What is the Coldest Temperature you have been outside in?

[garyp]

the coldest night for me so far was about minus 3. Not as cold as some of the daytime temps though. I remember minus 17 one morning on the home farm a few years ago.

[PCH (Paul)]

A couple of winters before coming out here in '87, it was -29 in Manchester where I lived, and a staggering -36 in Glasgow. That did it for me and warmer clim'es were on the cards from that moment on

Cheers,

[garyp]

When ever I start complaning about the cold I watch "Deadliest Catch" on discovery and that makes me feel a whole lot warmer.

You have it in Australia I think.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Originally Posted by garyp

When ever I start complaning about the cold I watch "Deadliest Catch" on discovery and that makes me feel a whole lot warmer.

You have it in Australia I think.

Yes exactly. The guys on that show are crazy. That is what I would call braving the cold.

[GrahamL]

I don't know about temps but outdoors and a pair of socks with your thongs up in the north Is what I call cold

[Jen]

Originally Posted by RB

LOL Jen !

I agree, if you're cold, you're cold !!!

yep thats right

[TrevorW]

I remember not that many years ago going surfing at 6 in the morning middle of winter when it's been -2 piddling in me wetsuit to keep warm.

Stayed up one night viewing when it was about -4 but a few Ports helped that night.

These days though gets too cold I'm inside the old bones can't hack it anymore.

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Originally Posted by Ian Law

-14 to -18 in Scotland doing astronomy.
It was so cold that the due froze up on my telescope and I had to take it inside the car to defrost it to get the scope from my mount.


Ian

My cold one was in Scotland too Ian, up in the wilds of Blair Atholl on a Territorial Army exercise. Was OK when we got into the tent though, slept with the battledress on and my mate had drawn the allocation of 7 blankets, but so had I.
We slept with 7 on top and 7 underneath, was as warm as toast. A sort of "Soldier Sandwich"

Bill

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

i really don't understand why some people have a problem with observing in the cold


Be Wise, Be Told, Never Be Cold.

geoff

[Phil]

When i was living at Blackwater 2hour west of Rocky 2 degrees was the coldest it got out there. Its funny because the days can be so hot then night the temp drops. This is only in winter.
Phil

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Canada again - -44C in Sudbury, Ontario at Christmas time. During the day we were actually walking around in t-shirts and jeans. It may be damn cold, but there is zero moisture in the air - which is what gets ya!

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Coldest for me was -5 at Ballandean on Queensland's Granite Belt back in June this year. But the skies were so dark and amazing that I hardly noticed the cold!

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

It was -38 degrees just north of Barrie, Ontario. I was trying to take a 20min exposure in crystal clear skies. About two foot of snow; at that low temperture there's no humidity so its like powder!
After about 8 mins the grease in the mouning froze and my eyelid also froze to the guide eyepice... didn't realise until I got inside and the blood defrosted and started to drip down my face..
A great place but - never again!!

[peter brown]

Went to -31.6 at Davis Station, Antarctica 1990, and camera battery kept dying tryng to take long exposures of auroriae. The put camera in plastic bag to go inside to prevent condensation...then repeat procedoure adnauseum.

[White Rabbit]

Not out looking at the starts but I spent a winter in Munich Germany once and the temp was -35 with a wind chill of -54 Brrrrrr. That was cold. I've done a few in Glasgow as well that were well into the double digits.

[Ric]

A minus 9 for me, I lasted about 2 hours before it got too much and pulled the pin on that session.

I had ice forming on my moustache from my breath.

[erick (Eric)]

Yes it's a tangent, but when I'm out in sub-zero, all rugged up with hot coffee, I do think of those who don't have the choice of going back to a warm home, but spend night after night in that cold!

[Matty P (Matt)]

I have found that there are some nights where you hardly feel the cold and some where it feels like you are in a freezer.

I'm just greatful that the temperature here in winter doesn't drop that far below 0 degrees. I don't know how I would survive in temperatures colder than what we have here though.

[Lee]

-18 deg C - in a commercial poultry freezer!
Outside - -8 deg C, whilst skiing a few years ago....

I was thinking a few days ago of how many layers I'd need - just sitting still in those temps you would need more than a few I think...

[Outbackmanyep]

Only recently (10th August) i had been up in Armidale at the Kirby Observatory, outside with my 8" SCT imaging comets, it was -8 that morning!
I had 2 pairs of fleecy pants on and one pair of jungle trousers, 2 x t-shirts , one jumper and one fleece lined Drizabone..........wearing work boots with 2 pairs of socks and i still couldn't feel my toes!
No gloves, and my hands were that cold i could hardly grip the knobs to release my SCT from the eq wedge. When my hands thawed they swelled up and went bright pink......i doubt i would have wanted it to be much colder!!!!