| Summary: | 66 Below Coldest Recorded In U.S. 66 Below Coldest Recorded In U.S., The all-time low record of temperatures for the United States is 66 degrees below zero—reported from Riverside Ranger Station in Yellowstone Park, February 9 1933. The world record is 90 degrees below zero in northern Siberia, while 78 below has been experienced in Alaska. Only two states, Montana and. Wyoming, have been colder than 60 below zero since the weather bureau started keeping track of the weather. Several states—New Hampshire, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Washington—have records of 50 or more below. Every state has subzero temperatures on its weather records. The cold wave of February 1899 brought weather of 2 below to northern Florida and zero to the Alabama coast. States as far south as Tennessee have had temperatures 30 below zero. The record for cold in Texas is 23 below. Temperatures of 16 to 18 below have been recorded in Louisiana and the northern portions of the east gulf states.
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