What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of New York? This is a weather trivia question that people living in New York or people thinking of visiting New York including the casinos, Adirondacks, Times Square, Central Park, Niagara Falls, New York City and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
New York is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is in the north and has a long border with Canada. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of New York is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in New York?
- -52 degrees below zero on February 18, 1979
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of New York is -52 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for New York was recorded on February 18, 1979, in Old Forge.
Old Forge is 750 population town located in Upstate New York in Herkimer County that is a gateway community to the Adirondacks. This author has known people living in Upstate New York who have claimed to have thermometers that have gone as low as -60 degrees below zero but those are unofficial temperatures.
How does a -52 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 12th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states, two degrees warmer than Oregon in 11th place and one degree colder than Michigan in 13th 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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