What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Alaska? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Alaska or people thinking of visiting Alaska or maybe even just people curious about Alaska will find interesting.
Alaska is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is located in the far north including parts of the Arctic Circle. And anybody who thinks the coldest weather temperature record for the state of Alaska is going to ridiculously cold is 100 percent correct
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Alaska?
- -80 degrees on January 23, 1971
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Alaska is -80 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Alaska was recorded on January 23, 1971, in the small mining town of Prospect Creek.
Prospect Creek is located about 180 miles north of Fairbanks along Route 11 or the Dalton Highway at mile 135. It used to be a mining camp and also served as a temporary home for some of the workers on the Alaskan Pipeline and it also known as Jim River Station or Pump Station 5 along the pipeline. Prospect Creek is mainly uninhabited these days.
The record coldest weather temperature of -80 degrees in Alaska is also the record for the lowest weather temperature ever recorded in the United States. It's the second lowest temperature ever recorded in North America if you do not count Greenland behind only the -81.4 degrees recorded in Snag, Yukon in Canada on February 3, 1947.
This author has been to Alaska and spent a summer there in 1989. It is a magnificent, majestic place to visit that any tourist, traveler or visitor would love but not in winter.
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