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Flagstaff, AZ = 97
Duluth, MN = 97
Fairbanks, AK = 96
Key West, FL = 95
Honolulu, HI = 95
Here are some other cities with record highs of 96 degrees:
Alamosa, CO
Caribou, ME
Worcester, MA
Cape Hatteras, NC
Beckley, WV
Why does Fairbanks and the north get so hot? Here in Canada the hottest places outside of BC this past summer were in the Northwest Territories (up to 98 degrees F). Even Windsor, Ontario at 43 degrees N couldn't come close to that even though it's closer to the equator than the north pole. Fairbanks is so far north, it's north of North Pole. I kid you not. I know because I've been there 4 times.
Hah, Verkoyansk north of the Arctic Circle has a record high of 99, so warmer than Key West and Honolulu. If you said that to the first 100 people you saw on the street I wonder how many people would believe you?
Very warm record highs for both of these high -latitude towns.
Fairbanks and Verkhoyansk are inland and both have very continental climates, even extremely continental for Verkhoyansk. They also have very long sunhours in summer due to the high latitude (which also might help).
Trondheim, with a far more oceanic climate, has an all -time high of 35C / 95F.
Very warm record highs for both of these high -latitude towns.
Fairbanks and Verkhoyansk are inland and both have very continental climates, even extremely continental for Verkhoyansk. They also have very long sunhours in summer due to the high latitude (which also might help).
Trondheim, with a far more oceanic climate, has an all -time high of 35C / 95F.
Wow at Trondheim getting 35! I thought the Oslo region would potentially be the hottest area in Norway, and didn't it get close to their record high of 35 or 36 or something last summer?
The Leeds record is 34.4 / 94. Nowhere in the north of England has ever seen 35 apart from a very dubious old record, though somewhere just over the border in Wales about two miles away from Chester has seen 35.2.
34.4C is still impressive for the very oceanic climate in the north of England IMO.
Oslo's warmest high was 33.4C in July this year, so not close to their record high of 35C. However, Oslo had many days above 30C last summer.
Record high in Norway was indeed recorded in a valley some 100 km NNW of Oslo (Nesbyen 35.6C), so in the larger Oslo-area.
Trondheim's record high dates back to July 22th 1901. Oslo's record high was the day before! A true heat wave in July 1901.
The weather station in the city in 1901 was closer to the center and at lower altitude than today's station at Voll (127 m).
However, there have been nearly as warm temperatures later. Just next to Trondheim Airport Værnes, 34.5C was recorded 17th of July 1945. The airport and weather station there did not exist in 1901.
34.3C was recorded In Siccajavre near Kautokeino on June 23th 1920. This is 69 N and 382 m asl. Still warmest temperature ever in Norway north of the Arctic Circle (33.3C last July). The weather station there is still operational. This village is the coldest inhabited place in mainland Norway by annual mean - -3C! I am still impressed by that record, and the fact that is was in June, as July is significantly warmer. Weather forecast for
Khatanga in Northern Siberia has a record high of 36.7°C/ 98°F.
Its at almost 72° North and also not too far away from the coast, so probably the northernmost place with such a high record high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatanga,_Russia
Khatanga in Northern Siberia has a record high of 36.7°C/ 98°F.
Its at almost 72° North and also not too far away from the coast, so probably the northernmost place with such a high record high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatanga,_Russia
I would say so. 72° North in Canada is in the Arctic Ocean. Inuvik (72° North), some 50 miles from the Arctic Ocean, can get over 90F/32C in any of the three summer months.
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