What is the coldest outside temperature you have smoked in?

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Smoked in -20 degrees with my MES and just got done used my homemade wooden smoker with a hotplate in +10 degrees.  Kept the inside temp at 250 even with the wind whippen.
 
Coldest temp I've ever smoked in was  -13, but I was smoking "Lucky Strikes". 
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Coldest temp I ever smoked meat in was a little above Zero.

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Got up Thanksgiving day at 5:30am it was 6 degrees.  Got the turkey on the smoker by 6:30am and at 7:15am it was 1 degree.
 
I don't smoke in winter temps.  Period!

Not that I couldn't.  I just wont.  I love smoking, but there is limits for me.  LOL

I either have to don heavy clothing and boots and stay outside the whole time, or I have to dash in and out of house without heavy clothes & boots, freezing my az off.   Forgeddaboutit!

I already got my winter supply of smoked cheese and salmon in storage.  Have two salmon in freezer waiting until spring to smoke.  Got smoked dried beef and etc.  I'm good for the winter now.

Now if I had 4 to 6 stupid friends that would dress up very warmly with boots and all, and liked to drink beer around a campfire, and give me all sorts of advice on my smoking.  Maybe.

But darn it!  It seems my friends are smarter than that.  LOL
 
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