Public Information Statement
National Weather Service La Crosse WI
935 AM CST Thu Jan 31 2019
…LOW TEMPERATURE REPORTS JANUARY 31 2019…
Location Temp Time/Date
Preston MN -44 F 0630 AM 01/31
1 E Black River Falls WI -42 F 0715 AM 01/31
Elkader 6SSW IA -41 F 0700 AM 01/31
Ettrick 4WNW WI -41 F 0700 AM 01/31
Theilman 1SSW MN -40 F 0730 AM 01/31
West Salem 2W WI -40 F 0800 AM 01/31
Bangor WI -40 F 0900 AM 01/31
Chatfield MN -39 F 0700 AM 01/31
Cashton 3NNW WI -39 F 0723 AM 01/31
Hillsboro 2SW WI -39 F 0700 AM 01/31
Wykoff 3NW MN -39 F 0730 AM 01/31
Gillingham WI -38 F 0600 AM 01/31
Mauston Airport WI -37 F 0755 AM 01/31
Mound Prairie MN -37 F 0800 AM 01/31
Austin 3 NW - Turtle Creek MN-37 F 0500 AM 01/31
Waukon 5SE IA -37 F 0600 AM 01/31
Holmen 4NW WI -37 F 0730 AM 01/31
1 ENE Boscobel WI -36 F 0703 AM 01/31
4 SSE Mound Prairie MN -36 F 0745 AM 01/31
2 N Ionia IA -36 F 0620 AM 01/31
Cochrane WI -35 F 0804 AM 01/31
Zumbro Falls MN -35 F 0815 AM 01/31
Mabel MN -35 F 0635 AM 01/31
1 SSE Kellogg MN -35 F 0720 AM 01/31
Boscobel Airport WI -35 F 0753 AM 01/31
Trempealeau Dam 6 WI -35 F 0700 AM 01/31
Sumner IA -35 F 0700 AM 01/31
Wadena IA -35 F 0730 AM 01/31
Volk Field WI -35 F 0756 AM 01/31
McGregor IA -34 F 0734 AM 01/31
Elkader IA -34 F 0730 AM 01/31
Necedah WI -34 F 0748 AM 01/31
4 ESE Douglas MN -33 F 0601 AM 01/31
La Crosse Regional Airport WI-33 F 0553 AM 01/31
I’m pretty sure i got frost bite last night messing with something outside when it was like -25F… my pinky finger…almost like a blister now. This sucks. Now the warm up does begin…40Fs by Monday… another cold shot one week from today but only down into the -10Fs or so…looks short lived. Hopefully after that its just more typical coldish Feb weather.
Well, I thought it would drop to about -5 here, my wife said -1, it got down to 0.1°. So, not too bad. If that’s the coldest we get for the winter, then that’s OK by me. We’re up on a slope, but our in-laws who live in the creek bottoms probably got below zero. We’re in town shopping, it’s 18 now, but they’re calling for 60 by Monday, I think.
Glad you guys on the frozen tundra are getting a brief reprieve. Some really brutal stuff, even by your standards.
Really. I guess it starts to gel at those temps? What about folks further north where it’s really cold? How do they keep their L.P. from freezing, would burying their tanks help to avoid that?
I guess L.P. actually boils at -45, not freezes. I’m not a science kinda dude, so I can’t really explain why it ceases to function.
Many co-ops north of here sell LP tank blankets, so that would be something that most folks in areas where -45 is possible would be wise to have.
I’d also guess that a great majority of folks where -45 happens with any frequency have at least a back up woodstove. My dual fuel set up of electric infloor and LP forced air should also provide insurance of some sort…but if the electricity goes out at -45…I’d be screwed.
I don’t know about burying LP tanks, that is certainly a possibility I’d guess.
In the 35 yrs. I lived in Cedar Rapids, that was the coldest,-26, I remember. A bunch of wind with that too.
The big news/talk radio station in Des Moines is predicting +54F on Sunday. Crazy…
Second winter in a row we hit -20.
Not sure what happened while I was sleeping but at 7:30 this morning it was -16 and the windchill was cold but nothing like yesterday. I think it was -22 or so. Now I’m dealing with snow. Gonna have to do my driveway and all the paths again and including a place for the dog to go to the bathroom which is a big rectangle. My driveway has to be 120 feet long.
Zone 7a. That’s the place for me. If I was starting over again, that’s it.
last winter was as cold as you guys got in this snap except it stayed -20’s during the day for 40days! my supposedly z4 hardy goumi froze to the ground and my z3 autumn olive died to the snow line. my fuji died of what looked like fireblight on the bark of the trunk but i suspect the cold wind did the damage. it was a VERY long brutal winter.
Worse this morning, but not much wind, so it was easier on the human body.
-33F was the actual temperature. Probably the coldest I’ve ever experienced.
My dad had -29F 40 miles south of here. I convinced him that some folks on this forum put christmas lights on their trees and cover them during cold snaps in the spring. He said he had -7F under the blankets on his peach trees. He might have saved a crop from them.
