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Originally Posted by mtngirl
Well, I grew up in Northern Alberta and moved around far too much around Canada, but my grandma is from and currently lives in Aklavik, NWT... last February I visited her and the temperatures stayed around -40?C ... that was pretty cold for me, especially since I live south of the border in Virginia now. But I just did a little google search on temperatures and found this little fact:
The lowest recorded temperature was -71?F (–57.2?C) at Fort Smith on 26 December 1917
( The Northwest Territories)
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I've personally seen -62f (-52C) in January 1975, and -47C (-52.6F) in January 1996 in Whitehorse, Yukon.
If you go to this wikipedia page, you'll find the two coldest temperatures recorded in Canada are both in Yukon Territory.
List of extreme temperatures in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 26, 1991 Mount Logan −77.5 ?C
February 3, 1947 Snag, Yukon −63.0 ?C[1]
January 11, 1911 Fort Vermilion, Alberta −61.1 ?C
January 31, 1947 Smith River, British Columbia −58.9 ?C
January 23, 1935 Iroquois Falls, Ontario −58.3 ?C
February 13, 1973 Shephard Bay, Nunavut −57.8 ?C
December 26, 1917 Fort Smith, Northwest Territories −57.2 ?C
February 1, 1893 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan −56.7 ?C
February 5, 1923 Doucet, Quebec −54.4 ?C
January 9, 1899 Norway House, Manitoba −52.8 ?C
February 17, 1973 Esker 2, Newfoundland and Labrador −51.1 ?C
December 24, 1879 Winnipeg, Manitoba −47.8 ?C
December 13, 2009 Edmonton, Alberta −46.1 ?C [5]
February 10, 1967 Iqaluit, Nunavut −45.6 ?C
January 31, 1920 Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia −41.1 ?C
p.s. Mount Logan is in Yukon.
I'm sure there are places where people live that get much colder than normal though... Antarctica anyone?
The cold temperature in Snag -63C (-81 Farenheit) was with no windchill. The air was so dense that a guy walking outside could hear people talking a few miles away. Snag no-longer has a regular population, but at the time was an airstrip with a weather station.