Friday, January 27, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Wyoming?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Wyoming? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Wyoming or people thinking of visiting Wyoming including the casinos, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Devils Tower and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.



Wyoming is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is in the North and borders on Idaho and Montana. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Wyoming is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Wyoming?

  • -66 degrees below zero on February 9, 1933

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Wyoming is -66 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Wyoming was recorded on February 9, 1933, in Moran.  

Moran is the location of the Riverside Ranger Station which is an entrance to Grand Teton National Park located at the intersection of Routes 131, 287, 89 and 26 in northwest Wyoming just below Yellowstone. Moran is on the Snake River a few miles east of Jackson Lake.

How does a -66 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 4th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states, and the 3rd coldest weather temperature in the lower 48.

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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