But it's over 25 degrees warmer than the USA's all-time coldest reading. Rogers Pass is in mountainous and heavily forested terrain about one-half mile east of and 140 feet below the summit of the Continental Divide. Hawaii is the only state never to record a below zero temperature. Many are surprised at Hawaii's 12 above reading. But that was measured at the observatory on Mauna Kea, which is 13,770 feet above sea level.
Snow falls there from time to time.
State by state low temperature records State Temp. Also on earlier dates at the same or other places. The low temperature of -55 at Allagash, Maine, in January of 1999 was found to be 13 degrees too cold. The previous record of -48 at Van Buren still stands. Bathing Suit Season will be here before you know it.