Would an inverted diurnal range interest anyone? (climate, warm, records)

[ColdCanadian]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if it got warmer every night and cooled down as the sun rises.

It could happen in a way that with increasing solar intensity, there is a drop in ambient temperature, so that when you combine the sun intensity with the shade temperature, you are just as warm at night as you are in the day, and just as cool in the day as you are in the night.

[nei]

I'm usually out much more in daylight, and prefer warmth. So, no, it would just make it cooler when I want to be out. On the hotter summer days I guess it would be ok just bizarre.

[ben86]

It's not unusual here in winter for the 'daytime' high to actually happen during the night - it happened nine times in a row over last Christmas/New Year - but that was nothing to do with the sun; it generally happens on full overcast days when the weather is in full-Atlantic mode just because of fronts or shifting air currents.

Higher-latitude and more maritime places like the Shetlands have this in winter even more than we do - this table below shows how random the time of the daily high can be and how it's largely influenced by wind speed:

[Mac15]

Yes the windspeed has a massive affect on my temperatures.

No joke. In a winter day or even a spring day it can go like this.

9am - 3c
12pm - 2.5c
3pm - 1.5c
5pm - 1c
6pm- 3c
9pm - 3.5c
3am - 4c
6am - 3.5c

That actually happens quite alot but its always cloudy when it does.

[Patricius Maximus]

I really like the coupling of darkness and the night-time cooloff. If nights were warmer than days it just wouldn't be the same. So I'm not interested in having an inverted range; however, the concept is interesting.

[sulkiercupid]

I doubt I'd like regularly inverted temperatures between day and night, in terms of comfort I prefer it to be cooler when sleeping and warmer when out and about in the day.

In cooler or less diurnally variable climates it wouldn't be that bad though, I'm thinking more of days where it's 30C+ at night and 15C-20C during the day.

[AdriannaSmiling]

No way!

To em, an inverted diurnal range sounds absurd but then again, I live in a place where the diurnal range can be as large as 30 F in winter and 40 F in summer. It's not uncommon to see this on clear days in December: High 60 F Low 32 F High 64 F Low 33 F. In August it's more like this : High 95 F Low 58 F High 90 F Low 56 F.

I'd find it really annoying if the day/night temperatures were reversed.

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As Ben has alluded to, getting a maximum temperature at nighttime is not unusual here, the sun will often have absolutely no effect on the temperature, and the minimum temperature could be reached while the sun is up, especially if a cold front is passing. Here are a few examples of unusual maximums IMBY..

30 December 2012 - 9.6C @ 11pm.
29 December 2012 - 11.5C @ 12am.
28 December 2012 - 11.6C @ 11pm.
23 December 2012 - 12.8C @ 3am.

There are many more, but I think four is enough.

[Weatherfan2]

Happens all the time here in winter because the solar strength and sun hours are minuscule and weather systems more effective, but I find it annoying, it is tedious to take temperature records when that happens.

[NWNJ]

No. I'd rather not have to deal with 10 degrees in the middle of the day in January. But that would be the least of my complaints. What about in July??? You could have nights as warm as 100 degrees! No way I'd ever be able to sleep in that! I can barely sleep as it is with 70 F at night. Oh yeah, and days would only be in the lower 60s. That isn't bad, but it's a lot lower than what I'd prefer in the middle of summer.