Friday, January 27, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Washington?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Washington? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Washington or people thinking of visiting Washington including the Space Needle, Puget Sound, Mount Rainier, the casinos, the Columbia River Gorge and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.



Washington is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is located in the Pacific Northwest and shares a border with Canada. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Washington is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Washington?

  • -48 degrees below zero on December 30, 1968

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Washington is -48 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Washington was recorded on December 30, 1968, in both Mazama and Winthrop.  

Mazama and Winthrop are two small towns located about 15 miles apart in northern Washington on the east slopes of the North Cascades Mountains about 10 miles west of North Cascades National Park and some 30 miles south of the Canadian border. The Seattle area, which is only about 100 miles southwest of Mazama and Winthrop, never gets anywhere near -48 degrees below zero but once you head into the Rocky Mountains temperatures drop pretty fast.

How does a -48 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 19th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states, one degree colder than Nebraska and Iowa in 20th 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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