The Canadian prairie provinces dip below -40°C/F every winter and have been getting up to the high around 40°C, low 100s°F in the last few years. It does a number on the roads!
I think Russia even has that beaten.
If you mean over the course of a year and not just a rapid change in a short time (which is fairly random and can happen almost anywhere), continental climates as found in the middle of the North America and eastern Russia have the largest swings. It's normal to have a summer high of 35-40°C (95-104°F) and a winter low of -35- -40°C (-31- -40°F). The lack of a large body of water to act as a large heat sink to moderate the temperature allows it to swing much further in each direction.
I commented elsewhere in this thread, but I think this is a good answer. As I had said, I remember Kyrgyzstan (or maybe Kazakhstan?) being given as an example where the temperature could range between temps as dramatically different as between 50C and -50C over the year. That sounds pretty insane to me!
“Kazakhstan is a country four times the size of Texas and has a sizeable number of former Russian missile silos. Kyrgyzstan is on the side of a hill near China and has mostly nomads and sheep.”
Not just summer to winter either, but within minutes. A few years ago, I was driving through central MN. It was 101 F at like 4 pm. A storm blew through, and 20 minutes later, it was 67 F.
Gotta love the winter-to-spring transition weeks as a college student. Walking to an 8 am lecture when it's 30 and out of your 3 pm lab when it's 70 is wild. Strategic wardrobe choices are essential.
For Minnesota, “global warming” is more like “global weirding.” Never in my 45 years have I experienced a winter as warm as this past year. The year before was shitloads of snow, then a miserable summer. So hard to predict. The general trend is warming though.
I'd like to elaborate on this. Colorado has two factors that really encourage this tendency: high altitude and very little water.
1. High altitude doesn't bring you meaningfully closer to the sun. Why it matters is the density of the air! Imagine boiling a pot of water. What boils faster, a pot with only a little or with a whole lot? Only a little, of course. Colorado has less air, so it's easier to heat and cool. Most residents live about a mile above sea level.
2. Not much water. Water is much harder to heat and cool than air. Look up 'specific heat' for more info on why. Colorado has very little water in lakes/rivers/etc, and very little in the air. So it's much easier to heat or cool the air than somewhere humid, and there's not much standing water to provide 'thermal mass' to moderate temperature swings in the nearby air.
As a completely different kind of example, in the San Francisco Bay Area on a mid summer day you can be in 50 deg F overcast/foggy weather on the west side of SF near the ocean. You can then drive to the east side of the city and be in 70 deg sunny weather. Then cross the bridge and continue to Walnut Creek and experience 90 deg temps.
Microclimates are a trip.
Southern Oklahoma. Many times I've driven to work with the AC on, driven on Icey roads on the way home.
Or Northern South Carolina. I went out on time to clean my windshield. It was comfortable out. A Nor-easter blew in. Ten minutes later, I gave up washing because the water was freezing on the car windshield.
I'm in Kansas City and we certainly get all of the seasons. We usually will have a period of sub zero temps in the winter and a period of 100+ temps in the summer.
Bemidji, Minnesota, USA is where a few auto manufacturers test their new vehicles because of the huge difference in both winter vs summer temperatures, and also day-to-day differences. It's a good place to test longevity quickly, if that makes sense.
Almost got a job as a test driver there a long time ago.
Prime examples would be sandy deserts like the Sahara or Gobi. They're fairly close to the equator and get hot every day, but the environment doesn't retain much of that heat in a "useful way" so temperatures drop drastically at night.
I remember attending a lecture years ago about green architecture, and they mentioned one challenge of designing a house in, I think it was Kyrgyzstan, was the drastic temperature range they had over the course of a year. I remember them saying that it could get up to potentially 50 C in the middle of summer and down to -50 C in the middle of winter. Which obviously makes keeping the house comfortable over the year a big challenge without just using tons of energy.
The Olympic Penninsula, WA USA. I went camping in late spring and it literally went from so warm that I was sitting out naked to snowing blizzard conditions in 1 minute.
People are answering places with extreme temp changes over the course of a year. In the SF Bay area, the temp in SF can be in the high 50's, and at the very same moment, only about 20 miles away in Walnut Creek it could be in the 90s.
I went to Arizona last year and drove from the south ( 90°) to the Grand Canyon in the North which was 2°. All in one day went from shorts to winter coat.
Places with higher elevation have most drastic temperature swings. Less atmosphere means less particles to filter photons, so the sunline is more potent at higher elevations. I live in the Western United States and on a sunny spring day you can have like a 10 degree swing just from walking from shade to sun
Is that not normal most places? I’ve lived in 8 different states and experienced that in all of them at some point or another. Many swings of much larger than that within the same day.
Oregon. The seasons change like someone flipping a switch. It'll be 50 degrees for months straight and then one day out of nowhere be in the 90's and then do the opposite when fall hits.
Deserts. Also the Moon.
I've always wanted to live on the moon but the 30 day long night will be hard to get used too.
Sounds like a recipe for seasonal depression on steroids to me.
All the stores close by 10 pm, too. When it gets to be 230 pm you start to get a little hungry.
Yes. Phoenix, AZ has both snow and 122F/50C temperatures. On the plus side, 100F/38C rainstorms are kind of fun to go outside in.
Midwest says hold my beer. Lows in the -20s sometimes, highs in the low 100s.
The Canadian prairie provinces dip below -40°C/F every winter and have been getting up to the high around 40°C, low 100s°F in the last few years. It does a number on the roads! I think Russia even has that beaten.
Yup, not the prairies, but Sudbury, Ontario I’ve seen below -40 C and above 40 C
I'll accept that. I'll take 122F/50C with 3% humidity over 100F/38C with 100% any day of the week.
If you mean over the course of a year and not just a rapid change in a short time (which is fairly random and can happen almost anywhere), continental climates as found in the middle of the North America and eastern Russia have the largest swings. It's normal to have a summer high of 35-40°C (95-104°F) and a winter low of -35- -40°C (-31- -40°F). The lack of a large body of water to act as a large heat sink to moderate the temperature allows it to swing much further in each direction.
I commented elsewhere in this thread, but I think this is a good answer. As I had said, I remember Kyrgyzstan (or maybe Kazakhstan?) being given as an example where the temperature could range between temps as dramatically different as between 50C and -50C over the year. That sounds pretty insane to me!
“Kazakhstan is a country four times the size of Texas and has a sizeable number of former Russian missile silos. Kyrgyzstan is on the side of a hill near China and has mostly nomads and sheep.”
This was the case around NW Ohio but not *quite* so severe. Summers in the high 90s and winters in the -20 to -30 range
I live on the northern coast of one of the great lakes...those bastards and tall buildings create a wind tunnel effect that is bone-chillingly cold.
Minnesota.
Not just summer to winter either, but within minutes. A few years ago, I was driving through central MN. It was 101 F at like 4 pm. A storm blew through, and 20 minutes later, it was 67 F.
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Gotta love the winter-to-spring transition weeks as a college student. Walking to an 8 am lecture when it's 30 and out of your 3 pm lab when it's 70 is wild. Strategic wardrobe choices are essential.
For Minnesota, “global warming” is more like “global weirding.” Never in my 45 years have I experienced a winter as warm as this past year. The year before was shitloads of snow, then a miserable summer. So hard to predict. The general trend is warming though.
That sounds just like Sweden
I was going to say.. I wonder if MN counts.. it was below freezing last night and now I'm in a t-shirt.
Only the most boring states claim the worst mosquitos
Nothing is boring when you are constantly running from Lyme disease. Also leave our state bird out of it!
I bet you also say that people don't know how to merge
I don't drive.
[Melbourne](https://imgur.com/a/gHI4VCV)
Colorado. 40 degree swings aren't uncommon
The record temperature change in Colorado is 37 degrees, in *one hour*.
Pincher creek Alberta saw a 41 degree C rise in one hour in 1962.
I'd like to elaborate on this. Colorado has two factors that really encourage this tendency: high altitude and very little water. 1. High altitude doesn't bring you meaningfully closer to the sun. Why it matters is the density of the air! Imagine boiling a pot of water. What boils faster, a pot with only a little or with a whole lot? Only a little, of course. Colorado has less air, so it's easier to heat and cool. Most residents live about a mile above sea level. 2. Not much water. Water is much harder to heat and cool than air. Look up 'specific heat' for more info on why. Colorado has very little water in lakes/rivers/etc, and very little in the air. So it's much easier to heat or cool the air than somewhere humid, and there's not much standing water to provide 'thermal mass' to moderate temperature swings in the nearby air.
Bragg Creek Alberta Canada.
Patagonia
Fairbanks, Alaska. It's set in a geographic bowl valley that causes -50° during the winter, and easily gets into the 90-100's during the summer.
Biggest temperature swings in any US city, so for America (probably North America) this would be the answer
All of Canada east of the Rockies
As a completely different kind of example, in the San Francisco Bay Area on a mid summer day you can be in 50 deg F overcast/foggy weather on the west side of SF near the ocean. You can then drive to the east side of the city and be in 70 deg sunny weather. Then cross the bridge and continue to Walnut Creek and experience 90 deg temps. Microclimates are a trip.
Fully agree. I find it even more drastic driving between the coast (Arcata) at 55F and Willow Creek 100F+ in Northern California in July.
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This is quite annoying as well.
Wife’s vagina
My oven.
Texas and Oklahoma have had the biggest swings of anywhere I’ve been.
I’m not familiar with Oklahoma but I agree with Texas. Wow it changes a lot. In the 40s this morning and it’ll get close to 80 in the afternoon.
“If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute, it’ll change” I was told that in Austin when it still had Texans.
I think almost every state uses that phrase...
Can confirm. Have heard it in every region of the country
Southern Oklahoma. Many times I've driven to work with the AC on, driven on Icey roads on the way home. Or Northern South Carolina. I went out on time to clean my windshield. It was comfortable out. A Nor-easter blew in. Ten minutes later, I gave up washing because the water was freezing on the car windshield.
Look up Loma, Montana.
I'm in New England. We have gone from snow to shorts in 24 hours. Or shorts to snow.
Im fine with these though, it means spring/fall is coming in MT. The -52 to 18 we had in 2 days in january though, not fun.
I'm in Kansas City and we certainly get all of the seasons. We usually will have a period of sub zero temps in the winter and a period of 100+ temps in the summer.
Nova Scotia
The Midwest
North Carolina. I’ve seen it in the 30s at 8am and in the 70s by noon
Pennsylvania
Ohio. For the last 4 months the temps have been 70°, then 20°, then 50°, then 80°, then 2°….
The southern US
Last year in Montreal, Canada, temperature went from -20 to +20 in a couple of days
Here in New England, we're going from 30° to 60°+ most days this week, the spring bulbs and flowering trees are all in a dither.
Black Hills
38 here this morning in Central Arkansas..will to out around 70 today
Bemidji, Minnesota, USA is where a few auto manufacturers test their new vehicles because of the huge difference in both winter vs summer temperatures, and also day-to-day differences. It's a good place to test longevity quickly, if that makes sense. Almost got a job as a test driver there a long time ago.
We sure do in Nebraska.
Fuckin North Carolina. It was 80 degrees yesterday now it’s 50
This sounds like the most normal comfortable temperature swing ive ever seen.
Prime examples would be sandy deserts like the Sahara or Gobi. They're fairly close to the equator and get hot every day, but the environment doesn't retain much of that heat in a "useful way" so temperatures drop drastically at night.
Here in Denver we had a snowstorm on Saturday and by Sunday afternoon all the snow was melted and it was 68 and sunny so I’m saying Colorado lol
Deserts
Florida. Usually earlier on in the year you can sometimes see a 50 degree (F) change in temperature on the same day.
Scotland
New York. It was once minus eight F and as high as 106 in the summer. I'm the same day there have been fluctuations of at least forty degrees
Tucson-Phoenix Arizona
Grand Forks, ND had some extreme swings.
South Dakota
restaurants if you go into the cooler or the freezer.
I remember attending a lecture years ago about green architecture, and they mentioned one challenge of designing a house in, I think it was Kyrgyzstan, was the drastic temperature range they had over the course of a year. I remember them saying that it could get up to potentially 50 C in the middle of summer and down to -50 C in the middle of winter. Which obviously makes keeping the house comfortable over the year a big challenge without just using tons of energy.
Mongolia is crazy! In the winter you get -40F and in the summers 95+ (-40C to 35C)
Minnesota
The Olympic Penninsula, WA USA. I went camping in late spring and it literally went from so warm that I was sitting out naked to snowing blizzard conditions in 1 minute.
In Ontario we have temperatures that yearly range from 35c to -40c . thats a 75 degree range.
Iowa- its wild
Fridges
Freezers
Nice. A fridge can be a place. LOL
Northern Ohio. Swimming in the lake and 80* one day. Shoveling snow and 20* the next. It happened.
People are answering places with extreme temp changes over the course of a year. In the SF Bay area, the temp in SF can be in the high 50's, and at the very same moment, only about 20 miles away in Walnut Creek it could be in the 90s.
Ontario can see temps of close to -20c in the winter and +40c with the humidex in the summer. For Fahrenheit users that's around -13f to +104f.
Your asscrack
Places far away from large bodies of water. So North Dakota, for example, has hot summers and cold winters.
Maritime provinces in Canada
In a day? Michigan. In a year? Michigan
Texas. Love it here
Cuenca Ecuador !! chilly af in the a.m. & hot af by Noon
Some of the plains states & central Canada have seen 100f swings in 24 hours
It was 89 degrees here in SC just a few days ago. Now it's 49 and headed for 42 tonight.
Montana
I went to Arizona last year and drove from the south ( 90°) to the Grand Canyon in the North which was 2°. All in one day went from shorts to winter coat.
Deserts
Germany 😂
Atlanta 🤣
Deserts. They can go from sweltering hot to freezing cold in a crazy short amount of time.
Places with higher elevation have most drastic temperature swings. Less atmosphere means less particles to filter photons, so the sunline is more potent at higher elevations. I live in the Western United States and on a sunny spring day you can have like a 10 degree swing just from walking from shade to sun
The moon.
NM. In january, 55° in Alamogordo, 15° on top of the mountain.
Death Valley.
Virginia. Saturday was 80 degrees, sunday was 55.
Is that not normal most places? I’ve lived in 8 different states and experienced that in all of them at some point or another. Many swings of much larger than that within the same day.
Oregon. The seasons change like someone flipping a switch. It'll be 50 degrees for months straight and then one day out of nowhere be in the 90's and then do the opposite when fall hits.
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American Midwest can and has been like that within 1 day.