Wednesday, January 25, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Missouri?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Missouri? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Missouri or people thinking of visiting Missouri including the Gateway Arch, Kansas City the City of Fountains, the casinos and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting. 



Missouri is certainly not considered a cold weather state since it borders with Tennessee and Oklahoma. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Missouri is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Missouri?

  • -40 degrees below zero on February 13, 1905

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Missouri is -40 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Missouri was recorded on February 13, 1905, in Warsaw.

Warsaw is a small 2,100 population city located in northern west-central Missouri along the the Truman Reservoir about 100 miles southeast of Kansas City. Warsaw also holds the record for the hottest weather temperature in Missouri at 118 degrees tied with Union.

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. 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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