Coldest Day in KY History

[UK82]

31 years ago (recorded history) on January 19, 1994. Shelbyville holds a Kentucky record for coldest temperature of 37 below. Louisville recorded their record low the same day, 22 below. I remember it well. Hell of a difference for only 30 miles away. Zero degrees tonight seems like a piece of cake. Keep those faucets dripping.

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

31 years ago (recorded history) on January 19, 1994. Shelbyville holds a Kentucky record for coldest temperature of 37 below. Louisville recorded their record low the same day, 22 below. I remember it well. Hell of a difference for only 30 miles away. Zero degrees tonight seems like a piece of cake. Keep those faucets dripping.

I think Lexington dipped down to 60.

 

[JumperJack]

I remember being at UK. Those were very cold winters in those years. But even that seems hard to believe. I remember crazy ice storms and lots of snow, so much that the piles at the stadium were huge. Some buddies got a jeep stuck on one trying to climb it. An old guy passing by pulled them off with his log chain.

 

[vhcat70]

31 years ago (recorded history) on January 19, 1994. Shelbyville holds a Kentucky record for coldest temperature of 37 below. Louisville recorded their record low the same day, 22 below. I remember it well. Hell of a difference for only 30 miles away. Zero degrees tonight seems like a piece of cake. Keep those faucets dripping.

Dripping faucets is very good advice.

Coldest temp in NKy at CVG airport - 5 miles from us - was -25F on Jan. 18, 1977. Do remember.

Right now we're at -1F.

 

[UK82]

Dripping faucets is very good advice.

Coldest temp in NKy at CVG airport - 5 miles from us - was -25F on Jan. 18, 1977. Do remember.

Right now we're at -1F.

I remember that year quite well. Ohio River froze.

 

[BC_Wader]

Got double long johns on tonight. Eyes the only thing exposed. December 89 and January 94 winter was the worst to work outside. I can't handle the cold like I used to though. I'm ready for Spring.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

Dripping faucets is very good advice.

Coldest temp in NKy at CVG airport - 5 miles from us - was -25F on Jan. 18, 1977. Do remember.

Right now we're at -1F.

I remember that quite well. Was my senior year at Covington Holmes HS. Three consecutive days of new record lows. Minus 21, followed by minus 24, followed by minus 25. The Ohio river froze solid. My year book has pics of people out on the ice as they walked across from Covington to Cincinnati.

 

[UK82]

I remember that quite well. Was my senior year at Covington Holmes HS. Three consecutive days of new record lows. Minus 21, followed by minus 24, followed by minus 25. The Ohio river froze solid. My year book has pics of people out on the ice as they walked across from Covington to Cincinnati.

Yeah that was my junior year in HS. Actually had some idiots drive cars on the Ohio. Missed a lot of school that year but even more the following year from the snow storm of '78.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

I have my doubts about the Shelbyville Temp. I wasn't that far away and it wasn't near that cold. 1977 on the other hand.

 

[FearThe Blue]

It’s true.

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[UK82]

I saw a documentary on the world's coldest city, Yakutsk in Russia. Amazing what the citizens have to endure but obviously they're used to it. Average January temperature is 41 below.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Got double long johns on tonight. Eyes the only thing exposed. December 89 and January 94 winter was the worst to work outside. I can't handle the cold like I used to though. I'm ready for Spring.

Dec 1989 was extremely cold.

January 1990 averaged Temps in 50's. Weird winter.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

I was a kid and it was so cold I wasn’t allowed to play in the snow. That was some BS

 

[vhcat70]

I remember that year quite well. Ohio River froze.

Old fart.

 

[vhcat70]

Yeah that was my junior year in HS. Actually had some idiots drive cars on the Ohio. Missed a lot of school that year but even more the following year from the snow storm of '78.

Old Fart 2. But I have you by 13 years.

 

[gamecockcat]

Heck, I moved from Denver to Jacksonville this summer (retired and tired of cold, snowy weather) and we have a dusting of snow on the ground and temp is 30. I know many places are much colder but it's very near record cold in J-ville with a touch of freezing rain (which natives have NO idea how to navigate) thrown in. Guess I need to move to Belize.

 

[bbncal02]

Got double long johns on tonight. Eyes the only thing exposed. December 89 and January 94 winter was the worst to work outside. I can't handle the cold like I used to though. I'm ready for Spring.

This. A lot of people go, "Well, this isn't THAT cold" but we all get older and don't handle it quite as well as we used to. Part of that being human thing.

I hate anything below 20 degrees. That crap SUCKS. And I still manage it decently well.

 

[bbncal02]

Dec 1989 was extremely cold.

January 1990 averaged Temps in 50's. Weird winter.

Welcome to Kentucky lol.

I can remember years putting up Christmas decorations with the A/C on. Not much mind you, but I can remember a couple of 70 degree days in December.