YOUR Record High and Record Low (nights, town, freezing, all-time)

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by KewGee

Just after midnight on the morning of June 15, 1960, a blast of hot wind (heat burst) estimated at 80 to 100 mph drove the temperature up from 70 degrees to 140 degrees on the northwest side of Lake Whitney in Texas. Cottonfields were reported to have been carbonized, leaving only burnt stalks standing.

No, I was not here at that time, thank goodness. Imagine waking up to that heat in the middle of the night. Many people I know were living in the area at the time. They say it was absolutely horrendous.

Sounds like a tall-tale to me. I think they were just trying to scare you.

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

Sounds like a tall-tale to me. I think they were just trying to scare you.

Au contraire! Check out the link below near the bottom of the article. There are other sites on the net about this 140 degree happening at Lake Whitney, Texas. I swear to you that it's true. That kind of thing wouldn't scare me anyway.

Blog: Wicked Wild Weather!, heat, air, temperature - ABC6.com (broken link)

[Jammie]

Now that would be hot!!!! It may even be warm enough for Elfyum.

Did you see in the article where Portugal had a similar occurence and skyrocked to 158?

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by KewGee

Au contraire! Check out the link below near the bottom of the article. There are other sites on the net about this 140 degree happening at Lake Whitney, Texas. I swear to you that it's true. That kind of thing wouldn't scare me anyway.

Blog: Wicked Wild Weather!, heat, air, temperature - ABC6.com (broken link)

140 F heat after midnight and 80-100 mph winds? 1961?

Perhaps there was a secret government test of nuclear bombs nearby...
Not a direct hit, but maybe the tail end of the shock wave.

Last time I checked, "Mordor" was not in Texas.
(Lord of the Rings fans will get this)

*I will check out that link though...

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

140 F heat after midnight and 80-100 mph winds? 1961?

Perhaps there was a secret government test of nuclear bombs nearby...
Not a direct hit, but maybe the tail end of the shock wave.

Last time I checked, "Mordor" was not in Texas.
(Lord of the Rings fans will get this)

*I will check out that link though...

It was 1960 and as Jammie said, it happened in Portugal too due to heat bursts. It does happen.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by KewGee

It was 1960 and as Jammie said, it happened in Portugal too due to heat bursts. It does happen.

1958 is still late enough for nuclear testing... But I think there's a decent chance it's a natural phenomenon.

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

1958 is still late enough for nuclear testing... But I think there's a decent chance it's a natural phenomenon.

Of course, it's natural and can happen anywhere, I guess, if it can happen in Texas and Portugal. The people I know that were living here then are not making it up. Every now and then in June, there is a write-up in the local paper about that night.

[tvdxer]

Duluth, MN's hottest temperature on record was 106° F in July 1936, during an incredible summer that set all-time records in most of the Midwest that stand to this day. This was recorded at the downtown weather station. I've heard that the harbor station saw 108°.

Around the same date a city in North Dakota saw 121° F, one of the highest state temperature records in the country ... in one of the northernmost states!

Strangely enough, while the rest of MN remained hot, the temperature fell into the 60's the next day when a lake breeze came in.

Duluth's airport station (1400 ft ASL), the current weather station, has seen only as high as 97°, in 1988 and I believe in 2006 as well. The Sky Harbor station (at 600 ft ASL) reported 102° during a heat wave in 2006, but I'm dubious about the accuracy of it.

Duluth's coldest temperature on record was -41°. Not sure of the year. Temperatures in the "lower" -30's aren't that rare here, but below that they are. -39°, I know, was seen on February 2, 1996 when Minnesota's all-time STATE record low of -60° was recorded at Tower, about 80 miles to the north of Duluth, and well away from the moderating influence of the lake. Some say that in areas around Tower with slightly different microclimates the temperature may have been even lower. Unlike in Duluth, where -40° is extremely rare, temps in the -40s are every-winter occurrences in Tower, often occurring several times in a single winter. Even -50's aren't that amazingly rare there.

As for the heat bursts: It might get that hot for a very short period of time, but such extreme temperatures don't usually make it into the weather records.

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by tvdxer

As for the heat bursts: It might get that hot for a very short period of time, but such extreme temperatures don't usually make it into the weather records.

That's true, but I just thought it was an interesting weather phenomena to mention. )

[Glitch]

Alaska's coldest recorded temperature was at Prospect Creek Camp in on January 23, 1971, at -80°F ambient.

Alaska's hottest recorded temperature was at Fort Yukon on July 27, 1915, at 100°F.