My personal record was -66 on the old wind chill scale back in 1983. Had to change a dead battery on the girlfriend’s car on Christmas Eve. Air temp was -15 and the wind was about 25 mph. Today it would only be -44. Regardless, the battery was changed in less than five minutes.
Now THAT’s the way I like to see the temperature reported. Sixty-seven below with no wind, or with light wind, or with 20 mph wind.
My home is in North Dakota, which isn’t Alaska, but ND has its winters too.
In my dad’s house we never talked about wind chill. That, though he wouldn’t have said the word, was for the pussies giving the weather report on tv.
We would say the gauge showed 26 below this morning and the wind was blowing like hell!
You have me beat by 15 degrees...Old Forge, NY the morning the NY state record was set at 52 below zero. Dead calm...kind of eerie.