What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Arizona? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Arizona or people thinking of visiting Arizona including the Grand Canyon and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
Arizona is certainly not considered a cold weather state since it is located in the Southwest and the capital city of Phoenix leads the nation among large cities in annual number of 100 degree days at 110 a year. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Arizona is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Arizona?
- -40 degrees on January 7, 1971
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Arizona is -40 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Arizona was recorded on January 7, 1971, at Hawley Lake.
Hawley Lake is located in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona in the Fort Apache Indian Reservation about 150 miles as the crow flies northeast of Phoenix. In addition to holding the state record for coldest temperature, Halwey Lake also holds the Arizona record for most precipitation in a year at 58.92" in 1978.
In 1973, Hawley Lake had 269.1" of snowfall which is probably also the state record for Arizona. Hawley Lake averages 168.2" of snowfall a year which is also probably the snowiest place in Arizona and the Sunrise Park Ski Resort is located not too far away from the lake.
Most tourists would not associate skiing with Arizona but there are at least a half-dozen ski resorts in the state. The Mount Lemmon Ski Valley resort is located in the mountains just north of Tucson.
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 Missouri, 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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