Sunday, January 22, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Colorado?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Colorado? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Colorado or people thinking of visiting Colorado including the Colorado National Monument, Pikes Peak, the Rocky Mountains and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting. 



Colorado is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is home to the Rocky Mountains and cold weather cities like Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder and Fort Collins. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Colorado is probably still a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Colorado?

  • -61 degrees on February 1, 1985

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Colorado is -61 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Colorado was recorded on February 1, 1985, in Maybell.

Maybell is a small 92 total population town located in northwestern Colorado along Route 40 along the Yampa River. The town was named after May Bell who was the wife of a local cattle rancher.  

How does a -61 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 5th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states two degrees warmer than Wyoming in 4th place and one degrees colder than Idaho, Minnesota and North Dakota 6th 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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