What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Delaware? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Delaware or people thinking of visiting Delaware including Nemours Mansion and Gardens, Cape Henlopen, Winterthur and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
Delaware is certainly not considered a cold weather state. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Delaware is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Delaware?
- -17 degrees on January 17, 1893
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Delaware is -17 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Delaware was recorded on January 17, 1893, in Millsboro.
Millsboro is located in southern Delaware about 10 miles west of the Atlantic Ocean and 10 miles north of the Maryland border. Millsboro also holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in the state of Delaware at 110 degrees.
How does a -17 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 46th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states tied with Georgia and one degree colder than Louisiana in 48th place and two degrees warmer than Mississippi 45th 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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