What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Montana? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Montana or people thinking of visiting Montana including the Glacier National Park, Little Bighorn Battlefield, Museum of the Rockies, the casinos and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
Montana is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is in the north and shares a long border with Canada. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Montana is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Montana?
- -70 degrees below zero on January 20, 1954
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Montana is -70 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Montana was recorded on January 20, 1954, at Rogers Pass.
Rogers Pass is located in west-central Montana along the the Continental Divide along Route 200 about 60 miles northwest of Helena. The -70 degrees below zero weather temperature is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the lower 48 states.
How does a -40 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 24th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states tied with Arizona, Maryland and Kansas.
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. As mentioned above 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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