What temperature low have you had to date?

[JPK]

-24 outside of Concord NH a little over a week ago.

All my hives seem to be fine.

I'm using Polystyrene hives and screened bottom boards that are not closed.

[Anthony Ritenour]

27 degrees in Sebring, FL; The freeze lasted for three days; some areas in my county claim even colder. This was the hardest freeze in many years. The orange growers are picking like crazy to get their oranges to the juice market.

[Ross]

It was down to 26 and up to 86, both in December.

[Eyeshooter]

-20 just outside Keene, NH. I went calling on the girls this weekend. Knocked on the polystyrene and heard them in both hives. Did a lift test and one was light. Slipped a patty in while it was a balmy 12 out. Lost about 20 bees when they came out to thank me...

[Ian]

back into a deep freeze, minus 30 degrees C with high windchills,

Getting tired of this cold!

[Barry Digman]

Lowest reported temp here was 5F on Dec. 28.




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[justin]

i had bees flying today at 37 f.all 4 of my hives are buzzing and the clusters are still in the first brood box.it made me really happy to see bees flying.

[Ross]

new low for the winter this week at 18 degrees, but it's 70 again today.

[MapMan]

We had 32 days of below freezing weather in a row here. And when I say below freezing, most day highs were at 15F or below, with most night time lows at 0F or below. Rarely above 20F.

Broke the trend yesterday, as it finally got up to about 35F.

MM

[BerkeyDavid]

-20 F. is our low for the year, tied a record for most snowfall in January, 30.7 inches, tied the Blizzard of 1978 year. Above freezing today for first time in quite a while.