What is the coldest temps. you have ever experienced?

S, I have no desire to go to Alaska...Not before your story and certainly not ever, now. That was COLD! The cold does not appeal to me to be in such extreme conditions. Just what were you doing in Alaska? you have probably mentioned it, but I don't remember if you did, I just knew you had been there.

 

I can't remember the year but I remember we had just got a satelite dish & movies were free.We were heating house entirely with wood stove.It was probably on a week end night & we were staying up late watching movies & stoking the stove. I kept watching the indoor-outdoor thermometer & I know it was about 27 below 0.And the wind was blowing like heck,too!
I had my greenhouse & nothing froze.In fact I don't think I ever lost anything to cold out there.
Good thing it wasn't that cold this 1 night I remember distinctly.Like Capttain K we had a fairly new wood stove.Hubby put some hardware cloth around chimney to keep birds out. Well the dang thing got frozen & plugged up & stove began to smoke. Hubby had to carry burning wood outside with snow shovel.Daughter & I were sitting here with coats on playing scrabble.I don't think we had a working furnace at that time.
sNs

 

During deer season in 1979, we were at our cabin in Objibwa, Wisconsin. The temperature went to - 70 degrees below zero at night. We had two wood stoves in our two room cabin. We had them so hot they were glowing red. We got the inside temperature all the way up to 40 degrees inside. We slept in our coats and hats and gloves inside sleeping bags piled up with all our blankets. I got up about every hour to stoke the stoves with more wood. We could not leave for home, 350 miles south, because the oil in the engine was like jello and they would not turn over and start. This was a deer hunting cabin off in the woods with no electric and worst of all, no indoor plumbing. Bathroom facilities were an unheated outhouse. We left late the next day when the temperature outside got all the way up to -35 below zero. We later learned that at that time it was the coldest temperature ever recorded in the lower 48.

dr

 

If my memory is correct on the approximate date, back in the late 80s, we had temps of -20 something for several days, with windchills around -70 here in southern MO. It was VERY VERY COLD... BRRRR. And I love winter, however, it could be a tad warmer for me. My well pipe froze up it was so cold. I had to put a bucket of hot coals from the wood stove in the well house to thaw the pipes.