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What's Your Coldest Temperature Thus Far?

Supposed to be -12 degrees tonight for central Iowa not including the windchill which could make it feel like -25 to -30 degrees. This will be the coldest night so far this Winter and the coldest we have seen in 3 years. Northern Iowa has had temps with windchill -30 to -35 degrees already. I think MN was even colder.

I am ready for Summer and 70+ temps.
 
I am ready for Summer and 70+ temps.
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Same here. Cant wait to see Green grass pop up and longer days. Havent felt warmth on the skin for a while outside. Opening my front or back door during this cold is pretty awesome with the steam pouring out. After 3 years it is still incredible to see how really cold it is outside with 65 degree air turning to immediate steam.

Thus far this 2007/2008 Winter has it been colder than last year for your area or not yet or not even close? For myself its pretty much the same as last winter. Only difference this year is my area got tons more snow. How about for everyone else?

-gerrit
 
Dewpoint:-13°F (-25°C)Wind Chill:-25°F (-32°C)

Currently -6 degrees outside with a high of 12 expected tommorow and a windchill of -25 degrees expected. ouch.

This year much colder than last year.
 
Currently sitting at -16 with still another hour or two to drop. Wind chill warning in effect now too. Windchills around are approaching -40!

That fresh 8" snowpack really made a difference.
 
B Ozanne said:
Wow, that sounds really cold for MO. How unusual is that for your area?

My low so far this winter is 10F. Not all that impressive. In the past 5 years we typically see 0-5F for the coldest of the season.
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As of now it's -10F, but it's supposed to start warming dramatically after today. Our current temp is about our normal extreme for lows, but this has been an extended period of arctic air which has been in place for about a week now. The -17 we had the other morning is rather unusual, but conditions were just right. If I remember right, about 50 miles in any direction and the temp was almost 10 degrees warmer.

EDIT: Now 22 minutes later, it's dropped to -13F.
 
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I think I have a new all time low for myself, lol. My old was -18F years ago. Well it was -20F in Tekamah this morning, with lower readings around there. I went out and shot river/ice steam at 6 a.m. and am rather certain it was at least -20F out there on the flats. Steam production was nuts. If you ever want to see cool sundogs this is an excellent way. Also saw what I'd guess were 50-100 foot tall steam-nadoes. A pair of them were quite close. I never thought brutal cold could be this much fun. It was trying to kill my canon however. It was responding slower than I've ever seen.
 
It got down to -17 here again last night but was much better than -26 which was observed in Waterloo. I believe that was the lowest in IA. Still nothing compared to the -39 reading in Embarass MN.
 
Coldest here at my place was -2 and that was last night with a fading 1" snow cover. That area of SW Iowa and NW Missouri has been a target for some healthy snows this winter, and for very cold morning lows. My sister said their lowest was a -6 temp in West Des Moines IA.
 
Mark Manchester said:
As of now it's -10F, but it's supposed to start warming dramatically after today. Our current temp is about our normal extreme for lows, but this has been an extended period of arctic air which has been in place for about a week now. The -17 we had the other morning is rather unusual, but conditions were just right. If I remember right, about 50 miles in any direction and the temp was almost 10 degrees warmer.

EDIT: Now 22 minutes later, it's dropped to -13F.
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Looking at a map I am reminded that MO extends as far north as Nebraska, so its somewhat less shocking than I originally imagined.
 
Ended up at -18 at my house, but just across the river in Clinton IA they hit -24 at the airport. Stanley IA (just north of Cedar Rapids) bottomed out at -28. Cedar Rapids itself reported -23.

Usually when it gets that cold the air is dead calm, but in this case some CAA was still taking place keeping winds up just a bit. This caused windchills to breach -40 in a few locations. I shutter to think what that would have been on the old wind chill scale...
 
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