 551
    My backyard. ;)

    Couple years ago. 1st week of January, didn't get above zero for 4 days straight. Lows at night were -20 to -40. Wind chills hit -50 one afternoon.
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  • alphawolf
    alphawolf DelMarVa/Big Sky Posts: 647
    big sky montana -55 (january 03 if memory serves correct)
    twas so cold, when i shut the barn doors on my tahoe, the interior plastic on the door SHATTERED!
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  • Gossard_Is_God
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  • eyedclaar
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    Not sure exactly, but the wife and I snow camp in the mountains of Central Idaho in the dead of winter, so... Basically, you dig a snow cave and hope for the best.
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  • ladygooddiva
    ladygooddiva Posts: 4,169
    oh i was wrong ..the coldest ....i can not remember ..i would say hamburg in the 80 s
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    madison wisconsin in january for a work meeting. i think it was 4 with a windchill of -7 at one point. thank GOD i live in california lol

    currently it's freezing in my metal box of an office. i have the space heater cranked up. i'm considering setting something on fire in a trashcan
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    unifiedscene wrote:
    Chicago. Last winter. For about 2 straight weeks it did not get above 10 degrees, regular temperature. With the wind chill, it was well below 0... for TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS!!
    Back in high school I remember it hit -20 something.. They actually closed school for a day.

    I went to Minnesota once. It's definitely about 10 degrees colder there on average.

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