What's the coldest tempreture you've ever felt

[Pillager]

Probably about 15F. Cold, but hardly arctic.

 

[ejday]

Oh, jeeze, the technical coldest I've even been in is -88ºF (with windchill, it was probably only -40ºF something w/o the wind). Chicago, 1982 or so.

While that was coldest I'd ever been in, it wasn't the coldest I'd ever felt. I remember having to change a tire (without gloves) -35ºF (with wind, maybe -20ºF w/o wind). I had to stop every thirty seconds or so, go into the running car, stick my hands over the heat vent, then go back out. Took five or six trips, IIRC. Farggin miserable. 1987 or so (also in Chicago).

 

[u-gene]

-35 degrees Celcius. A few years ago. Mixed with a high humidity, it was something horrible. The pole of cold is situated in Oymyakon (Siberia) where they usually have -80 degrees Celcius all the winter through.

 

[Pongui]

I'm Canadian. The coldest temperature I've ever felt (without windchill) was -320 F when I had a wart taken off with liquid nitrogen.

The temperature here in Vancouver is about +10 C, day and night, overcast, humid, and drizzling, day and night, and will continue much like this throughout winter.

 

[ZultanofZex]

Breaking up with my girlfriend...

 

[Pillager]

Originally posted by Sean Lindstrom
I'm Canadian. The coldest temperature I've ever felt (without windchill) was -320 F when I had a wart taken off with liquid nitrogen.

Yeah, good point. I had a verruca frozen off. I'll take your word that it was -320, though.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

I had always stayed in the tropics. Lowest temperature? Probably about mid to low 20s degree Celsius, on a cold wet rainy day.

 

[jpowers]

With windchill, -30 Fahrenheit. In New Hampshire where I grew up, the wind in the White Mountains can get up above 150 mph for long periods. At those velocities they don't even calculate windchill.

 

[Rodgers]

While kissing a female lawyer

 

[ferenginar]

Perfection

About -40 F or C

are you having a laugh, they are both the same

freezing point 0C, 32F, 271K

The coldest temperature I have felt is 4K during a spacewalk.

ferenginar

Seriously, it was -28C, Jan 1981, windchill not included, which is pretty cold for the UK.

ferenginar

 

[Richard III]

Ha! I've lived in Yellowknife in Canada's NWT, and in Winnipeg, which is in the frozen part of Hell. Worst was on par with Cornmaster, -55 to -60 celsius under near total darkness at 4:00ish in Yellowknife when I was a kid. I still remember the inside of my nose freezing during a one-block walk home from school.

But it's a dry cold.

R.III

 

[gr8ful wes]

Originally posted by puglover
I was on a Boy Scout Campout two days ago. It was a Wilderness Survival Campout so there was no sleeping in tents! You had to build a shelter. It was 60 degrees in the afternoon. That's not so bad. But at NIGHT! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Made it down to 30 degrees! And again, NO TENTS! And we were by a lake! That made it even colder with the mist that comes up from the water! So what's the coldest tempreture you've ever been in?

Luxury, pure luxury

I remember one winter in VT walking to work for 2 weeks when the temp was 30-40 below zero. I would arive with ICICLES hanging from my eyelashes.

Camping, Slept in a blizard in 93, can't recall the temp, but lots of snow.
Camped in the high sierras several times in october with temps near 0

lived in a cabin in Northern Minnesotas Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness for a few months, lots of snow, had to break Ice to dip in the lake after saunas.

Lived in the Northeast most of my life and learned to expect and love the cold.

Last couple of mornings I have been hunting in 10 degree weather. Glad to get home to the hot cup and warm fire.

 

[funxus]

Originally posted by puglover
I was on a Boy Scout Campout two days ago. It was a Wilderness Survival Campout so there was no sleeping in tents! You had to build a shelter. It was 60 degrees in the afternoon. That's not so bad. But at NIGHT! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Made it down to 30 degrees! And again, NO TENTS! And we were by a lake! That made it even colder with the mist that comes up from the water! So what's the coldest tempreture you've ever been in?

Those shelters are usually warmer than tents in my experience, if you mean wind shelters. A shelter also mean you could have a fire in front of it. There are also a few other things to think of - change your clothes before going to sleep, if you don't the sweat (even unnoticed sweat) will make you freeze.

I don't know the coldest temperature, but I remember -30C in Stockholm once. That's not that bad, but we just came home from Thailand (+40C), which made that seem pretty cold.

 

[Eli]

Coldest - ~10C.

Hottest - ~45C.

 

[puglover]

Originally posted by funxus

Those shelters are usually warmer than tents in my experience, if you mean wind shelters. A shelter also mean you could have a fire in front of it. There are also a few other things to think of - change your clothes before going to sleep, if you don't the sweat (even unnoticed sweat) will make you freeze.

I don't know the coldest temperature, but I remember -30C in Stockholm once. That's not that bad, but we just came home from Thailand (+40C), which made that seem pretty cold.

But we did not have a fire in front of our shelter.

 

[funxus]

I still think shelters are better, even without fires, but it was some time ago I slept in them. I quit the scouts a few years ago. A shelter gives a more even temperature, and a tent is either too hot or too cold imo

 

[sabo]

I live in Minneapolis and it's been about 30 years but I remember once when I was a kid it was 35 below zero with an 80 below zero wind chill. You eyes would freeze shut and your spit would be frozen by the time it hit the ground.. (seriously)

but it's Dec 10th today and it's 50 degrees and sunny so I'm not complaining.

 

[Flatlander Fox]

In the mountains of Macedonia, stuck on guard duty in -30 F for 6 hours. There were gusts of 25-45 mph winds that night too.

As the sergeant of the guard, I would rush from area to area, to send troops inside to warm up for 15 mins, and then send them back out to the checkpoints for 7-10 mins, and then send them back in.

There were many near fights and tears that night, as people didn't want to go back out in the mindnumbing cold, and I would have to send them anyway. Your eyelids actually would freeze together if held shut for more than a few seconds. I felt that I might actually die that night, or actually wanted to die.

By and large one of the worst nights of my entire life.

 

[Hurricane]

Oh the good old army times. Our first training camp was in about -30 C (-22F), and the sergeants put us on guard duty through most of the nights. Then this not too smart kid froze his ears off since he had forgotten his cap in the tent, and after that they cut us some slack and we even got to sleep for 6 hours the next night.

Another camp a few months later was worse, even though the temp kept at about -20C (-4F), since we seldom had the chance to change our clothes. After an attack you are soaking in sweat, and when your wet clothes freeze around you it doesn't feel too nice. One day me and another guy got a chance to go get some food with a truck, and we felt like we were in heaven when we got to sit in the warm compartment. The driver got really mad at us because we were blocking all the heaters trying to get our gloves dry, which meant he soon barely could see out of the truck.

On the other hand, the laziest camp we had was a so called survival camp. We had all our gear, built some wind shelters, light some fires and jumped into our sleeping bags. The Finnish army sleeping bags would easily keep you warm in -20, so we slept about 18 hours every day during the whole 3-day camp (and made some food during the 6 light hours).

 

[basta72]

The coldest weather I´ve been in is about -40 C, when I´m writing this it´s -10 C outside. During winter it´s common with -25 C where I live. I don´t count windchill or humidity, just the temperature.