Friday, January 27, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Wisconsin?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Wisconsin? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Wisconsin or people thinking of visiting Wisconsin including the casinos, Wisconsin Dells, Cave of the Mounds, breweries and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.



Wisconsin is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is in the North and borders on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior . Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Wisconsin is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Wisconsin?

  • -55 degrees below zero on February 4, 1996

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Wisconsin is -55 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Wisconsin was recorded on February 4, 1996, in Couderay.  

Couderay is a small town located in northwestern Wisconsin about 80 miles south of Duluth, Minnesota. Couderay is somewhat famous because Al Capone had a safe house there called The Hideout which is a tourist attraction.

How does a -55 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 10th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states, one degree colder than Oregon in 11th 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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