This Is the Coldest Place in America Today. It’s −27 Degrees.

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Mar 3, 8:15AM EST

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This Is the Coldest Place in America Today. It’s −27 Degrees. — © ScottOrr / E+ via Getty Images

The huge storm that dumped record shows across much of Texas and then moved to the Northeast also brought single-digit temperatures to Houston and Austin. It was caused by a rush of cold from Canada, and the resulting electric outages and broken water pipes may not be fixed for weeks. Temperatures were back to the 60s a few days later.

Because the U.S. ranges geographically from Maine to Florida and Alaska to Hawaii, the hottest and the coldest places across American can differ by 100 degrees. It is almost 85 degrees today in Miami.

It is 27 degrees below zero Fahrenheit today at Mount Washington. This is the highest peak in the northeastern United States at 6,288 feet. It is also the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River. Mount Washington sits in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains. It is located in the east-central part of New Hampshire, west of the Maine border and north of Conway, New Hampshire.

Mount Washington is also known for the occasional high wind speeds at its peak. The fastest was measured at 231 miles per hour on April 12, 1934.
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Although −27 degrees is a fairly low temperature for this time of year, the average low is often below zero early in the year, particularly in January, February and March. The average high temperature over that period is 15 degrees. By the summer, average temperatures rise substantially to an average of over 50 degrees from June through August. The average low temperature over those three months is about 40 degrees.

Average snowfall in the first three months of the year runs about 40 inches per month. From June through September rainfall averages about eight inches per month.

Mount Washington is also known for the Mount Washington Observatory, a weather station and educational facility.

Weather conditions on Mount Washington likely won’t soon improve much. From the National Weather Service: “A 30 percent chance of snow showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around −3. Wind chill values as low as −31. Very windy, with a northwest wind 50 to 55 mph, with gusts as high as 70 mph.”

Click here to see the coldest place in the world today at −79 degrees.
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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.