What is the coldest temperature you have every experienced in your travels ?

[gwilli1]

I just just noticed MSP has cracked -30C ( wind chill -41C ) at 4am local time . Scary stuff . What is the coldest temperature you have ever experienced personally on your travels . Mine was surprisingly local at Thredbo about 20 years ago at -11C . Overseas on my travels was just last year at BOS at a "mild" -9C . Tame compared to what they are experiencing right now in some US cities .

 

[Hvr]

I was in Harbin four years ago. Minus 17 during the day, no storms or anything. Can get to minus 40 in the nighttime.

 

[Danger UXB]

-19 at MUC a year ago. The aerobridge was like the cold room at Dan's when it's 40 outside. I'm hoping for warmer when I travel there in a few weeks on route to GVA for a ski.
However,-22 at Passo Tonale in Italy for a New Years ski in the early 90's...so cold your nose goes crunchy!!!

 

[DrA]

-42C in the Mongolian Altai Mountains. Never again.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

-37c at Lobuje (Lobuche), just near Mt Everest Case Camp.

My trekking boots grew ice crystals on them over a cm long overnight....just from the perspiration in them freezing. My wife (then gf) was smarter than me as she had a her boots inside her sleeping bag. My boots were extremely cold when I had to put them on in the morning!

 

[defurax]

The coldest I think was -42 near Timmins, but where I used to live -30 is pretty much a normal winter day.

 

[DrA]

-37c at Lobuje (Lobuche), just near Mt Everest Case Camp.

My trekking boots grew ice crystals on them over a cm long overnight....just from the perspiration in them freezing. My wife (then gf) was smarter than me as she had a her boots inside her sleeping bag. My boots were extremely cold when I had to put them on in the morning!

I was at Lobuche less than 2 weeks ago. It was around -28C. I found it was the wind chill up around Everest and Cho La Pass that was the killer rather than the actual temperature itself.

 

[jetlagger]

For my experience it was around -20 degrees in Saas Fee Switzerland at an altitude of 3500m.
I still skied the black runs, though the wind chill factor was harsh.

 

[JohnK]

I think -1C or something similar in CBR during Ozfest in 2012.

I was born in Northern Greece in the winter where temperatures were below zero regularly. I hate the cold these days and try to avoid going anywhere cold.

 

[amaroo]

High -30C with wind taking it over -40C.........Eastern Canada, this week.

Right now Montreal is a balmy 6C dropping to -16 tonight.....forecast feels like is -29C

 

[seanpodge]

I'm not sure if it counts since I live here now, but winter in Harbin last year was pretty harsh. I'm sure that it went below -35 at least one night. It's actually been fairly mild this year though. As DrA said, the wind makes a big difference to how you perceive the temperature. If it's still and the sun's bright, it can actually be reasonably pleasant. A windy night though......

Also, anyone coming here for the Ice and Snow World should know that its located on the outskirts of town in a large open park, which is really just a open field with a few trees and therefore feels about 10 degrees colder than Harbin city itself, where the buildings help to reduce the intensity of the wind.

I visited a friend in Lake Banff about 10 years ago when he worked in the ski shop and temperatures would have been similar to Harbin. Also might have a chance to set a new personal record since I'll be heading about 600 km north for Chinese New Year. Also, some weather sites are reporting -37 for this Sunday night.....

 

[TheEmu]

I'm not sure if it counts since I live here now, but winter in Harbin last year was pretty harsh. I'm sure that it went below -35 at least one night. It's actually been fairly mild this year though. As DrA said, the wind makes a big difference to how you perceive the temperature. If it's still and the sun's bright, it can actually be reasonably pleasant. A windy night though......

Also, anyone coming here for the Ice and Snow World should know that its located on the outskirts of town in a large open park, which is really just a open field with a few trees and therefore feels about 10 degrees colder than Harbin city itself, where the buildings help to reduce the intensity of the wind.

I visited a friend in Lake Banff about 10 years ago when he worked in the ski shop and temperatures would have been similar to Harbin. Also might have a chance to set a new personal record since I'll be heading about 600 km north for Chinese New Year. Also, some weather sites are reporting -37 for this Sunday night.....

MrsTheEmu (+ No.1 son) arrives on Wednesday - I've been trying to talk her into a 3 day HRB Ice Festival trip without success so far .
She's coming from TSV and thinks NKG will be too cold!
Positively balmy here lately although the temps looks like they will head south as soon as she arrives (usually in more ways than one...) :shock:

 

[TomVexille]

-38C when I used to live in Chicago. Wind chill would have made it worse.

 

[suze2000]

-18C or worse (can't really convert F to C so I don't remember what the actual temp was, only that it was below 0F) in NYC about eight Xmases ago. Saw the warnings on the TV about the weather and thought "These Yanks are a bunch of wussies! Who puts warnings out just because the temp is going to be sub-zero?" (spent Halloween in Winnipeg once, where it was -15C the day I left, when I was getting on the plane back to sunny Perth, my coat was safely packed in my luggage, but I had to walk across the tarmac in a cardigan because they had no aerobridges there back then) What I stupidly did not realise was that it was sub-zero FAHRENHEIT that they were warning about and that's -18C-ish. I stepped out of the hotel on a bright sunny morning and laughed off the doorman's warning. Got about 50m before I realised my mistake. The rest of the day was spent ducking inside to thaw out as I made my way up 5th Ave to the Met. I looked like a babooshka with my scarf wrapped around my head, haha! And the streets were frozen. Not for the faint-hearted after all.

 

[drewbles]

-30ºC in Austria in the 80's, not including wind chill. I was only a little kid but i'll never forget how damn cold it was!

Fortunately, the sun was out, but still!

 

[hvb]

Last Feb at Yellowstone National Park. minus 25F
Damn cold.....

 

[Major]

- 19° in Colfosco ( Dolomites ) about 2 years ago

 

[Ikara]

I've had.............

Two, "It's bloody cold"

One, "cough, I don't believe it"

One, "cough me, I've never been so cold"

And....

Two, "I don't believe people live here!"

All in the North East of the LOTFAP.

JB

 

[RooFlyer]

-45 (before wind chill) in Chibougamau, northern Quebec when I was working there.

The car's petrol froze in the fuel lines. The vinyl seat material ripped when you sat on it because it became frozen & brittle. If you got driving, then your breath froze on the inside of the windscreen and you had to have a scraper in hand to keep the windscreen free.

But the fun compensation was skidoo-ing to work

 

[drron]

High -30C with wind taking it over -40C.........Eastern Canada, this week.

Right now Montreal is a balmy 6C dropping to -16 tonight.....forecast feels like is -29C

Stop complaining.Think how much colder it would have been if it wasn't for Global Warming!