In another thread a comment was made about my temperatures in Dakotah Territory being like another states stereotypical temperatures. So I went looking. If you can believe the interweb here are my factoids, and if you can find your stats share them.
Dakotah Territory aka North Dakota. Coldest and warmest temperatures recorded happened the same year, 1936. Coldest was -60°. Warmest was 121°. Average daily temperature 40.4°. There typically are 40 to 70 days with below zero average temperatures per year. We are the 2nd coldest state.
You ought to get some sort of bonus for putting up with those temps, right? It's that dang wind that makes it more miserable.
Hello Neighbor. From Minnesota climatology records: Highest temperature: 114f (Beardsly and Moorhead) Lowest temperature -60f (Tower) Largest 24 hour temperature swing: 71 degrees (Lamberton) Most snow in a single storm: 47 inches (Lake County) Record for continuous days below zero: 60 (Duluth) Average number of below zero days in a year: 71 (Tower). The record for Minneapolis is 68. The 10 coldest counties in the continuous United States are all located in Minnesota. Minnesota is 3rd in temperature extremes in the Country behind North and South Dakota.
I’m pretty confident we had more than 60 days below 0 in ely last year. 2012 was even worse. Interesting statistics Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The Indians I worked with at the clinic on the reservation laughed at the white man's preoccupation with statistics. One time we were listening to the radio at work when the weatherman stated we "set a record" this morning of -60f (February 1996). One of the elder ladies seated with us said, "record? (starts to laugh) didn't they think it ever got cold around here before they started keeping records?" Even though it was sure cold much of the time in winter, everyone up there always showed up for work. I don't ever remember the school closing for just plain old cold either. Blizzards were another matter. I remember the winter of 1994 when we got the 47" of snow in a single storm in 1994. That started shutting things down the first day, and not much was going on for about 3 days afterwards.
I wouldn't be surprised either. We had 53 days below zero in Mpls last winter. Edit: The Duluth record was for 60 "continuous" days below zero, not total days in a season below zero.
I was going to school in mt Iron . We had no school that day . Most of us went to the bussstop because no one thought school would be cancelled. I remember none of my group of friends dads would let us use snowmobiles because everything mechanical was so stressed in the cold. We all walked to what we called “ rabbit shack “ in the woods it wasn’t too bad . Snared rabbits and worked on our “ shack” all day Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That is a cool story! The school in Grand Portage is right in the village and many could walk to get there, even much of the staff. Others who couldn't get their cars to start were excused. I had an 84 K-5 Chevrolet Blazer at the time. I had it plugged in, but didn't want to turn it off for very long that day. It was actually a really good truck in the routine cold (-20 to -25).
My parents living in North Dakota for a short while back in 45-46 and they were told that heat doesn't rise in North Dakota. They also learned if you see flurries in the morning, you had best stay home cause things were about to get bad.
CBS this am Duluth minus 10, Montpellier -19. But waiting on NH to chime in cause MT Washington got to have wind record and wind chill
Stats for Concord NH, where official state temps are recorded: This state is so varied - my temps are regularly 8-13* below where I work and can differ from Concord by a fair amount too (I'm west of Concer and experience both higher and lower temps). Mountain regions and ranges really screw with weather patterns and valleys can really hold onto heat during summer, but the cold sinks during the winter nights. Wind funneling (or sometimes blockage by the mountains) can also play havoc with temps experienced - even between different sections of town or the next town over.
