Coldest FT Destination?
Dec 3, 2008 | 9:03 pm
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Back in January of '93, I landed in Fairbanks when it was -67F. Thankfully my truck had been stored in an indoor parking facility.
Dec 4, 2008 | 2:56 am
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Here in HEL we get -20C every winter. Sometimes it goes to like -30C, but thats an extreme. Luckily the very cold days only last for a few days-weeks at most. Usually its not windy, when the low temps are in town. Everything works just as usual even if its cold, thats not the case when we get the first snow, like we did a week ago. Trains were late, people drove off the roads when some still had not changed into winter tyres etc. After a few days, we get used to it. Now the snow is gone and its +5C again. So much for white Christmas.
Dec 4, 2008 | 10:44 am
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250 km north of YXE.
Last winter it hit somewhere near -45 C, but I'm sure that's not the first time. I do recall if you count windchill it was -59 last January up in YBE (Uranium City), and thankfully I was nowhere near that at the time.
I do recall a particularly cold morning in YXE where it was probably near -42 C, and the car started after being left out all night. It didn't want to, but the Taurus chugged its way to life! If only I could have done the same as quickly.
Last winter it hit somewhere near -45 C, but I'm sure that's not the first time. I do recall if you count windchill it was -59 last January up in YBE (Uranium City), and thankfully I was nowhere near that at the time.
I do recall a particularly cold morning in YXE where it was probably near -42 C, and the car started after being left out all night. It didn't want to, but the Taurus chugged its way to life! If only I could have done the same as quickly.
Dec 5, 2008 | 1:03 am
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Dec 5, 2008 | 2:38 am
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Dec 5, 2008 | 10:29 am
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Perhaps people should go here: http://www.wunderground.com/history/ before posting claims.
If huge exaggerations (falsehoods) count, maybe. Otherwise, NO. At least your numbers were plausible when using the old windchill scale.
Gotta call BS on that one. That's colder than the record low for Fairbanks. The lowest temp recorded at FAI in Jan. '93 was -49F.
It's still really cold. No need to exaggerate at that point.
It's still really cold. No need to exaggerate at that point.
Dec 5, 2008 | 11:10 pm
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Perhaps people should go here: http://www.wunderground.com/history/ before posting claims.
If huge exaggerations (falsehoods) count, maybe. Otherwise, NO. At least your numbers were plausible when using the old windchill scale.
Gotta call BS on that one. That's colder than the record low for Fairbanks. The lowest temp recorded at FAI in Jan. '93 was -49F.
It's still really cold. No need to exaggerate at that point.
If huge exaggerations (falsehoods) count, maybe. Otherwise, NO. At least your numbers were plausible when using the old windchill scale.
Gotta call BS on that one. That's colder than the record low for Fairbanks. The lowest temp recorded at FAI in Jan. '93 was -49F.
It's still really cold. No need to exaggerate at that point.
Weather or not (no pun intended...or is there 
) its a recorded low... Lots of times cold pockets can form that are not centered at the airport FAI, or comparable location... extremes don't necessarily follow the NWS recording stations... temps can be 10-15 degrees lower due to elevation & weather patterns like winds & inversion zones...
Dec 5, 2008 | 11:11 pm
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Dec 5, 2008 | 11:35 pm
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It does dip below -50F in FAI occasionally (more then enough for FAI'ers) Weather or not (no pun intended...or is there ) its a recorded low... Lots of times cold pockets can form that are not centered at the airport FAI, or comparable location... extremes don't necessarily follow the NWS recording stations... temps can be 10-15 degrees lower due to elevation & weather patterns like winds & inversion zones...
Weather or not (no pun intended...or is there ) its a recorded low... Lots of times cold pockets can form that are not centered at the airport FAI, or comparable location... extremes don't necessarily follow the NWS recording stations... temps can be 10-15 degrees lower due to elevation & weather patterns like winds & inversion zones...
Dec 6, 2008 | 12:14 am
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A number of years ago, I was vacationing in Florida and got a call early in the morning to be in Gander, Newfoundland the next day. At the time, it was about 92 deg in Boca Raton. I left and flew to DTW, drove home, packed a bag (with completely different clothes!), and flew to Gander. When I landed, it was somewhere in the mid -20's. Making a temperature differential in one day of about 110 degrees.....
Dec 7, 2008 | 1:56 am
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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.
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.