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I've got loads more of these! The first a continuation of the premise in my New Orleans/Big Cypress stat.
Despite what happened at Big Cypress, the February 2015 North American cold wave actually ended up letting some of North Florida off very easy. The Tallahassee and Jacksonville airport stations come to mind, both ended up having a coldest temperature of the season above the normal for both 1981-2010 and 1991-2020.
In December 2021, Atlanta did not record any freezes. This is interesting enough on its own, but more interesting is the fact that Cape Hatteras (way out in the ocean and far more moderate than Atlanta for normal lows) did despite that.
Dallas (Love Field) did not record a freeze in January 2006. Learning about this was vindication for my hunch that it might be a good candidate for my list of places in the Southern US to monitor in winter to see if they can go the winter without a freeze.
Augusta's combination of being in the Sandhills, having a river that provides warmer microclimates around it, and having a decent urban heat island strongly amplifies the differences between rural and urban areas compared to a place with less sandy soil and no river/body of water.
It's to the point that while rural, subject to lots of radiational cooling Bush Field is USDA zone 8b bordering on 8a, the urbanized downtown on the Savannah River is almost certainly 9b, and probably a solid one at that. Even the semiurbanized Daniel Field that's 2km away from the riverside downtown is a solid 9a.
Today also a big drop from yesterday's high temperature.
Today's minimum of -11.2c is very close to the national October record.
Yea, that temperature is recorded this morning at 6:20. Yesterday's maximum in Kosanica was 13.9c, which means fell from yesterday's maximum to today's minimum was 25.1c
Amplitude from today's minimum to today's maximum in Kosanica is 30.9c! (from -11.2c to 19.7c recorded at 12:30 PM).
Btw the lowest temperature in Kosanica in October 2021 was also -11.2c (recorded at October 25).
Today's minimums is some other places in Montenegro and Serbia for comparison with Kosanica: Karajukića Bunari -8.4c , Njegovuđa -7c , Gornja Bukovica -6.7c , Mokro -5.7c , Sjenica -5.1c , Štitarica -4.6c , Pošćenje -4.4c , Boan -4c , Mateševo -3.3c , Kolašin -2.8c , Žabljak -2.7c , Donja Dobrilovina -2.2c, Slatina-Čačak -2.1c, Gradac -1.9c , Zaječar -1.8c
There is a place called Mount Elizabeth Station deep in the far north Kimberley of WA ( Australia ) ( 16.4*S ) that has recorded some of the coldest min temps by latitude in AU. The site is about 550m asl and the highest peaks nearby are about 900m asl.
The site has recorded a freeze in each month May - August.
Also records some extreme diurnals by Australian standards.
May 2012 -0.9c/24.2c
June 1998 -1.3c/29.5c
July 2013 -0.2c/27.9c
August 1995 -0.0c/24.6c
I camped in there in August 2012. The first 7 days of Aug 2012
1st - 4.1c/27.1c
2nd - 2.8c/28.6c
3rd - 3.3c/29.3c
4th - 3.5c/30.1c
5th - 3.7c/30.6c
6th - 4.2c/30.0c
7th - 4.1c/30.0c
According to a scientific study by RHMZRS, Sokolac station recorded -17.2c in October sometime between 1991 and 2008.
Do you happen to know the date of this value?
According to a scientific study by RHMZRS, Sokolac station recorded -17.2c in October sometime between 1991 and 2008.
Do you happen to know the date of this value?
Unfortunately i don't know. Do you have link of that scientific study of RHMZRS?
-17.2c in October in late 20th or early 21st century in the some Balkan place is really impressive. Such or even lower temperatures in October in the further past probably happened in places as Sokolac, Sjenica, Kosanica, Njegovuđa etc. Since the lowest temperature ever recorded in Belgrade in October was -13c recorded at October 30, 1920, and places that i mentioned in previous sentence are quite colder than Belgrade and they are known by frosts. From 1936 to present day the lowest temperature in Belgrade in October was only -6.9c
Sokolac has potential for pretty low extremes. Climate of Sokolac is comparable with Sjenica. Both are on the plateaus, station in Sokolac is at 872 m (in Sjenica is at 1038 m as i mentioned earlier).
Btw we are approaching November. In November 2008 lowest temperature in Sjenica was -26c and in Karajukića Bunari -30.5c. We will see how low in this November they can fell, as well Sokolac and of course Kosanica. It is not necessary for this November to be significant colder than average as whole, one stronger cold period would be enough for interesting minimums in places that i mentioned.
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Unfortunately i don't know. Do you have link of that scientific study of RHMZRS?
-17.2c in October in late 20th or early 21st century in the some Balkan place is really impressive. Such or even lower temperatures in October in the further past probably happened in places as Sokolac, Sjenica, Kosanica, Njegovuđa etc. Since the lowest temperature ever recorded in Belgrade in October was -13c recorded at October 30, 1920, and places that i mentioned in previous sentence are quite colder than Belgrade and they are known by frosts. From 1936 to present day the lowest temperature in Belgrade in October was only -6.9c
Sokolac has potential for pretty low extremes. Climate of Sokolac is comparable with Sjenica. Both are on the plateaus, station in Sokolac is at 872 m (in Sjenica is at 1038 m as i mentioned earlier).
Btw we are approaching November. In November 2008 lowest temperature in Sjenica was -26c and in Karajukića Bunari -30.5c. We will see how low in this November they can fell, as well Sokolac and of course Kosanica. It is not necessary for this November to be significant colder than average as whole, one stronger cold period would be enough for interesting minimums in places that i mentioned.
I asked RHMZRS about that reading few weeks ago, but they haven't answered yet. If it's correct I'm guessing it must have occured in 1991, 1997 or 2003.
About November minimums: Sokolac recorded -29.6c on 26 November 1975. It's hard to read that number in the scanned version of the monthly bulletin, but I think I read it right.
On the same day the temperature dropped to -22.8c at Vámosmikola in Hungary.
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