Largest yearly temp difference cities? (1 Viewer)

[mr roboto]

Here in MN it's supposed to hit 100 on Thursday and/or Friday. In January of this year there was a -15 low. So around 115 difference in one calendar year. 

What's your cities typical difference between lowest low and highest tide? Can't wait for the California guys to come in and say 20° or something like that.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Plenty of places in Canada (and I'm guessing the northern states) get about 140f difference. -40 in winter to +35 in summer.

 

[Thorpe]

Buffalo - low was -10, high in the low 90s.  It has never been 100 degrees in Buffalo.

 

[Thorpe]

from Wiki:

The largest recorded temperature change in one place over a 24-hour period occurred on January 15, 1972 in Loma, Montana, when the temperature rose from -54 to 49 °F (-47.8 to 9.4 °C).

The most dramatic temperature changes occur in North American climates susceptible to Chinook winds. For example, the largest 2-minute temperature change of 49 °F (27.2 °C) occurred in Spearfish, South Dakota, a rise from -4 to 45 °F (-20.0 to 7.2 °C).

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Here in MN it's supposed to hit 100 on Thursday and/or Friday. In January of this year there was a -15 low. So around 115 difference in one calendar year. 

What's your cities typical difference between lowest low and highest tide? Can't wait for the California guys to come in and say 20° or something like that.

Seattle has a comparatively mild climate: I think the low this year was about 20 degrees and the high has been ~90. So, 70 degrees +/-.

 

[whoknew]

I always thought like the plains in the US probably have large differences. Places like Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc. 

Seems like it is scorching in the summer and frigid in the winter.

 

[Redwes25]

Midwest places away from the coast have to be the highest.  The ocean temperature cools the coasts in the summer and makes the winters milder (even if it doesn't feel that way sometimes in NYC).

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I always thought like the plains in the US probably have large differences. Places like Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc. 

Seems like it is scorching in the summer and frigid in the winter.

I'd think so. I don't know of an easy source to go through all the data at once, but I'd think someplace in South Dakota would be a decent bet for the largest spread.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Winnipeg 2015

High 34c - 93.2f

Low -34c - -29.2

 

[Sand]

Midwest places away from the coast have to be the highest.  

 

The more landlocked the more variability.  The biggest swings in the world are in parts of Siberia.

 

[Zegras11]

I've seen the Tulsa area have some dramatic swings in minutes.