Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
The record highs in Saskatchewan, and for that matter most of Canada, are also very difficult to break. Although the national record of 45 degrees Celsius was recorded in Saskatchewan, this was a one-off event and the summers are significantly wetter now than during the Dust Bowl years when that temperature was reached. The Okanagan Valley of interior BC is the only place in Canada that can reach that temperature in modern times, and it has flirted with the 42-43 mark in recent years; however, 45 does seem very difficult to breach.
Wow, 35.6c in September in the UK! Our record high for September is a mere 32.8c.
Yes, it has stood since 1906! In London it was only 35C, but it will be pretty hard to beat that! I'm surprised yours is so low though, when was that set?
Yes, it has stood since 1906! In London it was only 35C, but it will be pretty hard to beat that! I'm surprised yours is so low though, when was that set?
The record for September is pretty recent, actually (it was set on the 11th of Sep 2011, the previous record was there since 1946).
After looking a bit more through the records, I saw that record highs for Jan, Feb, Apr, May and Sep were set this millennium (so not only Apr and May), and the record high for November is actually standing since the 16th of Nov 1963, but it was equaled in recent years.
The latest record low is for November, and it was set in 1988, so no record lows since then.
They still are for the US. Rather imprecise, but maybe it's better that way, since I'm not sure I trust more precise measures anyway.
I suppose more precise measurements are less needed in climates like yours with more variation. If we still used Fahrenheit then I think we would have had 11 days in a row last winter with highs of either 43 or 44 Also a lot of our ice days and frosts wouldn't technically happen, since all our -0.1, -0.2 and some of our -0.3 temperatures would just be recorded as 32F.
I'm surprised by Zagreb's lowish September record as well.
Quote:
Originally Posted by irlinit
Similarly, our September 35.6C will be very hard to beat.. the second half of august never seems to deliver heat in recent years!
Yeah late August heatwaves seem to have issues moving north for some reason lately. For example 2010, with 40°C in Toulouse, but only 31°C in Paris and a mere 25°C in London (using Blagnac, Orly and Heathrow). Or 2011 with 40°C, 33°C and 24°C respectively. Those were frustrating. Quite different from last July/early August.
As people were discussing summer low temperatures in another thread & the frequency of sub 10C temperatures in a British summer, I decided to take a look back through the weather records of Portsmouth. Using the Met Office station at Southsea (1890-2006) I found that the record low temperatures for the summer months are as follows:
For my city the absolute summer lows are 7.1°C in July and 7.5°C in August.
The official weather station is also located at the seaside less than a hundred meters away from the shore.
In a regular summer the span is very narrow and although the average low in both months is about 14°C, it does rarely descend below 11°C during July and August and also the highest low is rarely over 18°C.
The last time the station dropped below 10°C in either July or August was in August 2010 with 9.1°C.
And the time before that was in 1996.
So a low of 7°C is really hard to beat here in midsummer (it would be even very uncommon already in June and up to Mid September).
Also the June low of 3.0°C is something that will be very hard to reach again, it is even lower than our September low of 3.6°C.
The winter lows are actually quite tame here, not even -20°C has been officially reached, (lowest is -18.6°C in February, January low is -17.2°C, December low -15.6°C).
If we would get the right setup during a long and harsh winter, a reading of -20°C or below might not be out of question in my opinion even close to the sea.
As for the highs most of them seems to be beatable
13.1°C for January, is very likely
15.3°C for February, also very likely
22.5°C for March, possible but not so likely
28.9°C for April, this already a good figure for April, think the chance to break that record is rather slim.
30.3°C for May, set in 2005, likely to beat
34.3°C for June, set in 2002, not so likely but possible
34.1°C, for July, even lower than our June record so should definately be possible
35.8°C, for August, set in 1992, not so likely but i suppose an official 36°C+ reading is still possible here with the right conditions being present.
30.7°C, for September, possible in a warm September start
25.9°C, for October, just recently set in 2011, Bremen even had 28.6°C! that day.
Think this will be hard to reach again, the warmest Octobers before topped at 24°C max.
18.4°C, for November, not very easy to reach but i suppose a 19 or 20°C maximum is still possible with the most favourable conditions being present.
14.0°C, December, as for the other winter month record highs, they should still be beatable by one or two degrees.
Last edited by The East Frisian; 07-02-2014 at 05:19 PM..
The record highs in Saskatchewan, and for that matter most of Canada, are also very difficult to break. Although the national record of 45 degrees Celsius was recorded in Saskatchewan, this was a one-off event and the summers are significantly wetter now than during the Dust Bowl years when that temperature was reached. The Okanagan Valley of interior BC is the only place in Canada that can reach that temperature in modern times, and it has flirted with the 42-43 mark in recent years; however, 45 does seem very difficult to breach.
Lytton/Lillooet in the Fraser Canyon too. They hold the second hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada at 44.4ºC. The South Okanagan is hotter on average but Lytton/Lillooet see more extremes.
As people were discussing summer low temperatures in another thread & the frequency of sub 10C temperatures in a British summer, I decided to take a look back through the weather records of Portsmouth. Using the Met Office station at Southsea (1890-2006) I found that the record low temperatures for the summer months are as follows:
What surprises me isn't the actual figures, but how many times those exact figures have been reached & why they didn't go even 0.1C lower?
The same goes for the absolute record low, -8.0C was achieved in 1945, 1954, 1963 & 1987...
It seems that certain places have an absolute temperature threshold that cannot be breached.
Of course the global trend is toward rising temperatures, with flukes cherry-picked here and there. And the oceans are storing 90% of the newly trapped heat, which will come back around one way or another. Except in America where opinion polls decide the laws of physics.
Sydney's all time low of 2.1C will never beaten. I just can't see a 0C weather near the coast in here...
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Also a lot of our ice days and frosts wouldn't technically happen, since all our -0.1, -0.2 and some of our -0.3 temperatures would just be recorded as 32F.
