What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Mississippi? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Mississippi or people thinking of visiting Mississippi including Jackson, plantations, the Gulf Coast, beaches, casinos, lighthouses, gambling and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
Mississippi is certainly not considered a cold weather state since it located in the South and borders the Gulf of Mexico. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Mississippi is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Mississippi?
- -19 degrees below zero on January 30, 1966
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Mississippi is -19 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Mississippi was recorded on January 30, 1966, at Corinth.
Corinth is a 15,000 population city located in northeast Mississippi right along the Tennessee border. Corinth is the county seat of Alcorn County and a couple of Civil War battles were fought in and around Corinth due to its location at the junction of two railroads.
How does a -19 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 45th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states three degrees warmer than South Carolina in 44th place and two degrees colder than Delaware and Georgia in 46th 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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