What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Idaho? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Idaho or people thinking of visiting Idaho including Boise, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Hells Canyon, Shoshone Falls, the Snake River and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
Idaho is certainly considered a cold weather state. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Idaho is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Idaho?
- -60 degrees below zero on January 18, 1943
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Idaho is -60 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Idaho was recorded on January 18, 1943, at the Island Park Dam in Island Park, Idaho.
The Island Park Dam is located in eastern Idaho about 20 miles west of the Wyoming border and Yellowstone National Park. If you drive north along Route 20 from the Island Park Dam it's about 30 miles to the West Yellowstone entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
How does a -60 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 6th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states tied with Minnesota and North Dakota and is two degrees colder than South Dakota in 9th place and one degree warmer than Colorado in 5th 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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