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The average temperature in Fairbanks that month was minus 31.7! As impressive as Prospect Creek’s minus 80 seems today, Alaska’s record is not North America’s all-time low. The revered mark of minus 81 degrees F was set on Feb. 3, 1947, in Canada, at an airstrip called Snag, less than 20 miles from Alaska.
Alaska has come close to the all-time cold record a few times in recent years. On Jan. 27, 1989, Galena registered at 70 below, McGrath 75 below, and Tanana 76 below. Weather observers Dick and Robin Hammond of Chicken, Alaska recorded minus 72 degrees Fahrenheit during their 8 a.m. thermometer check on Feb. 7, 2008.
The Coldest Place in North America. January 23, 2003 / Ned Rozell. Wilfred "Wilf" Blezard remembers the coldest recorded day in North America's history. Now 82 years old, Blezard was one of four weathermen stationed at the Snag airport in Yukon, Canada, on February 3, 1947. On that day, the temperature dropped to 81 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
The cold air started to arrive in northern Alaska on January 9, setting in somewhat later over the rest of the state, January 11 was a pleasant day in McGrath, with a new record high temperature of +29 o F (going by the 30-year period from 1950 to 1980, which is normally used as the standard). The next day the temperature fell to a low of -42 o ...
The coldest temperature ever measured was -129 degrees Fahrenheit, at Vostok, a Russian scientific station in Antarctica, on July 21, 1983. Antarctica, a mountainous continent larger than the United States (even with Alaska tacked on), is colder than the North Pole.
Its annual mean temperature is about -60°F. The coldest place in Antarctica is not at the pole, however, but at the Soviet station of Vostok, 600 miles north of the pole at the top of the 12,000-foot-high ice dome, where a record low of -127°F was recorded (the annual mean temperature there is -70°F).
Portfolio. Earth's coldest spot is not in Alaska. SAN FRANCISCO — Last July, while we Alaskans enjoyed another warm day, the surface temperature dropped to minus 135.3 degrees Fahrenheit in an icy trough on a south-facing ridge in western Antarctica. According to the man who noticed the temperature, Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice ...
Alaska bucks the global temperature trend. This just in: 2012 was the coldest year of the new century in Fairbanks, and the second coldest here in the last 40 years. Fairbanks isn’t the only chilly place in Alaska. Average temperatures at 19 of 20 long-term National Weather Service stations displayed a cooling trend from 2000 to 2010 ...
The average temperature for October through December 2017 was 15.6 degrees F, 12.2 degrees above normal and highest for that span in the last 98 years, according to NOAA climatologist Rick Thoman. Since 2000, the average October temperature in Utqiagvik has increased 7.8 degrees F. November’s average temperature has increased 6.9 degrees and ...
About a mile from there, on Feb. 7, 1963, six feet, six inches of snow (78 inches) fell in a single day. That is the snowfall total that Ralph Lane reported in 1963. Lane was the foreman at a highway camp 15 miles north of the extreme-snow area. He was also the weather observer for the National Weather Service there.