What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Illinois? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Illinois or people thinking of visiting Illinois including Chicago, Wrigley Field, Starved Rock State Park, Lake Michigan and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
Illinois is certainly considered a cold weather state. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Illinois is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Illinois?
- -36 degrees below zero on January 5, 1999
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Illinois is -36 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Illinois was recorded on January 5, 1999, in Congerville.
Congerville is small 500 population town located in central Illinois about 10 miles northeast of Bloomington and 25 miles east of Peoria and 130 southwest of Chicago. NFL linebacker Andy Studebaker, a descendant of the car making Studebaker brothers who played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Indianapolis Colts, is from Congerville.
How does a -36 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 31st coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states tied with Indiana and one degree warmer than Kentucky and West Virginia in 29th place and two degrees colder than New Jersey and North Carolina in 34th 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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