Monday, January 23, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Kansas?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Kansas? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Kansas or people thinking of visiting Kansas including Botanica, the Wichita Gardens, Boot Hill in Dodge City, Monument Rocks and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting. 



Kansas is certainly considered a cold weather state. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Kansas is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Kansas?

  • -40 degrees below zero on February 13, 1905

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

Lebanon is a small 200 population town located in northern Kansas about 15 miles south of the Nebraska border and some 160 miles as the crow flies northwest of Topeka. Lebanon, Kansas is famous as the geographic center of the lower 48 states in the United States. There's a monument near the town marking the spot.

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 Missouri.  Did Dorothy know how cold Kansas can get?

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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