POLAR VORTEX what's the lowest temp you've experienced

[hup_d_dup]

The lowest temperature I experienced was -20º in Lake Placid, NY (the air was calm, so there was no added wind chill).

The highest I experienced was 115º in Death Valley, CA (101º at midnight that evening in Baker [good name for a hot town] CA).

So my life range is 135º.

Hup

[bisontuba]

What goes up will come down.....

[bisontuba]

Increase taxes on the super rich....

[GC]

Coldest ever: -10 F in northwest Jawjuh (our area record). Stepped out on the back steps in a t-shirt and bare feet. Didn't feel too bad. Then a tiny breeze picked up and I broke the sound barrier getting back into the house. About 2-1/2 months later we had the snowstorm of the century for my area; 3+ ft of snow in my back yard, non-drifted.

I don't want any more winters like that. No power for a week in near-record-breaking cold. A tiny gas space heater saved our hides.

[WC8KCY]

Again...
Temps are sensationalized.
Minneapolis is KNOWN for it's VERY cold winters...Check.
The coastal Pacific Northwest is know for it's moderate winters...Check.

20 degrees, 15 degrees, 0 degrees, etc. have been sensationalized by an anti-science ("feels like" is "science"...??...and to whom, specifically, does it feel like that...??) called "wind chill".

When it was ten-or-so degrees, and we (10-and-11-year-old safety patrol boys working a busy 4-lane US highway commercial corner with vehicles driving by at 40 mph, etc.) came in from our before-school duties, our reward for really-cold days was a cup of hot chocolate (real milk, real cocoa, real sugar, real vanilla...not a powder packet) before going to class...and about all we missed was the pledge, Bible-reading, and the announcements.

School CANCELLED due to COLD...?? pfft.

The coldest I've experienced was -53 F in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. It froze and broke the fuel pump on my '79 Mercury Marquis.

I was attending Lake Superior State University at the time (1988), and school wasn't cancelled. So I had to walk and hopefully hail a taxi along the way, which fortunately happened about 30 yards from my apartment.

Not having enough money for the return trip home, I ended up walking home from classes later that day--about two miles--and by then it had warmed up to -20.

Fortunately, the wind was dead calm all day.

[WC8KCY]

We had low temperatures in the high-teens in early March...and that's way down south in dixie.
Man-made whatever-it-is-labeled-today is surely going to cause us all to be vortexed to death.

bloke "who is degreed, certified, and peer-reviewed"

It's not just the polar vortex, but other weather phenomena that gets breathlessly hyped by nerdy weather folk on TV.

It galls me that a few days ago, right before the deadly tornado outbreak in Alabama, the Weather Channel on-air meteorologists babbled on and on about the Tor:Con (Tornado Conditions) index for that area. They were so excited, it was as if they WANTED a tornado to hit down there.

[bort]

Below zero again tonight. Another 5 to 8 inches of snow this weekend. Houses have two-story icicles (no joke!) and the snow is about 2 feet deep everywhere.

Winter is still going strong up here!

[bisontuba]

Taxes vrs quality of life.......

[bort]

Joe, I moved here from New York City... taxes here seem awesome (even if they aren't).

[bisontuba]

Pittsburgh is a nice city....they are lucky to be there, having him play in a great orchestra, and enjoying the culture of the area...

[bort]

Note to self -- don't buy ice cream at the same place as Joe.

[LibraryMark]

From Feb 20th, 2015, just North of Battle Creek, MI:

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[Steginkt]

-48F in Appleton Wisconsin. During the last Polar Vortex, in fact. Very much not enjoyable

[Steginkt]

Many beautiful days in the Wisconsin summer. Just watch out for river bugs!