What is the Temperature in your city? (Part 7) (snowing, warmest, record)
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Where do you live, your climate sounds really nice. West Yellowstone?
Not West Yellowstone. There's part of Wyoming on the western side of the Tetons that you can only access through Idaho (well, unless you hike over the mountains or get dropped in by helicopter). It feels more like Idaho than east-of-the-Tetons Wyoming (i.e. Jackson Hole) and I like Idaho better than Wyoming anyway. Plus, this side gets more snow.
Yeah the record here is 10.4F. I'll leave the cold weather reports to the Northern US posters!
Lol, like the Canadian posters live in salubrious climate land. Philly got that cold in the 80's frequently, but not nearly as much since 1990. You can leave the cold weather reports to us in winter, but to be honest, I have to laugh at UK posters hot weather reports in summer. Your hot weather reports are laughable, with pretty much average summer weather here. Take the good with the bad. You have lousy summers imo, but you have better winters.
I wish someone could offer a realistic scientific based explanation for what happened in the 80's. The cold in North America was bizarre. While Europe was getting warmer and warmer compared to previous decades, we were in the deep freeze. It would be fascinating to see how Europeans would react to a decade like the 80's there. You can bet all talk of global warming would end. Similar data to what is shown below happened all over the eastern US in the 1980's. Once the decade of the 80's is not computed into our 30 year averages, you are going to see increases in average temps, frost data, growing zones, etc. The 1980's skew data. Maybe it was Mt. Saint Helens eruption.
Lol, like the Canadian posters live in salubrious climate land. Philly got that cold in the 80's frequently, but not nearly as much since 1990. You can leave the cold weather reports to us in winter, but to be honest, I have to laugh at UK posters hot weather reports in summer. Your hot weather reports are laughable, with pretty much average summer weather here. Take the good with the bad. You have lousy summers imo, but you have better winters.
I wish someone could offer a realistic scientific based explanation for what happened in the 80's. The cold in North America was bizarre. While Europe was getting warmer and warmer compared to previous decades, we were in the deep freeze. It would be fascinating to see how Europeans would react to a decade like the 80's there. You can bet all talk of global warming would end. Similar data to what is shown below happened all over the eastern US in the 1980's. Once the decade of the 80's is not computed into our 30 year averages, you are going to see increases in average temps, frost data, growing zones, etc. The 1980's skew data. Maybe it was Mt. Saint Helens eruption.
My first impressions of a Philly winter were from Rocky! It looked freezing cold so I guess I was always under the impression that that's what winters are like there.
I agree with you re summer over here. As other posters have pointed out before, our temperatures are more like your spring and fall. That's why we all head off to the Med during summer to get some heat and sun!
Realistically, we are never going to get much extreme weather here. Just Atlantic cloudy mildness, with the odd bit of continental weather mixed in.
The whole transport infrastructure in this country was designed for temperatures between 5 and 25C. Anything above or below that and we go into meltdown. Luckily, we are within that range 95% of the time!
Last edited by Dean York; 12-08-2013 at 12:31 AM..
My first impressions of a Philly winter were from Rocky! It looked freezing cold so I guess I was always under the impression that that's what winters are like there.
I agree with you re summer over here. As other posters have pointed out before, our temperatures are more like your spring and fall. That's why we all head off to the Med during summer to get some heat and sun!
Realistically, we are never going to get much extreme weather here. Just Atlantic cloudy mildness, with the odd bit of continental weather mixed in.
The whole transport infrastructure in this country was designed for temperatures between 5 and 25C. Anything above or below that and we go into meltdown. Luckily, we are within that range 95% of the time!
Despite this Nov and December, we usually don't get the arctic blasts until January or late December. The best description of winter here is a long slog of 30's and 40's F temps with two to three weeks of brutal cold and ice days thrown in (and low temps in the lower teens or single digits). Then in March a dramatic warm up.
In an average winter Philly looks like this about 71% of the time:
5c and overcast at 11:19, breaking the sunny spell that's been lasting since the 1st. However, the future still looks sunny.
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