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Oketo/Marysville, Kansas December 24, 1983. Temp -19F winds 32 mph wind chill -52F(-78F old scale). https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ks/marysville/KKSMARYS3/date/1983-12-24 I know Emporia had a temperature of -16F with a wind of 30 mph with a wind chill of -48F(-72F old scale) on December 24, 1983. I can't prove the Emporia one but I finally found a -50F or colder in Kansas. There may be possibly a couple more out there on certain dates but this is what I have been looking for. It has been six months. Wunderground has finally updated there site somewhat. I looked everywhere else and I could not find any other data. It either does not exist or does not exists on that day.

This really has nothing to do with the topic but I have a temperature of 102F and a heat index of 117F. It is baking outside. There was even 120F to 122F some areas nearby.

Worcester, Massachusetts January 23, 1976. Temp -11F Winds 36 mph wind chill -43F. I am certain there are colder ones than that. Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii had a temp of 15F on January 5, 1975. Seneca, Oregon had a temp of -54F on February 10, 1933. Mazama, Washington had a temp of -48F on December 30, 1968.

Here is another newspaper mentioning temperatures falling to -25F to -30F with wind chills as low as -70F on the old scale. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/343888892/ So there certainly was -50F wind chills on the new scale December 22-23, 1989 in Republic County, Kansas and Jefferson County, Kansas.

https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/10727241/ This newspaper from December 28, 1989 says temperatures were -30F in Republic County, Kansas with wind chills of -60F to -70F below. To get a -30F with a -60F on the old scale you would require a wind of 10.7 mph. That would be -54F on the new scale. For -70F you would need a wind of 14.4 mph with a -30F temperature. That would be a -57F on the new scale. Even with an 8.5 mph wind and a temp of -30F that would be -52F on the old scale and -51F on the new scale. Republic, Kansas and Webber, Kansas had a record low of -29F on December 22-23, 1989 according to intellicast so it did happen. Webber is 3 miles from the Nebraska border and 5-6 miles to Superior, Nebraska So even with a -29F and 8.5 mph wind that would be -51F on the old scale and -50F on the new scale. That is very conservative.

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There were several areas in Kansas that had wind chills in the -40s on February 1-3, 2011 and there were -40s wind chills in Kansas near the Oklahoma border on February 10, 2011. Also the 99.9% wind chill is -32F for St. Francis, Kansas which is practically the same as Chicago's 99.9% wind chill of -33F.

I have done some research from old newspapers in Bonner Springs, Kansas at the library from 1982, 1983, and 1989. I live there now. On January 10, 1982 they had a temp of -16F with winds of 20-25 mph. On December 24, 1983 The temperature was -17F with winds between 25-35 mph. Also a reading from December 23, 1989. The temp was -30F with winds of 5-10 mph. I may ask around a little bit more. These were all according to the Bonner Springs newspaper. The first ones wind chills could range from -43F to -45F for the first one, the second one could range from -47F to -51F, and the last one from -46F to -53F. There are others I am going to check throughout Kansas though and maybe ask some people around my town.

According to wunderground the highest heat index recorded in the US happened at Appleton, Wisconsin on July 13, 1995. It was 149F.

The average low in Mankato, Kansas in January is 12F and in Chicago it is 18F. However the average high in January in Mankato, Kansas is 36F and the average high in Chicago is 32F. I would think at least a few degrees colder on average. Mankato is the area I suspect had a wind chill of -52F to -55F on January 10, 1982. Mankato had an all time record low of -25F on that date. Winds in that area had to have been at least 15-20 mph. It ranged from 17 mph in Manhattan to 23 mph in Concordia. Here is a comparison in temperatures in Mankato, Kansas and Chicago in the month of January. http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?month=1 http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?month=1

I wonder reliable that one guy in the article who said he had a temperature of -22F and a wind chill of -70F on the old scale. It would be -51F on the new scale. He said he worked at UPS and said it was the most painful nights of his life. However he doesn't indicate where he was living at in Kansas. As cold as December of 1989 was I see no reason to not believe him either.

Here are some people who lived in Kansas or visited there in December of 1989 and said it was cold to the core. http://m.ljworld.com/weblogs/lawrence_weather_watch/2010/jan/9/what-was-your-coldest-day/

I felt around maybe -45F wind chill(new scale)back in 1989 and it feels like wasps stinging you on your exposed skin. I put my leg out the door of my trailor for like 15 seconds and it just felt beyond words. At -25F I don't notice the sting as much but it definitely hurts your joints if you have no long underwear or nothing underneath your pants or jeans when you go outside for a few minutes.

I for some reason been wanting to experience some wind chills around 50 to 65 below zero on the new scale. I just wonder how a wind chill of -45F compares to a wind chill of -65F. The air looks like an ice crystal when the wind chill is -45F. That is probably my coldest I experienced back in 1989.

I think it is working again. How do you get the pages to look like you have them in Limestone and other stations? What do you go under?

Are you sure of -200F? On the old wind chill scale as the winds got stronger the wind chills would actually start warming up once you got past like 50 or 60 mph. Vostok Station, Antarctica in August of 2005 recorded a temp of -99F with winds of 100 mph creating a wind chill of -191F. On the old wind chill scale it would be -176.

How do you get that specific data? I cannot find any pages that look like that.

How does it work? I don't know how it works.

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I know a lot of people who live in the Emporia and surrounding areas. I know a lady I worked with in Emporia who knows someone who has lived in Lebo their whole life. I also know someone who lived in Cassoday, Kansas in 1985 which had a record low of -20F with winds around 20 to 25 mph. I may even go to a historian and look for newspaper records. I will look under the sun if I have to find records.

So wind chills that are colder may not be recorded. Like on wunderground where they typically go hour by hour.

Wow, did any of them survive? Wind chills that cold will freeze your exposed flesh in seconds. The wind chill would be -115F on todays scale. It does not sound any less extreme. My dad worked for the railroad back in the 1980s and he would sometimes get frostbite by wind chills of likely 50 to near 80 below on the old scale. About -35F to low -50s on the new scale.

I agree data is scarce. Also wind gusts don't seem to play a role in the wind chill calculation and they probably should. However it doesn't seem to make a big difference but at least it does somewhat.

It is actually -60F(-51C) with winds of 35 mph(56 knots) creating a wind chill of -110F(-79C). Old scale was -144F(-98C). Also the coldest wind chill in the world occured in August of 2005 in Vostok Station, Antarctica. Temp was -99F with winds of 110 mph creating a wind chill of -191F or -192F. Some articles say -191F others say -192F. Talk about instant freeze.

Frostburg Maryland January 21, 1985. Temp -26F wind 15 mph wind chill -53F.