Thursday, January 26, 2017

What is the Record Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Nevada?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of Nevada? This is a weather trivia question that people living in Nevada or people thinking of visiting Nevada including the casinos, Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting. 




Nevada is certainly not considered a cold weather state since it gets really hot in Las Vegas and Laughlin. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Nevada is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Record Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Nevada?

  • -50 degrees below zero on January 8, 1937
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Nevada is -50 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for Nevada was recorded on January 8, 1937, at San Jacinto. 

San Jacinto is a now a ghost town located in extreme northeast Nevada off Route 93. San Jacinto is about 5 miles south of the Idaho border and 30 miles west of the Utah border.

How does a -50 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 14th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states tied with Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Vermont.

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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