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Volosaurus rex said:
According to the National Weather Service, "The kickoff temperature in Green Bay [for the Ice Bowl] was -13°F, with a wind chill of 36 below zero. Temperatures were so cold, in fact, that referees had to shout signals so that the metal whistles wouldn't stick to their lips. Even so, nearly 51,000 fans watched the coldest game in league annals. Several players were treated for frostbite and a fan in the stands died of exposure to the cold" (December 31, 1967: Weather During the Icebowl).

For the purposes of comparison, we live in Billings, Montana. Our current temperature, according to weather.com, is -17, with an overnight low projected to be -27. The "feels like" temperature here is -35 right now. Current temperatures for recording stations in northern Montana, along the "Hi-Line," which parallels the Canadian border, are as follows: East Glacier Park, -33; Babb, which is near the Many Glacier entrance to the park, -33; Shelby, -32; Browning, -35; and Cut Bank, -32. These points are east of the Continental Divide and exposed to more wind, so their wind chill readings may well approach -50 or a bit colder.

I contacted the local Weather Service Facebook and inquired about the coldest overnight lows, i.e. air temperature values rather than wind chills, recorded for this morning in Montana. Their response was "Looks like -41 F at the Spotted Bear Lookout RAWS in NW Montana. Closer to southern MT, a -38 F at the Judith Peak RAWS near Lewistown. There may be cooperative observers who have been colder, but we won't know until later this evening. [East Glacier reported] -40."

For additional historical context, "on the morning of Jan. 20, 1954, the Montana and continental 48 states’ record cold temperature of minus 70 degrees was observed at a mining camp near the Continental Divide a short distance from Rogers Pass near Helena" (That Time Montana Hit 70 Below ... And Maybe Colder).

Additionally, "Montana holds (perhaps) the world record for the sharpest drop in temperature as well as the sharpest increase. Browning, MT, saw its temperature drop 100°F, from 44°F to -56°F, in less than 24 hours as a result of a cold front passage on January 23-24, 1916" (Extreme Short-Duration Temperature Changes in the U.S.).

Even in Montana, these weather phenomena are rare. but they occur just often enough to give Montana its reputation for legendary winter weather.
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I saw it drop from 73 degrees to 33 and snowing within a couple of hours once when we lived out on the plains in the far northern Texas Panhandle.

I will never forget that..we ended up with close to a foot of snow.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
According to the National Weather Service, "The kickoff temperature in Green Bay [for the Ice Bowl] was -13°F, with a wind chill of 36 below zero. Temperatures were so cold, in fact, that referees had to shout signals so that the metal whistles wouldn't stick to their lips. Even so, nearly 51,000 fans watched the coldest game in league annals. Several players were treated for frostbite and a fan in the stands died of exposure to the cold" (December 31, 1967: Weather During the Icebowl).

For the purposes of comparison, we live in Billings, Montana. Our current temperature, according to weather.com, is -17, with an overnight low projected to be -27. The "feels like" temperature here is -35 right now. Current temperatures for recording stations in northern Montana, along the "Hi-Line," which parallels the Canadian border, are as follows: East Glacier Park, -33; Babb, which is near the Many Glacier entrance to the park, -33; Shelby, -32; Browning, -35; and Cut Bank, -32. These points are east of the Continental Divide and exposed to more wind, so their wind chill readings may well approach -50 or a bit colder.

I contacted the local Weather Service Facebook and inquired about the coldest overnight lows, i.e. air temperature values rather than wind chills, recorded for this morning in Montana. Their response was "Looks like -41 F at the Spotted Bear Lookout RAWS in NW Montana. Closer to southern MT, a -38 F at the Judith Peak RAWS near Lewistown. There may be cooperative observers who have been colder, but we won't know until later this evening. [East Glacier reported] -40."

For additional historical context, "on the morning of Jan. 20, 1954, the Montana and continental 48 states’ record cold temperature of minus 70 degrees was observed at a mining camp near the Continental Divide a short distance from Rogers Pass near Helena" (That Time Montana Hit 70 Below ... And Maybe Colder).

Additionally, "Montana holds (perhaps) the world record for the sharpest drop in temperature as well as the sharpest increase. Browning, MT, saw its temperature drop 100°F, from 44°F to -56°F, in less than 24 hours as a result of a cold front passage on January 23-24, 1916" (Extreme Short-Duration Temperature Changes in the U.S.).

Even in Montana, these weather phenomena are rare. but they occur just often enough to give Montana its reputation for legendary winter weather.
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would've loved to stay in mt. but no way i could handle 32° consistently. forget anything below that. to HELL with negative degrees!
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I saw it drop from 73 degrees to 33 and snowing within a couple of hours once when we lived out on the plains in the far northern Texas Panhandle.

I will never forget that..we ended up with close to a foot of snow.
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Ulysses, are you familiar with a book entitled Crown of the Continent: The Last Great Wilderness of the Rocky Mountains? There is a passage in that book where the author, Ralph Waldt, talks about a four-day, snowshoe backpacking trip that he made into a remote part of Glacier back in the mid-1970s. A powerful cold front moved in one night after his party set up camp at the head of a mountain lake.

"During the next eight hours, the temperature dropped from 34 degrees Fahrenheit to 35 degrees below zero. The lake where we were camped [froze] up for the year that night, more than three inches thick by dawn....The sounds I heard that night rival anything I have experienced to date. As the ice formed rapidly over more than 1500 acres of water surface, it created a phenomenal symphony that echoed through the starlit valley all night long. The ice groaned, squealed, popped, moaned, and more. It [created] deep, high-pitched, undulating sounds, powerful, vibrating expansion cracks. an extraordinary array of sound that can only be described as extraterrestrial. I stayed up most of the night in awe, listening."

The effect that these conditions exerts on timber in the Northern Plains and Rockies is precisely why the Lakota used to call December The Moon of Popping Trees. Water seeping into fissures in wood, as it quickly froze and expanded, would cause limbs to literally explode, like the crack of a rifle. Phenomena such as these constitute one of the greatest gifts that this powerful land we call Montana can bestow upon humanity: the ability to literally leave humanity awestruck by the power of Nature and almighty God. 'tis a very good thing for Man to be humbled in such a way periodically.
 
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DD4ME said:
Ok one last thing

Lane Kiffin and the full truth are distant cousins twice removed. Equal measures hilarious guy & total slime ball.

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Is that even his voice? But yeah I’m sure he just recorded himself saying that and then told someone to post it for the publicity.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
An update from the local Weather Service office here in Billings: "For anyone awake and browsing Facebook right now, the current temp at the Billings airport is a brutally cold -26°, which is the coldest it's been since Jan 12, 1997."
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Worked up in the North Slope Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in my younger days. Walking outside at -20°F with winds of 20 mph, hitting -50°F windchill with 90% humidity is brutal. Your eyeballs are frozen, any exposed body part gets burned and the humidity gets the chills right into your bones. Don’t envy you living up in those climes, bud.

On the other hand, you get turn boiling hot water into snow :)

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