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The coldest month of the year is January, with an average high temperature of 36 °F or 2.2 °C, and an average low temperature of 22 °F or −5.6 °C. [10] Boston has seen 70 °F or 21.1 °C twice in recorded history during February. The highest recorded temperature for February was 73 °F or 22.8 °C on February 23, 2017.
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]
The lowest temperature recorded is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F), in Vostok Station, Antarctica on 21 July 1983. Table of values Country/Region Temperature
The next world record low temperature was a reading of −88.3 °C (−126.9 °F; 184.8 K), measured at the Soviet Vostok Station in 1968, on the Antarctic Plateau. Vostok again broke its own record with a reading of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) on 21 July 1983. [8] This remains the record for a directly recorded temperature.
In addition to the AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperature record, Mount Washington now holds the record for the lowest wind chill ever recorded in the United State at 109 degrees below zero.
The record of eight days set in 1895 and 1917 still had yet to be broken, but temperatures were not recorded every hour at that time. [19] On January 7, temperatures in Massachusetts were so cold that part of Buzzards Bay froze. [20] That day saw new record lows established in Worcester, Providence and Hartford, and tied in Boston. [21]
One thing about the cold weather and Chicago — it’s not new. While the record took place Jan. 20, 1985, many of the city’s lowest recorded temperatures came from arctic snaps in 1872 and 1899.
All-time low temperature records were also set well into interior sections of the deep South, such as in Charlotte, North Carolina, where temperatures were recorded as low as −5 °F (−21 °C); [1] Macon, Georgia, with a record low of −6 °F (−21 °C); [1] and Jacksonville, Florida with a record low of 7 °F (−14 °C). [1] Gainesville ...