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If you want to know the maximum range your place could get in a month why not just look at what that month's highest and lowest temperatures on record are? Bit simpler no?
If you want to know the maximum range your place could get in a month why not just look at what that month's highest and lowest temperatures on record are? Bit simpler no?
Not really, I'd have to check all 40 years of data individually to get that information, so quicker to look at the months I already know had unusual weather.
Not really, I'd have to check all 40 years of data individually to get that information, so quicker to look at the months I already know had unusual weather.
So there is nothing available that shows the record highs and lows for each individual month? All the wikipedia tables show that.
That is the biggest difference one could get between the highest and lowest temperatures of each month surely
I guess I just don't understand the question. When the OP said biggest "potential" temperature range I interpret that to mean the biggest difference one could get in a single month which is surely just the difference between the record high and low for that month.
Or did he mean the average, or typical difference? WTF.
Or did he mean the average, or typical difference? WTF.
He/she means the range between the highest possible temperature in the coldest month (X) and the lowest possible temperature in the warmest month (Y), given than X > Y in most climates. But I think it would be more reasonable to use the extremes that can be expected to occur every year.
Using the OP's metric, in Washington, DC, 52F (Jul record low) to 79F (Dec/Jan record high), although in Jul+Aug it rarely dips to 60F these days and in abnormally cold months such as Feb 2010 or Jan 1977 the temp will max out at most 50F. Basically, in the vast majority of years, 52F is guaranteed from October to May; in May 2012, which was totally unremarkable for high temp extremes but was consistently warm, the lowest temp was only 52F, the average low at the beginning of the month. The 1981−2010 average annual extreme temp range is 10F to 99F
In Pittsburgh, 42F (Jul record low) to 74F (Dec record high). It seems only in several months on record has the former not been attained the entire month, a notable month being Jan 1977. The 1981−2010 average annual extreme temp range is −4F to 93F.
Record low for July: 51 F / 11 C
Record high for January: 78 F / 26 C.
So 51-78 F / 11-26 C. We rarely get winter days that are warmer than some summer days; occasionally we have at least one Jan or Feb day with a high higher than that of a July or Aug day. However, every year's warmest January day will be warmer than the coolest July night.
For instance January 30, 2013, with a high of 73 F / 23 C, was warmer than July 4, 2013, with a high of 71 F / 22 C.
February 23, 2012 hit 77 F / 25 C, topping July 12, 2012's 74 F / 23 C.
2011 didn't have one.
2010 didn't have one.
February 8, 2009 and August 23, 2009's highs were tied at 73 F / 23 C.
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