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Originally Posted by '83 240D
-58 below zero in the 85 300SD, wind chill was almost -90 below zero. I had mixed gasoline with #1 diesel to keep it from jelling. I ended up having to start the 240D the other day when it was about -11 below with no block heater and no other heating aids other than brand new glow plugs, it almost didn't start and I thought for sure I was going to fry the starter and battery from cranking for so long but it eventually took off. The worst time starting I have ever had was actually in my gas 560SEL, I was invited ice fishing with a friend for a day and after driving the 560 out to the middle of the lake made the mistake of shutting it off and letting it sit there for the day. It was around -40 below zero with bad wind chills and when I went to start it at the end of the day it wouldn't even turn over a complete revolution. We ended up tow starting it with my friends diesel Excursion which he had left running all day.
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The coldest natural temperature ever recorded on
Earth was −89.2 °C (−129 °F; 184 K) at the
Russian Vostok Station in
Antarctica July 21, 1983.
[1] Lower temperatures have been achieved artificially, including a record cold temperature of 100
pK, or 1.0 × 10-10 K in 1999.
[2]
I looked it up and was surprised by how cold North Dakota gets. must be in just the right place for the natural cold weather path. I have only once been briefly across the border for a few hours. I was in Bowbells ND. U.S.A long time ago in the summer. Actually also to my surprise there are several states that can get pretty cold at times and not just the Northern states. I guess I should get out more. It got to -51C with the windchill last week here, but finally letting up a bit. The strange thing is that they are now calling for above freezing at the end of the week. Our weather over the past few years is getting very strange. I wonder if on a larger scale like the scale of how big planet earth is, there would be a blast of cold air coming off the melting glaciers they keep talking about followed by floods of course and then very dry with global warming.