MINIMUM Temperatures.

@jonwells

I'm sure it has been beaten mate.

It's kinda like Miss Universe - she sure as nuts isn't the most beautiful babe on the planet, she was just there at the time, and the one that really counted was somewhere else !

I was just wandeing would you guys be measuring mean temp,or would you
Be adding in wind chill factor.
Thid would drastically change the temp rating
I have experienced tempetues of -18 then when you add wind chill
The temp dopped to -32 and yes this was in the drakensberg 2006
@ tiffendell ski resort in the eastern cape
I had a thermo flask full of hot water beside me in a ice wolf s/b
Wearing a extreme alpine glacier jacket two beanise and all my thermal
Socks and when I woke about 3 am I was royal blue in colour and the bottle
Of hot water frooze solid and all I wanted to make was hot chocklate.
This is the most uncomfortable I have ever being,but loved every second

I suppose though with the resorrts capabilities of making snow this would
Add to the colder tempretures ,but having the spiit of adventure will always
Allure me to challenge the elements.

Cold weather is best

Hi madman

The temp. of -21 in my first post was mean and did not include windchill

From the web ...
The coldest temperature ever recorded in South Africa is -18.6 C at Buffelsfontein, near Molteno, Eastern Cape 1996-06-28

The coldest recorded temperature in Africa was -24 C in Ilfrane, Morocco in 1935.

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Southern Africa was in
Lesotho −20.4 C at Letseng-la-Draai (Letseng-la-Terae), Mokhotlong District 1967-06-12

So u guys are measuring records!

I was always sure the Drakensberg is the coldest place in Africa, but never had proof. -27C at Oxbow seems more like it! South is colder, so yes indeed I would expect the record to be near Giant's Castle or Thabana-nt-Lenyana. May get -30C there at times, just no one around to measure it!

Where I live, it is not unusual to experience each winter a few weeks of -40 temperatures in the Rockies, either in Colorado (at 3000m) or in Montana (North, 1500m), both landlocked states. Wyoming, in between, is even colder, being at 3000m AND North. Wyoming has an icecap, in the Wind River Mountains, which have 7 of the largest glaciers in the 48 states (the other 3 are on Mt. Rainier in Washington, 4000m and on the Pacific coast).

Yeah yeah yeah, everyone always thinks I forgot the scale. Then they say, but that's Farenheit. Yep. And Celsius. The scales cross at -42.

At -40 diesel won't ignite, and oil becomes so viscous cars have a hard time starting. People "plug in" their cars when they return from work in order to keep the oil warm. Diesels have engine heaters and glow plugs. And if your anti-freeze isn't 50/50 mix or better, your radiator cracks. But the skiing is great!

I can well believe it.
I was surprised when I recorded -13 degrees on the 13th June 2012, at the bottom of Leslies Pass, in calm clear weather.
I could hear the creak of the water freezing in the cellarcask that I had used to store some water.
I never expected to have these kind of temperatures below the escarpment - I can only imagine what it was like on top.

I don't believe it's a record for South Africa.
I was at the top of the Amphitheater the same weekend as SeriousTribe and SeriousTribe2 who were at Leslies.
They were in Lesotho I gather.Presume they were camped near the river.
We recorded -22 C.
The fact that our readings are so similar and when you see the Sani Top Chalet reading...
Too much of a coincidence!