#Weathertracker suitcase full#

#Weathertracker suitcase full#

I remember it was 20-below zero, I believe that was in 1952, and the trees were so full of snow you couldnвЂ™t see anything. The only bad thing about fall is you know whatвЂ™s ahead of you. The Weather Channel ran a friendly low-temperature rivalry between the Falls and Embarrass, and we won.ДЇall is a favorite time of year for me because of hunting, the leaves are turning and the bugs are gone. University of Minnesota meteorologist Mark Seeley told me there are at least six weather stations that are consistently colder than International Falls. We sent that one to TaylorвЂ™s national headquarters for a test and they said it was right on. The one IвЂ™ve got now will go to 100-below.Д«ut one of the campersвЂ™ thermometers showed 62-below, two said 63-below, and the Taylor thermometer said 64-below. For a temperature to be official, the reading must be from a calibrated thermometer through NOAA. It wouldnвЂ™t go that low the mercury separated. That day it got to 60-below, my thermometer broke. We were getting temperatures in the 50-below range for a couple of weeks. The next morning I went up there, they pulled apart their sleeping bags and there was an inch of frost between the two bags. They put two sleeping bags together, went to the north side of Timber Hall on the fairgrounds, crawled into the snow, set their thermometers outside and went to sleep. It was like they were frozen flat.ДЇour cold-weather campers came up about 8 the night before. I got down the road a good mile before the tires rounded out. The seat in the truck was just like a board. It made the most awful noise, grinding and howling. I had plugged in the township pickup and started it, but the heater seemed like it was going to fly right out. Here are edited excerpts from his view of MinnesotaвЂ™s coldest day and reflections of earlier times in his outdoor life. HeвЂ™s duck-hunted, riced, trapped, spearfished, and is an avid deer hunter, having gone into his stand again last season. Thus, heвЂ™s garnered national media attention on The Weather Channel, CBS Sunday Morning, the Today show and A Prairie Home Companion, among others.ДЄt 85, Fowler hasnвЂ™t just reported the weather, heвЂ™s experienced it. It started with a broken thermometer.ДЇowler has kept track of the regionвЂ™s weather officially or unofficially for more than 30 years. But FowlerвЂ™s behind-the-scenes story of the temperature record enjoys a bit of controversy. MinnesotaвЂ™s all-time coldest temperature bottomed out at 60-below in the nearby town of Tower. вЂ“ On this day in 1996, Roland Fowler was at the heart of Minnesota history.ДЄs a weather observer in Embarrass, Minn., for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), he was at ground zero for subzero like none other before or since.