What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of New Hampshire? This is a weather trivia question that people living in New Hampshire or people thinking of visiting New Hampshire including the casinos, Mount Washington, the Ski Resorts and White Mountains and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting.
New Hampshire is certainly considered a cold weather state since it is in New England and borders Canada. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of New Hampshire is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.
What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in New Hampshire?
- -50 degrees below zero on January 22, 1885
The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of New Hampshire is -50 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for New Hampshire was recorded on January 22, 1885, at Mount Washington.
Mount Washington is the tallest mountain in the Northeast at 6,288 feet. Mount Washington is notorious for its bad weather as three storm system tracks all converge on top of the mountain.
You can ski on top of Mount Washington at Tuckerman's Ravine well into June. A wind speed of of 231 mph has been recorded on top of the mountain which is a world record wind speed not occurring in a cyclone. Unofficially, in 1871 a temperature of -59 degrees below zero was recorded at Mount Washington.
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, Nevada, 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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