What is the coolest year on record?

Question

For the world

Answer 1

Keith has nailed it in the first response. 1911 according to Hadley. This is amazing considering that the first transit of the Northwest passage was only 5 years earlier.

"Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first successful transit of the entire Northwest Passage in a single ship (1903-1906). Sailing in the small sloop Gjöa with a crew of seven, Amundsen navigated the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific"

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_7615...

Answer 2

According to the Hadley Centre (UK Met Office), it was 1911.

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/dia...

According to NASA/GISS, it was 1918.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabled...

Answer 3

On earth it was Vostok Station,Antartica, -89.6C or -128.6F. (1983-07-21). This excludes sea surface temps.

Answer 4

The year that Pink Floyd did The Wall concert in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down.  I think that was the coolest year ever.

Answer 5

I would say probably somewhere around 1680 to 1695 was probably the coldest. While the temperature was not directly measured there were a number of factors that would indicate that temperatures were somewhere around 1.5 degrees cooler than now.

Answer 6

Probably the so called 'Year Without a Summer' right after the eruption of a major volcano in the south seas.  I forget what year it was, exactly, but I know that it was during the 19th century.  The ash from the volcanic eruption blocked some of the sun's rays, and so the Earth was drastically cooled for quite a while.

Answer 7

i do not know