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The record high of 41.6 C will probably never be broken in my lifetime. We've only even exceeded 35 C two or three times to my knowledge. On the other hand, we get within a degree or two of the -7.1 C record low every other year.
The March record low of -32.8C recorded on 18 March 1942 seems completely unbreakable. We haven't gone below -30C since January 1987, and to do that in March seems impossible. Last March was one of the coldest in a long time (especially the lows), but the record low was -20.4C, far away.
The record high of 35.9C in July is already 99 years old, and I don't think it will be challenged. The conditions must be perfect with a massive Russian high and a blocker in Scandinavia, but it is possible, like in 2010. Still very unlikely. If we were in SE Finland the odds could be a little bit better, but very improbable here.
post what you think is your locations most extreme weather record. by that, i mean one current temperature/precipitation record that is so far of the charts that you can't see it being broken in the near future.
for me, gothenburgs most unbreakable weather record is the april record high of 28.5C in 2000. the reasons for this are:
1. despite many extremly warm aprils in the last decade (3 of them were record-breakingly warm at the time) not a single day of those months managed to reach a maxima higher than 24.8C (which, excluding the 28.5C-reading, would be the all-time record high for april).
2. swedens all time record high for april is just 0.5C higher, and was recorded at an inland station in halland (genevad), not subjected to the same dampening effect on temperature of the cold north sea as is common during spring-time.
3. the all-time april record high of 28.5C is on par with/just a tiny, tiny bit below many central european locations april records a good bit further south, for which april generally is a much warmer month.
Indianapolis, Indiana, either the wettest Summer on Record set in 1875, or the Wettest Year on Record set just a year later in 1876, although we came pretty close to challenging that record wet year 1876 in 1996, so I would say for Indianapolis the most Unbreakable record for Indianapolis would be the Record Wet Summer of 1875. Records here in Indianapolis Indiana, U.S.A. go back to 1871.
I could add that the 442 sunshine hours in July 1994 seems to be pretty unbreakable. That's 80% of the max sunshine possible, and only two locations have recorded more than 420 hours. Helsinki's record is 405, so even a few cloudy days will ruin everything.
Good idea for a thread.
Many records are deemed unbreakable, or freak events - we only had to see January 2013 to see that the January 1939 heatwave in NSW and southern Australia was not a 1 in 1000 year event that some commentators claimed. I will look specifically at Sydney for the longest records.
Sydney city's record of 45.3C in Jan 1939 was then over a degree hotter than the 2nd hottest day ever, but was broken at 45.8C on Jan 18 2013. It reached 46.5C in Penrith in the outer western suburbs.
The record minimum of 2.1C though probably won't be broken due to the urban heat island effect- in fact the most recent record minimum for any month has been 1949- so it would seem virtually all minimums are now unbreakable.
The most vulnerable record would be the October max, now at 38.2C, as there have been several days of 39C -40C in the 1st week of November recorded.
The highest rainfall of over 327mm in one day in August 1986 appears close to unbreakable.
There has only been one calendar month of nil rain recorded - August 1995, so this can only ever be equalled.
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