Tuesday, January 24, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Kentucky?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Kentucky? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Kentucky or people thinking of visiting Kentucky including Louisville, Churchill Downs, Mammoth Caves and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting. 



Kentucky is certainly not considered a cold weather state. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Kentucky is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Kentucky?

  • -37 degrees below zero on January 19, 1994

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Kentucky is -37 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Kentucky was recorded on January 19, 1994, in Shelbyville.

Shelbyville is a 15,000 population city located in northern Kentucky about 30 miles west of Louisville. It is the seat of Shelby County and was the home of two notable residents. Colonel Harlan Sanders who started the Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC franchise and former NFL football coach Buddy Ryan both lived in Shelbyville.

How does a -37 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 29th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states tied with West Virginia and one degree colder than Illinois and Indiana in 31st place and two degrees two degrees warmer than Ohio in 28th place.  

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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