coldest on record:
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weathe...ldwave1888.htm
Jan 1888, Minnesota.
Last Feb about 250 miles north, it hit 40 below.
FYI for those who care:
Windiest record:
During a wild April storm in 1934, a wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 kilometers per hour) pushed across the summit of Mount Washington in NH. This wind speed still stands as the all-time surface wind speed record.