Biggest diurnal range (hottest, average, 2014, night)
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There was a 28C temperature drop at Denver Airport in 12 hours a couple of days ago!
In the UK on Saturday Castlederg in Northern Ireland had a minimum of -7C & a maximum of 11.7C, so a diurnal range of 18.7C!
Denver's averages are just that it seems, the day-to-day variation in temperatures is pretty wild due to elevation, continentality and the effects of foehn winds. It's interesting how snow is easily possible 9 months of the year, a month like September has averages of 9C-25C yet averages an inch of snow. The diurnal ranges are just as variable rarely below 10C and often approaching 20C.
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Originally Posted by danielsa1775
The Greatest dirunal range in Australia is 37.4C, recorded in Eyre WA on 5th March 2008 according to Geo science Australia, from 6.8c to 44.2.
Eyre holds the record low temperature for WA -7C from memory as well. Despite being very close to the ocean it's obviously in some kind of extreme frost hollow.
Where I live, we can go from -55F to +50F in two or three days for sure. Not sure if it's ever gone quite that far in 24 hours though. The Delta River Valley immediately north of the Alaska Range gets the effects of both extreme continental climate mid winter temperature inversions and chinook winds from coastal weather systems coming out of the tropics.
The record for Minnesota is a high of 78 (26C) and a low of 7 (-13C), recorded in the 1980's one April, in Zumbrota I believe (southeast of Minneapolis).
-Biggest diurnal range in Canada 20 C (36 F) in August in parts of BC.
-In the Yukon, March and April have the highest diurnal variations (over 18 C in some spots).
-In much of Quebec and parts of Ontario February has the highest diurnal variations (over 16 C in some spots).
-The prairies have fairly even variations throughout the year with an annual average diurnal variation of over 16 C in some spots.
This are averages, I don't know what records would be. Parts of BC Can easily drop more than 30 C overnight in the summer time.
The record diurnal range is somewhere in Nevada that once had a high of 87 F (31 C) and a low of 12 F (-11 C) not sure where I'll look it up and post the link.
Also a place called Juniper Lake in Oregon during May 1968 I think had one day with a low of 0 F (-18 C) and a high of 81 F (27 C), if I'm not mistaken it broke the record low AND high for that day for that location.
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not sure where I'll look it up and post the link.
