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In Duluth, Minnesota, it can be cold by the lake and warm at the top of the hill, away from the lake. This makes for a greater than 40 degree temperature change IN THE SAME CITY.
Florida can have some freakish gradients during transition periods. One afternoon back in October which saw an early cold front, it was down to 67F in Tampa and still 91F in Miami. Less difference than some of the other places mentioned but remember their average highs for the month are only a couple degrees apart, so it was pretty amazing. I also remember a 57/82 difference in those same cities more recently this February.
Well yeah, when there's a huge cold front or warm front moving in on the East Coast there's large temperature gradients. But in California, even a perfectly CA, sunny day in the summer will easily see twenty to thirty degree differences within 50 miles.
The biggest one that I've personally experienced was during a super miserable drive down from Erie to Eatonville, Georgia about 3 years ago that I'd rather forget, ha ha.
I was driving a moving van and the A/C had stopped working on the darn thing. It had been about 74 F in Erie when I left, about 79 in Pittsburgh and 86 F in Mill Creek, WV. My clothes were soaked and I looked like I had just jumped out of the shower. About 12 miles down the road in Durbin, WV the temperature was 75 F and the elevation much higher. It was raining cool rain so I rolled the window down and just let the cool rain spray me down as I drove.
It's not uncommon here to see quite a temperature difference between locations right next to Lake Erie and the outskirts of the city/nearby suburbs.
The biggest one that I've personally experienced was during a super miserable drive down from Erie to Eatonville, Georgia about 3 years ago that I'd rather forget, ha ha.
I was driving a moving van and the A/C had stopped working on the darn thing. It had been about 74 F in Erie when I left, about 79 in Pittsburgh and 86 F in Mill Creek, WV. My clothes were soaked and I looked like I had just jumped out of the shower. About 12 miles down the road in Durbin, WV the temperature was 75 F and the elevation much higher. It was raining cool rain so I rolled the window down and just let the cool rain spray me down as I drove.
It's not uncommon here to see quite a temperature difference between locations right next to Lake Erie and the outskirts of the city/nearby suburbs.
No joke, and the humidity in that region out there makes increasing heat so much worse...
I just saw on the news several kids were found in a compartment on the back of a pickup truck riding in 100F heat, no A/C.
What someone said above, in CA one can experience very big changes driving or hiking up a mountain over not so many miles, can make a short drive from 1k-3K elevation with blazing hot weather to 8K elevation with cold and snow. Or, from cool foggy Northern CA coast having 68F into brutally hot Redding with 100F+.
I did the reverse of I-8 mentioned by OP in June 2 years ago. Low/mid 60s on the coast (and cloudy). Sunny and 70s just a few miles east. Warmed up to the 80s by El Cajon I think. In the mountains it stayed in the 80s then I descended I watched the temp climb up and up. Made it to the east side of the mountains headed towards El Centro. 107.
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