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When we were fulltiming on our land on the west bank of the Clark Canyon Reservoir (in Montana) as we built a home in 2007, the temperature reached -50 several times. We had no well, so all winter we had to haul water in from Dillon, 26 miles away. We also had no septic system in place at the time, so we had to bring in two Porta-Potties to use all winter. We had heat because we did have 50-amp service installed.
This year, for the last five days the temperature hasn't gotten above zero; as I write this at 2:45 PM, the temperature is -12. Over the same time period, night temperatures have been between -30 and -22. The current ultra-cold snap is supposed to last through next weekend, when we should be back to our usual -15 to 25 above range. Today, even some of my wooden cabinet doors in the kitchen have a frost build-up on them. These cold temperatures are quite a change from where we spent our last winter, on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Icehouse up in Alaska still probably beats us for cold temperatures.
Carolyn
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