U.S. 100+ Degree Temperature Contrast
Yesterday featured one of those extreme temperature contrasts that you sometimes get here in the United States in Spring -- there was over a 100-degree range from Texas to North Dakota. Here's a temperature chart from 5 PM yesterday:
Notice that, while it's above 90 in southwest Texas, it's below 0 in North Dakota and Montana. Here are some of the specifics (thanks to blog reader Mark for the help):
- Columbus, OH Hit 79, a New Record, and 30 degrees above normal according to AccuWeather.com
- Minot, ND's high was only -5, 39 degrees below their normal high
That's an 84-degree difference between the two locations, which are only about 1,000 miles apart according to Google Earth.
- At Falcon Lake, Texas, the temperature (unofficially) hit 94 degrees yesterday.
- At Two Medicine Bridge, Montana, the HIGH temperature was -11 yesterday.
Between those two, there was a 106-degree difference of high temperatures in the U.S.
Officially, the minimum high temperature yesterday was -7 in Cut Bank, MT (48 degrees below normal!), and the max was 92 at Alice, TX, for a difference of 100 degrees across our great nation.
- In Billings, MT it was the coldest it had been this late in the season since 1965.
- Other parts of Montana were as low as -27, according to a NWS meteorologist.
- Missouri might have been the winner for one-state contrasts, with upper 70's in the Southeast and upper 20's in the northwest at 4 PM:
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