Friday, January 20, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Alabama?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Alabama? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Alabama or people thinking of visiting Alabama or maybe even just Alabama Crimson Tide college football fans will find interesting.



Alabama is certainly not considered a cold weather state since it is located in the south and does have a coastline along the Gulf of Mexico. Despite that, the record coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Alabama is probably colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Alabama?

  • -27 degrees on January 30, 1966

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Alabama is -27 degrees below zero. ?That record low temperature for Alabama was recorded on January 30, 1966, in the small 1,579 population town of New Market.

New Market is located in extreme northern Alabama only a few miles south of the Tennessee border about 17 miles northwest of Huntsville. It is located in Madison County in Alabama.

How does a -27 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 42nd warmest record coldest weather temperature out of the 50 states. It's one spot below Rhode Island's -28 degrees below zero record and one spot above Texas' -23 below zero record.

The coldest weather temperature ever recorded anywhere in the United States is -80 degrees below zero which occurred on January 23, 1971, in Prospect Creek, Alaska. The coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the lower 48 states is -70 degrees below zero which occurred on January 20, 1954, in Rogers Pass, Montana.

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