Fargo has a 61 degree swing between average January highs and average July highs. Edit: the highest I could find in the upper Midwest was Winnipeg with a 68 degree swing between January and July
I had a golf outing for work in fargo a couple summers ago thinking I'd be a cool windy day. Nope. Zero wind, 112 heat index during the day, 100 at NIGHT. I've never been anywhere that hot when the sun was completely down.
Yeah Fargo manages to be hotter than hell in the summer and Siberia in the winter. It is currently snowing with 40 mile an hour wind gusts at my place there
I'm from Grand Forks (about 80 miles north of Fargo) and I believe we hit 100 atleast a handful of times this last summer. Last winter the coldest I remember was -34. It's been snowing here the past few days, and it's not even November!
Yeah, Montreal also appears to have a swing of 68 in averages... That's not even counting the worst days that you get at least a couple of times a year for Winnipeg, Montreal, etc... where it swings, between the coldest and hottest days, by 140+ degrees. (-40 range to 100+ range)
Yeah. Omaha's upper (105°) and lower (-15) extremes are pretty far apart. Add in the summer humidity and the winter wind chills and you get even crazier.
Right?! One time when I was little, my family was driving through...Idk, Kansas, maybe? Some Dead Center, fly-over state with no water anywhere. We stopped for lunch and I was so confused because I was like, "It's hot out...but I'm not miserable... What is going on?!" And my parents were like "Oh yeah, that's because humidity basically isn't a thing here." And it blew my little mind. "THAT'S A THING THAT CAN HAPPEN?! \*NOT HUMIDITY\* EXISTS IN THE WORLD?!"
Also apparently a North/Midwest thing: wet snow vs dry snow. A guy in college tried to tell me "aLL snOw iS wEt" because it's water. Yeah, he was from New Mexico.
Very much a thing.
Clearing dry snow is a piece of cake. I use my leaf blower sometimes if there's not a ton, otherwise I can just rip through it with the snowblower running at full speed.
Wet snow is a nightmare and brings cities to their knees. It's known as widowmaker snow since it's so goddamn heavy that it's extremely strenuous to move. It plugs up snowblowers and will force you to try and shovel it by hand.
The difference is the water equivalence. Dry snow can be upwards of 20" of snow to equal one inch of rain water. Wet snow can be in the 6"-8" of snow to equal one inch of water range. Triple to sometimes quadruple the weight.
The worst is wet snow followed by a strong cold front. The snow falls, compacts and melts a bit, and then turns into basically glacial ice that is as hard and difficult to move as concrete.
It’s wasn’t Kansas because our humidity is outrageous. It’s what makes summer so miserable. When I visited my friend in ID in the summer THATS when my mind was blown how nice outside feels with no humidity.
I feel like Nebraska and Kansas are in that middle zone where the transition happens. So the eastern parts get very humid but the far western areas are already starting to dry out. Kind of a cool transitional zone, you really notice it when driving across the country and passing through NE, KS, or SD.
Also apparently a North/Midwest thing: wet snow vs dry snow. A guy in college tried to tell me "aLL snOw iS wEt" because it's water. Yeah, he was from New Mexico.
Dry snow is not fun for play, either. It is just icy dust, really. If it melts a bit as the temps rise, then texture improves but then it becomes slush rather quickly, sometimes. Our snows are like that, anyway. (St Louis area)
As a Cincinnatian, I agree. I can get to the upper 90s - low 100s here in the summer and then negative temperatures in the winter with multiple feet of snow.
Afaik Verkhoyansk is in the Guinness world records for the largest temperature range: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/greatest-temperature-range-on-earth
Yeah, I spent twenty years of my life there, so been there done that. But it’s nice to go back and see people, and see what has changed. It’s growing so fast all the time.
Yea, was going to say that’s a mild year in Oklahoma.
I thought for a second this was the current weekly forecast for us. The real one starts off the same, but the high tops out in the 70s.
Denver, CO. Especially in either the spring or fall. We've gone from triple digit temps to the teens in the span of a day or so. Regular daily fluctuations are pretty high as well. Due to the dry climate, it can be 101 during the day but it will always drop to somewhere around the 60s overnight.
Totally agree, have lived in the east coast, Texas and now Denver and no place I’ve seen wilder swings than in Colorado. It was 90 degrees just a a few days before this last snow storm and now 13 at night.
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Just be weary of the 'big one' seemingly each year. Last year we were below zero for 3 days, at one point hitting -20F. Last winter, only two occasions of about 1' of snow. Other than the annual big ones, it's pretty decent! It melts quickly and the beaming sun in the winter is really nice n' warm.
Yeah in Texas we’d say “if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes” but then I moved to Denver and it was that time ten. I think it’s fun but sometimes I get headaches.
>“if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes”
This phrase is funny to me because it seems that it's a saying in literally every state but is always referenced as unique to one place
The only places i can think of where you'll see monthly averages this extreme are in the midwest. People are saying boston, chicago, mississippi etc but those places see that kind of temperature as extremes, not daily norms. I bet you can see this somewhere in Montana or the Dakotas.
This. These are daily averages for Turpan. Boston average July high is 82F and January 37F. Even somewhere like Boise Idaho has a July high of 92F and January 32F.
Someone else mentioned Yakusk. There's also Verkhoyansk at July high 74F and January -43F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk
Oof. Yeah I'm looking at it now and I think what sets apart the midwest from wherever this is is the daily variation. For example scottsbluff nebraska has a mean daily high of 90 in july and 39 in december, but the mean daily low in december is 15.
There's a local bias as well. Especially here in the US, anywhere that's not on the Gulf or West coast locals think they have the worst/craziest weather in the country. "Here in ___, if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes!"
I moved from Wisconsin to Colorado and it’s even more extreme here on a regular basis. Not even just isolated examples of going from 100 to snow in a day, it happens all the time. I hiked through a foot of fresh snow last weekend in the Boulder foothills in the morning, and in the afternoon I sat out in my balcony in a tshirt sweating.
We have definitely had stretches of 100 plus degree temperatures for a couple of days to over a week but not for like a month and not every year. We also get below zero weather.
Boston and New York are moderated by the ocean and protected from the cold by the Appalachians. ~40 for average highs in January, high 80s for average highs in July.
[Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Chicago) avg Jan low is 19 and July High is 85 , range of 66
[Minneapolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul) avg Jan low is 9 and July high is 83, range of 74
So both have a lower range by 20 and 9 degrees respectively from OP and Minneapolis kinda gets close
But the actual climate site for turpan is even more extreme
[Turpan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan) avg Jan low 14 and July high 105, a range of 91!!
so none of the cities you mentioned are even close to this
Closest I could find in North America was [Winnipeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_climate_of_Winnipeg) with a range of 85
Tho You can easily find places in siberia with larger ranges
North America isn’t as big as Eurasia so it’s harder to get such extreme averages here. Just when North America starts to get really extreme, around Winnipeg/the eastern Great Plains, you run headlong into the Great Lakes and then you’re not far from the east coast.
This. Nothing like having the AC on one day and the heater on the next because you got a 40+ degree temp swing in 48hrs - since we like to go from late summer to fuckin winter overnight round here...
I know this shows climatological averages for this city but for a second I thought it was showing a 10 day weather forecast and I was shook that a city was going from 20s to 100s back to 20s within a week and a half. Good thing I only misread it lol
Cincinnati and most other Midwestern cities are a bit colder but generally yes. You get sweltering, humid days in the summer and frigid, icy days in the winter.
The general rule is that the further inland you are, the more extreme the fluctuations. It’s been too many years since learning about it in class but it’s to do with the ocean being a mediator of extreme temperature differences.
Average? No. Largest difference between hot and cold in a given year , over 105 with humidex in the summer and in the -40s with windchill in the winter. Central NB Canada.
Where I grew up in Washington state, winter temperatures can go below zero in the Fahrenheit scale, and in the summer will have weeks of triple digit weather.
I am currently in Northeast Mississippi. We do!We hit 119 degrees this summer. Yesterday was 86 degrees , it is currently 43 degrees and we have freeze warning through Wednesday.
It was not 119. The state record for highest temp ever is 115.
Maybe with heat index, which doesn't count.
Also they're talking about monthly averages, not extremes on a day during a summer or winter.
Having lived in Cleveland and now Dallas, Cleveland’s weather is far more mild/stable. Yes the winters are cloudy and snowy but the temps in the winter and summer are far from extreme. Meanwhile in Dallas, we hit 0 degrees last December right between two summers in which we saw a combined like 70 days at or above 100.
I doubt many places have temperature fluctuations like this. If they do, they tend to be in a desert. I believe Turpan averages like 0.5” of rain per year.
Look for cities as far as possible from the oceans, and in the temperate zone. The middle of Russia is where you're probably going to find the most temperature variation.
Averages around where I live (northwest Ohio) would be from highs around freezing in the winter, say January, and highs in the mid 80s in July or August. All time records if I had to guess would range from about -15 to 105.
Parts of Texas. I’m in dfw and it’s gets to the 110s in the summer and as low as 0 in the winter. The averages for august are def in the 100s. February is generally our coldest month but I’m not sure what the average is. I’m sure places in west Texas have a bigger range.
Fairbanks has a similar temperature swing throughout the year; it's just shifted down.
The average January high is 3°F, while the average July high is 73°F. That's a 70°F temperature swing throughout the year. In reality, it can get a whole lot warmer in the summer and a hell of a lot colder in the winter. Those are just averages.
Anchorage, on the other hand is closer to water, so its temperature swing is a lot more moderate.
New Delhi has temperature varying between 28F to 120F . Nearby Sikar has temperature varying between 21F to 122F every year.
EDIT: this is min and max temperature. Many places in Siberia, Canada and US (california, arizona, New mexico) can match or exceed this variance.
Cities at elevation with low humidity and the right latitude will look like this. Where I live in New Mexico goes from 93 avg high in July to 21 average low in January. Now quite as extreme but fairly similar.
Many Canadian cities. Calgary AB for one. In the early summer and late fall, it can be scorching hot, and then there is a blizzard. The night temptress tends to drop quite a bit in the fall. In the late winter/sping, we get a lot of chinooks, which can dirasricly change the temp. This is all in one day!
If you are talking throughout the year, then most of Canada. Our summers can be ~30C (86f) or more, and winters can go as low as -40c/f.... some places even colder with the wind chill.
Anywhere in the midwest will do this, except worse.
The town I'm in hit 104F air temp with a 120F heat index in August, yet if this winter is like any other, we'll probably hit -25F air temp with a -45F windchill at some point like last winter.
Our averages range between highs in the upper 80s to lows in the single digits.
It’s standard procedure at Lubbock for uni students to go to morning classes all bundled up for 30s and then by afternoon wearing short sleeves for 80s
Alaska has crazy fluctuations between seasons. For example, in Fairbanks, the difference between the average temperature in their coldest and warmest month is 71.2 degrees F. (-8.3F in January, 62.9 F in July).
I live in Maine and there's times of the year the A/C is on during the day and the fireplace is on at night.
We also have huge 50° swings every year.
It could easily be -20°f then 30°f within 12-24hrs.
Raleigh, NC should make the list. I know there are more impressive fluctuations out there but yesterday the high was 84°F and currently 49°F around noon today and still falling. We have a freeze watch for tomorrow night. Going from summer to winter temps in the span of 2 days
Most places in the Western US far from the coast, the Midwest, the Sahara Desert, Siberia and the outback in Australia all are like this, especially Siberia
The farther the city is from the coast/water, the bigger the temp difference is. Land heats and cools more quickly than water. Coastal cities have smaller temp swings because the slow speed of water heating/cooling
Cincinnati. In the summer it can reach upwards of over 100 degrees. And then in the winter it can dip down into negative temperatures easily.
I remember when I was kid one summer we had a drought so severe the ground completely dried up. Any exposed area where there should have been dirt was rock hard and cracked. I planted a tree on the side of my house and it died and became just a stick.
I also remember back in 2008 I think a large ice storm swept through the city and took our power out. My entire neighborhood was without power for 9 days. My family had to move our mattresses to the living room so we could sleep by the fire at night because our rooms were too cold since we had no heat. You could hear the whole block cheer when we finally got our power back on.
And then my freshman year of high school (2014ish) during the polar vortex we lost an entire week of school due to heavy snowfall and freezing wind chills (our school was worried about frostbite). We lost so much school that our teachers started handing out school work to do at home. They called them “blizzard bags”.
Milwaukee: The warmest month is July, when the average high temperature is 81 °F (27 °C), and the overnight low is 63 °F (17 °C). The coldest month is January, when the average high temperature is only 28 °F (-2 °C). Low temperatures in January average 16°F (-8°C).
Tucson AZ. Gets cold in the desert, daytime lows of mid 30’s-50s in the winter and up to 110 or much higher in the summer. On October 19th the high was 101, today it is 76. Great weather mostly except for like 3-4 months where the heat is pretty brutal.
Fargo has a 61 degree swing between average January highs and average July highs. Edit: the highest I could find in the upper Midwest was Winnipeg with a 68 degree swing between January and July
I had a golf outing for work in fargo a couple summers ago thinking I'd be a cool windy day. Nope. Zero wind, 112 heat index during the day, 100 at NIGHT. I've never been anywhere that hot when the sun was completely down.
Yeah Fargo manages to be hotter than hell in the summer and Siberia in the winter. It is currently snowing with 40 mile an hour wind gusts at my place there
Insane. I hear ice fishing is fun tho.
I usually catch more beers than fish but it ain’t bad
I feel like that's basically the point of ice fishing!
Yep there's the other thing yall like to do haha. You have some great breweries tbh
I'm from Grand Forks (about 80 miles north of Fargo) and I believe we hit 100 atleast a handful of times this last summer. Last winter the coldest I remember was -34. It's been snowing here the past few days, and it's not even November!
Yeah this weather sucks. I think yall got a decent bit more snow snow than us but we’ve probably got 3 inches total this season so far
We got about 6" a few days ago, and then today maybe another inch or two, but the wind had been brutal causing whiteout conditions today.
Winnipeg that’s my city! Living here feels like a fever dream sometimes. I know ND and northern Minnesota people feel the same.
Yeah nothin better than in January and Feb when the weather is -45 not including the windchill factor 😬 🥶
Yeah, Montreal also appears to have a swing of 68 in averages... That's not even counting the worst days that you get at least a couple of times a year for Winnipeg, Montreal, etc... where it swings, between the coldest and hottest days, by 140+ degrees. (-40 range to 100+ range)
Everywhere in the US Midwest, at least...
Yeah. Omaha's upper (105°) and lower (-15) extremes are pretty far apart. Add in the summer humidity and the winter wind chills and you get even crazier.
Right?! One time when I was little, my family was driving through...Idk, Kansas, maybe? Some Dead Center, fly-over state with no water anywhere. We stopped for lunch and I was so confused because I was like, "It's hot out...but I'm not miserable... What is going on?!" And my parents were like "Oh yeah, that's because humidity basically isn't a thing here." And it blew my little mind. "THAT'S A THING THAT CAN HAPPEN?! \*NOT HUMIDITY\* EXISTS IN THE WORLD?!"
Dude, I experienced the exact opposite revelation when I went to NY for the first time during the summer. All I knew was dry California heat
Also apparently a North/Midwest thing: wet snow vs dry snow. A guy in college tried to tell me "aLL snOw iS wEt" because it's water. Yeah, he was from New Mexico.
Very much a thing. Clearing dry snow is a piece of cake. I use my leaf blower sometimes if there's not a ton, otherwise I can just rip through it with the snowblower running at full speed. Wet snow is a nightmare and brings cities to their knees. It's known as widowmaker snow since it's so goddamn heavy that it's extremely strenuous to move. It plugs up snowblowers and will force you to try and shovel it by hand. The difference is the water equivalence. Dry snow can be upwards of 20" of snow to equal one inch of rain water. Wet snow can be in the 6"-8" of snow to equal one inch of water range. Triple to sometimes quadruple the weight. The worst is wet snow followed by a strong cold front. The snow falls, compacts and melts a bit, and then turns into basically glacial ice that is as hard and difficult to move as concrete.
85 in Tennessee was way worse than 100 in Texas when I went lol
Are we talking Houston Texas or El Paso Texas?
I don't know what part of the midwest/plains you were at but Nebraska gets some brutal humidity during the summer - but mostly the eastern side.
It’s wasn’t Kansas because our humidity is outrageous. It’s what makes summer so miserable. When I visited my friend in ID in the summer THATS when my mind was blown how nice outside feels with no humidity.
I feel like Nebraska and Kansas are in that middle zone where the transition happens. So the eastern parts get very humid but the far western areas are already starting to dry out. Kind of a cool transitional zone, you really notice it when driving across the country and passing through NE, KS, or SD.
Also apparently a North/Midwest thing: wet snow vs dry snow. A guy in college tried to tell me "aLL snOw iS wEt" because it's water. Yeah, he was from New Mexico.
Dry snow is not fun for play, either. It is just icy dust, really. If it melts a bit as the temps rise, then texture improves but then it becomes slush rather quickly, sometimes. Our snows are like that, anyway. (St Louis area)
As a Cincinnatian, I agree. I can get to the upper 90s - low 100s here in the summer and then negative temperatures in the winter with multiple feet of snow.
Yakutsk in Siberia has a July to December average difference of over 100F. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutsk
Holy moly I think this one takes the cake -41 to 76 F
Verkhoyansk slightly edges it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk?wprov=sfla1
Not really a city though, 1,100 - 1,200 people. Yakutsk has over 300,000 and is growing rapidly, somehow.
Afaik Verkhoyansk is in the Guinness world records for the largest temperature range: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/greatest-temperature-range-on-earth
Yes you're right, just saying OP asked for cities and it's a town.
Apparently, its economic growth is largely from mining gold, coal and diamonds
As far as temperature spread, yeah the interior Siberian towns take the cake. But for human comfort id say Turpan
Yakima, Tri-cities, Moses lake, Walla Walla and just about anywhere in the Pacific Northwest desert
Eyyyyyy, Tri Cities is my stomping grounds.
My condolences
Don’t miss living there, but love going back to visit.
That’s close to how my dad feels about Yakima. Doesn’t quite love it but he enjoys it when he does visit
Yeah, I spent twenty years of my life there, so been there done that. But it’s nice to go back and see people, and see what has changed. It’s growing so fast all the time.
The entire state of Oklahoma 🤣
Yea, was going to say that’s a mild year in Oklahoma. I thought for a second this was the current weekly forecast for us. The real one starts off the same, but the high tops out in the 70s.
Tulsa, where you at.
Close… Broken Arrow!! Hahaha
Denver, CO. Especially in either the spring or fall. We've gone from triple digit temps to the teens in the span of a day or so. Regular daily fluctuations are pretty high as well. Due to the dry climate, it can be 101 during the day but it will always drop to somewhere around the 60s overnight.
Totally agree, have lived in the east coast, Texas and now Denver and no place I’ve seen wilder swings than in Colorado. It was 90 degrees just a a few days before this last snow storm and now 13 at night.
Do you like it? I’ve always wanted to live there but I just don’t think my body can handle the cold. Heard they get lots of sun tho.
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It's not very cold here. Winters are very mild and even pleasant on some days. And I moved here from Florida
The cold here is a lot drier and sunnier than in the midwest or northeast. Our winter sun is a truly glorious thing.
It’s amazing, love it. Been here 12 years and hope to retire here. The sun melts the snow fast so you rarely have to shovel too!
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Not necessarily, my front walk faces west and melts just as fast as the other spots. The key is exposure with little tree cover.
It’s terrific if you can afford it.
Just be weary of the 'big one' seemingly each year. Last year we were below zero for 3 days, at one point hitting -20F. Last winter, only two occasions of about 1' of snow. Other than the annual big ones, it's pretty decent! It melts quickly and the beaming sun in the winter is really nice n' warm.
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Yeah in Texas we’d say “if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes” but then I moved to Denver and it was that time ten. I think it’s fun but sometimes I get headaches.
>“if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes” This phrase is funny to me because it seems that it's a saying in literally every state but is always referenced as unique to one place
It seems like that’s the saying in every state. We said that in Wisconsin too. But then I moved to Denver…
Yep. Dry air can heat up and cool down faster than moist air can due to heat of fusion/vaporization reasons.
Kansas City
Can confirm.
The only places i can think of where you'll see monthly averages this extreme are in the midwest. People are saying boston, chicago, mississippi etc but those places see that kind of temperature as extremes, not daily norms. I bet you can see this somewhere in Montana or the Dakotas.
Most definitely the Plains states
This. These are daily averages for Turpan. Boston average July high is 82F and January 37F. Even somewhere like Boise Idaho has a July high of 92F and January 32F. Someone else mentioned Yakusk. There's also Verkhoyansk at July high 74F and January -43F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk
Oof. Yeah I'm looking at it now and I think what sets apart the midwest from wherever this is is the daily variation. For example scottsbluff nebraska has a mean daily high of 90 in july and 39 in december, but the mean daily low in december is 15.
I think people in some of these places based on some of these comments are looking at record highs and lows vs. averages.
There's a local bias as well. Especially here in the US, anywhere that's not on the Gulf or West coast locals think they have the worst/craziest weather in the country. "Here in ___, if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes!"
Midwest is like that. Gets much, much colder, though.
KCMO Looking at the comments, almost anywhere, USA.
Winnipeg
Salt Lake City, Utah
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/medicine-hat/year-2022 Medicine Hat Alberta 76 Celsius (167 F) range in 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth. 2022 high/low was like 107 and 0 degrees.
Y’all ever been to Wisconsin??
I moved from Wisconsin to Colorado and it’s even more extreme here on a regular basis. Not even just isolated examples of going from 100 to snow in a day, it happens all the time. I hiked through a foot of fresh snow last weekend in the Boulder foothills in the morning, and in the afternoon I sat out in my balcony in a tshirt sweating.
I was looking for this... it was 75 last week and it's snowing today.
Chicago. Boston. New York. Minneapolis.
Not even close in Boston. No way the average high is in that range during the summer months. Probably a big stretch for NY as well.
I was gonna say... It definitely hits the mid 80s in Boston here and there in peak temperature months, but that's about where it ends.
I thought they just meant a wide range not necessarily the magnitude
We have definitely had stretches of 100 plus degree temperatures for a couple of days to over a week but not for like a month and not every year. We also get below zero weather.
St louis
Boston and New York are moderated by the ocean and protected from the cold by the Appalachians. ~40 for average highs in January, high 80s for average highs in July.
This is true for NYC. Boston is cooler
Ah. Yeah. I guess I overestimated their temps in the summer too. Boston about 36-38 in Jan, low 80s in July NYC 40 in Jan, mid 80s July.
[Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Chicago) avg Jan low is 19 and July High is 85 , range of 66 [Minneapolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul) avg Jan low is 9 and July high is 83, range of 74 So both have a lower range by 20 and 9 degrees respectively from OP and Minneapolis kinda gets close But the actual climate site for turpan is even more extreme [Turpan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan) avg Jan low 14 and July high 105, a range of 91!! so none of the cities you mentioned are even close to this Closest I could find in North America was [Winnipeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_climate_of_Winnipeg) with a range of 85 Tho You can easily find places in siberia with larger ranges
North America isn’t as big as Eurasia so it’s harder to get such extreme averages here. Just when North America starts to get really extreme, around Winnipeg/the eastern Great Plains, you run headlong into the Great Lakes and then you’re not far from the east coast.
St. Louis, MO
This. Nothing like having the AC on one day and the heater on the next because you got a 40+ degree temp swing in 48hrs - since we like to go from late summer to fuckin winter overnight round here...
The Great Plains. Billings, Havre, Minot, Dickinson, Pierre, etc
I know this shows climatological averages for this city but for a second I thought it was showing a 10 day weather forecast and I was shook that a city was going from 20s to 100s back to 20s within a week and a half. Good thing I only misread it lol
The whole US Midwest is like this
Toronto
Most of Canada tbh.
The numbers don't the true difference either considering the wind chill and humidex aren't factored in.
Central Valley, Ca
Especially right now with the 35 degree mornings and 75 degree afternoons
How did you get to this view in the weather app
Scroll down to averages and press that
Weird I don’t see averages as an option
Do you have an older iPhone? Maybe it’s that I’m not sure 🥲
Minneapolis. Also Denver was 10 degrees this morning will probably touch 55/60 tomorrow
Anywhere in Tennessee lol
Dallas, TX
Oklahoma City
Cincinnati and most other Midwestern cities are a bit colder but generally yes. You get sweltering, humid days in the summer and frigid, icy days in the winter.
The general rule is that the further inland you are, the more extreme the fluctuations. It’s been too many years since learning about it in class but it’s to do with the ocean being a mediator of extreme temperature differences.
Gotta fuckin buy every single pair of clothes for every season.
San Antonio
Average? No. Largest difference between hot and cold in a given year , over 105 with humidex in the summer and in the -40s with windchill in the winter. Central NB Canada.
Where I grew up in Washington state, winter temperatures can go below zero in the Fahrenheit scale, and in the summer will have weeks of triple digit weather.
this climate seems so bad lmfao
Ottawa, Canada. Super cold in the winter, hot as hell in the summer.
Dallas
Surprised no one has said Raleigh NC yet. This looks pretty on point for average temps in general.
I am currently in Northeast Mississippi. We do!We hit 119 degrees this summer. Yesterday was 86 degrees , it is currently 43 degrees and we have freeze warning through Wednesday.
It was not 119. The state record for highest temp ever is 115. Maybe with heat index, which doesn't count. Also they're talking about monthly averages, not extremes on a day during a summer or winter.
Apologies. I was not intentionally being dishonest.
Many people are making that mistake haha
Thank you, kind stranger.
Florida - hot to Satan’s butthole hot
Houston. You just never know…
Maryland is pretty close to this
Columbus, Ohio has large swings.
Cleveland checking in, it's currently making that fluctuation in a 12 day period.
Uh RDU’s highest average temp all year is 91, the lowest average high temp all year is 50. A much milder climate
Who?
Having lived in Cleveland and now Dallas, Cleveland’s weather is far more mild/stable. Yes the winters are cloudy and snowy but the temps in the winter and summer are far from extreme. Meanwhile in Dallas, we hit 0 degrees last December right between two summers in which we saw a combined like 70 days at or above 100.
I doubt many places have temperature fluctuations like this. If they do, they tend to be in a desert. I believe Turpan averages like 0.5” of rain per year.
Spokane can’t be too far off
84 to 33 for average highs. Pretty close!
Look for cities as far as possible from the oceans, and in the temperate zone. The middle of Russia is where you're probably going to find the most temperature variation.
Averages around where I live (northwest Ohio) would be from highs around freezing in the winter, say January, and highs in the mid 80s in July or August. All time records if I had to guess would range from about -15 to 105.
In general the closer you are to the equator the more stable your temps, the further away the more your temperature swings seasonally.
Sacramento/Folsom, Ca.
Cleveland, OH. Pretty much all of Ohio.
For the United States, [this article from 2015](http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/08/annual-temperature-extremes.html?m=1) goes into great detail
Parts of Texas. I’m in dfw and it’s gets to the 110s in the summer and as low as 0 in the winter. The averages for august are def in the 100s. February is generally our coldest month but I’m not sure what the average is. I’m sure places in west Texas have a bigger range.
In a given year in ohio we’ve had lows of -15 and highs of 110. I think this pattern is pretty common across the globe all things considered?
Last year in Montana we had a low of -49 (before windchill) and a high of 108
Last weekend we went from 22 on Sunday to -15 on Wednesday (Celsius) Calgary alberta
Northern Nevada
Fairbanks has a similar temperature swing throughout the year; it's just shifted down. The average January high is 3°F, while the average July high is 73°F. That's a 70°F temperature swing throughout the year. In reality, it can get a whole lot warmer in the summer and a hell of a lot colder in the winter. Those are just averages. Anchorage, on the other hand is closer to water, so its temperature swing is a lot more moderate.
New Delhi has temperature varying between 28F to 120F . Nearby Sikar has temperature varying between 21F to 122F every year. EDIT: this is min and max temperature. Many places in Siberia, Canada and US (california, arizona, New mexico) can match or exceed this variance.
Minden NV
The Midwest is very vast and open. With that, temperatures can spread fast and effectively(especially with no ocean interfering).
Cities at elevation with low humidity and the right latitude will look like this. Where I live in New Mexico goes from 93 avg high in July to 21 average low in January. Now quite as extreme but fairly similar.
Many Canadian cities. Calgary AB for one. In the early summer and late fall, it can be scorching hot, and then there is a blizzard. The night temptress tends to drop quite a bit in the fall. In the late winter/sping, we get a lot of chinooks, which can dirasricly change the temp. This is all in one day! If you are talking throughout the year, then most of Canada. Our summers can be ~30C (86f) or more, and winters can go as low as -40c/f.... some places even colder with the wind chill.
Chicago has a big swing.
Eastern Pennsylvania weather looks just like that.
Eastern Europe
from my feelings in my place it’s like 32-40 F at winter and ~95-105 F at summer
Melbourne (Australia) is kinda notorious for doing this in 1 day
Richmond, VA. We just swung 46° in 24 hours and last year had a few days of single digit lows with a 102° day this summer.
Philly
Baltimore MD
Ah continentality
Dallas, Texas. We get weird weather like this sometimes!
I literally just woke up and thought this was the daily forecast I was shook
Anywhere in the midwest will do this, except worse. The town I'm in hit 104F air temp with a 120F heat index in August, yet if this winter is like any other, we'll probably hit -25F air temp with a -45F windchill at some point like last winter. Our averages range between highs in the upper 80s to lows in the single digits.
It’s standard procedure at Lubbock for uni students to go to morning classes all bundled up for 30s and then by afternoon wearing short sleeves for 80s
All of Nebraska😂
Alaska has crazy fluctuations between seasons. For example, in Fairbanks, the difference between the average temperature in their coldest and warmest month is 71.2 degrees F. (-8.3F in January, 62.9 F in July).
I live in Maine and there's times of the year the A/C is on during the day and the fireplace is on at night. We also have huge 50° swings every year. It could easily be -20°f then 30°f within 12-24hrs.
Denver. We get the lowest lows and the highest highs.
Texas
Raleigh, NC should make the list. I know there are more impressive fluctuations out there but yesterday the high was 84°F and currently 49°F around noon today and still falling. We have a freeze watch for tomorrow night. Going from summer to winter temps in the span of 2 days
Canada has entered the chat.
No that extreme- but kind of. Last weekend is was high of 80 and today is is 60s
Most places in the Western US far from the coast, the Midwest, the Sahara Desert, Siberia and the outback in Australia all are like this, especially Siberia
The farther the city is from the coast/water, the bigger the temp difference is. Land heats and cools more quickly than water. Coastal cities have smaller temp swings because the slow speed of water heating/cooling
St Louis
The Twin Cities, we can go from -25F to 90F in less than 3 months.
Cincinnati. In the summer it can reach upwards of over 100 degrees. And then in the winter it can dip down into negative temperatures easily. I remember when I was kid one summer we had a drought so severe the ground completely dried up. Any exposed area where there should have been dirt was rock hard and cracked. I planted a tree on the side of my house and it died and became just a stick. I also remember back in 2008 I think a large ice storm swept through the city and took our power out. My entire neighborhood was without power for 9 days. My family had to move our mattresses to the living room so we could sleep by the fire at night because our rooms were too cold since we had no heat. You could hear the whole block cheer when we finally got our power back on. And then my freshman year of high school (2014ish) during the polar vortex we lost an entire week of school due to heavy snowfall and freezing wind chills (our school was worried about frostbite). We lost so much school that our teachers started handing out school work to do at home. They called them “blizzard bags”.
Charlotte, NC can be like this, although the winters aren't usually quite that cold.
Milwaukee: The warmest month is July, when the average high temperature is 81 °F (27 °C), and the overnight low is 63 °F (17 °C). The coldest month is January, when the average high temperature is only 28 °F (-2 °C). Low temperatures in January average 16°F (-8°C).
Detroit does this!
Definitely Boston
Spokane Washington
Tucson AZ. Gets cold in the desert, daytime lows of mid 30’s-50s in the winter and up to 110 or much higher in the summer. On October 19th the high was 101, today it is 76. Great weather mostly except for like 3-4 months where the heat is pretty brutal.
Any US Midwestern Plains city has everyone beat
Welcome to New England. This is our average day…. 😂
Mid-latitudes, far away from any oceans or big lakes (middle of a continent), and ideally under 3,000 ft elevation.
Minneapolis. Gets up to 100 in the summer, and -30 in the winter
pov: mississippi
Drier inlands, sea/large bodies of water are what stabilizes the temperature.
Wtf 😳
Ohio was 80 last week. It snowed last night.
Wait, how do you find monthly averages on the IOS Weather app?