My biweekly column appears in the latest edition of the Lakeville Journal, readable here with free registration. Fair use excerpt:
"The coldest air temperature I can recall with precision was a Christmas morning in Dutchess County, where I grew up. It was 32 below zero. That was legendary cold, the sort that breaks records in this part of the world, at least those that have been kept since the end of “The Little Ice Age” in the 1800s. Before that, all bets are off."
Come to think of it, Tim, that might have been the same night as your -32 reading at Millbrook School. Was it the winter of 1978-79?
Posted by: Terry Cowgill | February 11, 2011 at 01:27 PM
-40 one January night in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1979. You probably know this, but -40 is where the C and F scales come together. -40 is -40. A bunch of us went outside to take a leak and see if our pee would freeze.
Posted by: Terry Cowgill | February 10, 2011 at 03:16 PM