Temperature Ranges For Your City/Metro Area (warm, recorded, temperatures)

[tijlover]

Here in Las Vegas, when I see the temperatures throughout the valley, any time of the year, there can be a range of 5-10 degrees, depending on where you are in the Valley. I'm way down at the near-bottom of the desert floor, and it's sometimes hotter here than the recorded temperature at the Airport.

I sometimes envy the folks up in Anthem in summer, which is some 1000 feet higher in altitude, which brings cooler summers, but come winter it's colder up there and warmer being on the desert floor.

Is there much a temperature range in your metro area, or is it generally pretty even throughout?

[Toni Hamilton]

I was wondering the same thing. I was considering moving to Anthem. I live down in the valley desert floor. It gets hot! Ive heart that it stays up to 10 degrees cooler in the summer up there in anthem. Where as in phx valley its 110, in anthem/new river its like 100. But ive been watching the news the last week and the temperature now is cooler in the valley then ther (from what they say) its like 65 here in phx and 70 in anthem. and 40 in the morning and 45 in anthem...? i dont get it? does the temp just stay realy regulated, maybe. Its pretty up there in the mountains though.

[Derek40]

From what I have read, the biggest variations in temperature across a metropolitan area are seen in places like California - where sometimes the temp can be 15C or more difference between the coast and outer suburbs.
It also depends on how you define city limits.
Places like Sydney can have as much as 15C difference in maximumum temps between the coast and the outer western suburbs of Richmond or Penrith, ie away from the coast is much hotter, but more commonly it is around 3- 5C.
The Blue Mountains are technically not part of Sydney, but can be up to 10C cooler due to the 1000 metre elevation.
Here in Newcastle it is similar to Sydney, the temperature is recorded at Nobbys Head - an exposed ocean headland - but normally forecast at Newcastle University - about 10 kilometres back from the coast.
This is a much more representative temperature, especially for people like myself who lives about 10K's or so further inland.
Some of these ocean headland temperatures - you can virtually take NO notice of at all.

[Sun_dog]

Melbourne can have large differences in low temps especially, mostly in summer. Last night is a perfect example so I'll post the obs.

Note "Coldstream", a full 10C cooler than the city centre and many other suburbs. It's located in a valley so I think it tends to get cool air flowing into the valley at night. Other big differences are at Geelong and Avalon, seperate towns but only an hour drive southwest from Melbourne.

[susancruzs]

I post frequently about the temperature differences between Two Rivers and Manitowoc, especially in the summertime. As you leave Manitowoc and head north along the lake, you are actually heading out a little bump out, which is where Two Rivers sits. Many days as much as 15 degrees cooler and the mileage between the two towns is all of 8 or so.

It is a unique situation where I am, if I walk straight south 5 blocks Lake Michigan is ahead, but also east of me and everyone knows Lake Michigan is pretty much east of Wisconsin. Two Rivers calls itself the "cool city" for a very good reason! I have to cross the river to get downtown so I have water on 3 sides and many times our side is foggy, fog horn going and downtown (not a mile) is sunny as can be!

[ben86]

There's definitely a difference within London. Normally the centre will be 2-4F warmer than the suburbs, particularly at night, but on the morning of December 20th just gone under a polar air mass with clear skies, the station nearest to me at Hampstead was -5.8C (21F) (on a slight hill at 400 feet), the centre (100 feet) was -9C (16F), other places around the city were about -12C (11F) and Chesham, one of the suburbs at the end of the underground system was -19.6C (-4F), giving a difference of 13.8C (25F) within 20 miles in the same metro area. This was likely the biggest range in a very long time.