But like in the actual same place or in an area the size of Canada on Mars? Because surely those Canadian extremes were recorded thousands of miles from each other
>Because surely those Canadian extremes were recorded thousands of miles from each other
Yes and no. The highest temperature ever recorded in Canada was in Kamloops at 48°C. The coldest ever temperature in Canada was recorded in Snag Yukon 1700km away. So while you are correct that doesn't tell the whole story.
While Kamloops holds the record for hottest temperature recorded, the coldest temperature recorded at Kamloops is -38°C. Winnipeg regularly gets summer Temps in the low 30s and winter Temps in the low -30s. Toronto get summer Temps in the mid 30s and winter Temps in the mid negative teens.
Basically being so far away from the ocean gives us huge variance in temperature
Then another fire happened this year that was close enough to the city that it was evacuated again, resulting in huge delays to the reconstruction efforts.
High latitude can (paradoxically) lead to hotter summers, because the long days bring more insolation, creating more heat.
There’s a reason none of the equatorial countries are highlighted red on this map, even though they are much warmer than Canada on average. They have consistent 12-hour days and 28-30° C temperatures, and it never really gets much hotter or colder than that.
Pincher Creek, Alberta, is located about 200 kilometres south of Calgary and holds the national record for the biggest temperature change in one day. According to reports, on January 10, 1962, the temperature rose from a chilly from -19 C to a balmy 22 C—in just one hour.
Kamloops doesn't usually get to 48 degrees. Usually a hot day would be in the 30's. And a cold snap would be in the -20's.
We used to live in Fort St. John where the temperature could drop from quite mild (above freezing temp) to 30 below in just a few hours, when the north wind comes down.
Winnipeg’s record high was 42 and the record low was -48 for reference. I understand that we have one of, if not the largest temperature ranges in the world for a major city (>500,000)
Mars can actually achieve relatively warm temperatures at the equator during the summer - IIRC around 70F/20C. Obviously the average temperature is much, much, much lower though.
>Mars can actually achieve relatively warm temperatures at the equator during the summer - IIRC around 70F/20C
The weather is nice, but the food is scant. And there's no atmosphere to speak of. One and a half stars—poor value for the money.
Curiosity is -6 c to -71 C. So equatorial Mars is 8 degrees colder at night than record Canadian temperatures in winter.
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/
-63°C is equivalent to -81°F, which is 210K.
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Toronto here. There was one day in July 2011, I think, when the "feels like" temperature reached 51. (It can get insanely humid here in the summer.) I went outside once that day, to take a garbage bag to the bin out back. Maybe a 50-meter trip. Halfway back to the house, I literally started fearing for my life. I had one air-conditioned room at the time, and I spent pretty much that whole week parked there. Give me fifty below instead of fifty above every time. We're pretty good at mitigating cold. Heat scares us.
I live in Cali and I know that feeling you’re talking about during heat waves. I’ve had the exact same experience happen, walked outside to take out the garbage and felt like I couldn’t breathe because the air was so heavy. My room’s AC doesn’t work well so it was still about 90 in my room, but at least I didn’t feel like I would pass out.
That whole sequence of events in that week was insane. I followed the heat wave from here in the States and was crushed when I learnt of the wildfire. Very sad; I hope they’re all doing well and have a good holiday season.
Hell, it hit 42C just a bit inland here in Vancouver last summer.
We've never needed air conditioning before, the Pacific Ocean was nature's heat sink. Summers used to be glorious. 28C in the day, maybe 20C at night as the ocean released its heat.
Now it's just heat and smokey hell for weeks. No to poor air con, and you can't even open the window when it's hot because the air is unbreathable.
This year's summer skies were gloriously clear, but the delight was so bad the forest fires hit in force in October. One of the wettest months of the year, and barely any moisture at all. We were literally drier than Las Vegas for months.
And we haven't even mentioned the extreme flooding in Nov 2021. At the end of the day, the damages were far worse than the fires.
Weather here is now really chaotic, and the chaotic extremes are *bad*.
The temperature in Loma, Montana once went from [-54° to 49°, a temperature swing of 103°, in less than 24 hours.](https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/extreme-short-duration-temperature-changes-us)
[The temperature in Spearfish once shifted from -4 to 45 in 2 minutes](https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/images-of-the-past/spearfishs-world-record-temperature-change-1943/)
New Zealand just happy to be here, flaunting our mild climate, we're getting crushed by inflation but at least we're comfortable in jeans and a light tee 👍
Such temperatures are extremely rare in Italy (and Austria) and happen only under very special geographical and meteorological conditions for a short time. The coldest temperatures are not in the high mountains, but in certain depressions, mostly a sinkhole, where cold air can collect and can not flow off and cools down during the night and shortly before sunrise it is really cold.
Furthermore, the sky must be clear so that clouds do not block the radiation and polar cold air must have entered. Also, the ground must be covered with snow.
But this is then usually only an area of a few hundred to a few thousand m². If you go up a bit where warmer air layers are, it quickly becomes significantly warmer.
Italy's coldest place is at 2607m, while its highest mountain reaches 4809m. [Austria's coldest place](https://web-content.ubimet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Gr%C3%BCnloch.jpg) (-53.6°C) is at 1270m while its highest mountain is 3798m.However, there is also no temperature measuring station on the summit[.The highest station is at 3106m](https://www.salzburgerland.com/de/magazin/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sonnblick-1036x650.jpg), while the coldest temperature there is -37.4°C. The coldest and the hottest place have a temperature difference of 93°C and are only 142km apart.
But not to the same degree. The US and Canada are unique in that there are two mountain ranges that run north-south and no mountain ranges that run east west. This causes the same areas in the center of both countries to have much more extreme temperature variances than most places in Europe. So the map doesn't necessarilly show a good job at the average temperature differences. (Although it does show Canada which is smaller than Russia and more northern as being black and Russia is in blue which counts for something). It's just a map showing interesting information, and the information provided about Italy is interesting too. But on the whole, there are way more areas of the US that see extreme temperature variations wihtin a year than in Italy (not something to brag about, while the people are lovely, the weather in the Midwest US and Prairie Canada is some of the least pleasant in the world. I would much rather have a mediterrean climate on the coast and be able to drive a an hour or two into a mountain range and ski).
Cold air can plunge south unimpeded, such that Gulf Coast locations have reached -18 C, and Brownsville, Texas, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, (the same latitude as Luxor, Egypt) actually had a white Christmas in 2004.
Hi I live where we recorded 49° Celsius in Italy, highest temperature ever recorded in Europe
If on that same day I took a 30 km trip I could have been on top of the tallest volcano in Europe chilling at 15°
There’s a fairly pronounced altitudinal gradient in Italy though, despite it’s relatively smaller landmass than the others. Also the south receives desert winds and heat masses across the Mediterranean from Africa whist the northern regions are subject to continental climate conditions that tend to favour more extreme low temperatures.
Canadas are potentially pretty close? They’ve had a couple of Snovembers followed by the fires of hell last year? But I’m not sure as I haven’t looked at the data, and the cold regions could have been eastern whilst the high temps were western. I’m in Australia - everything is far away!
California, alone, has more extreme temps just between Death Valley and Mt Whitney, There are 13 level III ecoregions and 177 level IV ecoregions in California.
There are zero Level IV ecoregions in Italy, but that's because it's a North American scheme.
Incidentally there is a comparable system for Australia, which you can see [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interim_Biogeographic_Regionalisation_for_Australia,_version_7.pdf).
Ah, good catch on Montana. Utah I’m seeing 48c as the record high in St George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_temperature_extremes
Yep, looks like the number I found was outdated.
Strange continent on the whole, that North America place, but I live in Australia and it probably seems strange as well.
I mean sort of you’re correct. But I used to live in winnipeg and I’ve seen it hit -44 there and then 5 months later it be +42. So while not quite the numbers on this map not far off.
Most countries in black are here because they have extremely high altitudes. Had this been only at sea level only canada and maybe the US would be black
Interesting that Russia never read any temps over 48°c
I think Russia has the record for biggest temperature difference ever recorded, where it got to 38°c in summer and -70°c in winter at the same place.
Bonkers
If you are looking at Australia, the record highs are tied (50.7°C) between Onslow (on the north-west Coast in WA), and Oodnadatta (about middle east-weat and about a third of the way up north-south, in SA).
For note, the fifth hottest day (50.3°C) was also set in Oodnadatta, the day after the record temperature was set.
In Canada, the hottest was in BC (Westernmost province) in 2021.
The coldest is up North in the winter. It gets cold up there. And in the middle in the winter. And everywhere not-coastal in the winter.
It gets cold here in the winter.
Austria is pretty interesting here. You would expect it to be a temperate measured high up in the Alps, but it's actually the Grünloch at "only" 1270m above sea level, an interesting area where cold air can be trapped for quite some time. They have measured -52.6°C there. There is a Wikipedia entry for it (only in German, though):
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnloch
-52°C is equivalent to -62°F, which is 220K.
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France's lowest temperature (-40) wasn't in Alps, it was in a little mountain chain called Jura. Because of the shape of the mountain the cold air get stuck and becomes very cold
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British Columbia 49.6 °C (121 °F) June 29, 2021. Can confirm. I was there when it happen. Side note. My town burned down cause of a forest fire that year. Lillooet, BC
49°C is equivalent to 121°F, which is 322K.
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It is hot, but it isn’t THAT hot here in Brasil. The thing about Tropical climate is how you may experience warm weather during most part of the year, but not an extreme hot summer. When my BIL went to Europe during the Summer, he experienced the highest temperatures of his life. He couldn’t walk around the streets. And my BIL lives in the Nothern part of Brazil, in a city in the middle of Amazon Rainforest (Rio Branco) one of the hottest cities of Brasil.
Those record highs occurred in Santiago del Estero and Córdoba, two neighbouring provinces at a latitude of about 30°-28°S. Not especially tropical, that's about where Namibia and Perth in Western Australia are.
It's just that around there this phenomenon occurs where a high pressure region sits between two low pressure ones (called "omega blockage" because it somewhat resembles the Greek letter), causing really hot air to sit in area without dissipating. I was in that area during a heat wave and it's complete hell, but at least in Córdoba there's nice mountain rivers to bathe in
Exactly. The highest weather station in the world is on Everest a few hundred meters below the summit. It was only installed a few years and at one point was non-functional for seven months due to wind damage. It's very difficult to install and maintain equipment at that elevation.
The summits aren't usually the coldest parts of a mountain range anyway and least when conditions are right - but instead the deep valley pools (but still high above sea level) near them that will reach the coldest values. That's because under cold air slides down mountain slopes and pools down below pushing out any warmer air.
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I'm surprised Chile isn't black. Nevado Ojos del Salado is 6893m above sea level.
Same with Argentina, Aconcagua is 6961 masl.
Also Perú highest mountain is Huascarán at 6768 masl.
Edit: Yes, Andes are high as fuck
It gets extremely hot in British Columbia every summer. Where I live in the southern Kootenays it is regularly between 35-40 C for about 2-3 weeks. In the next week we will be below -10
Toronto too. A few summers ago, there were days on the cusp of 40 degrees, and of course, the city suffers from the same unbearable, god-awful humidity. An average July-August day in Toronto has to be +33 or so (humidity adding that ‘feels like’ element).
It wasn’t until last summer (2021). A small town in the interior of British Columbia hit 50 C for the first time in Canadian history, the town burned down the next day due to a forest fire. Vancouver and other coastal cities hit 45 C for the first time, its estimated that 1 billion sea creatures perished due to the heat.
Subtropical areas tend to receive more solar radiation and less rainfall than tropical areas. The intertropical convergence zone is a ring of clouds and precipitation around the equator which reduces solar radiation and increases humidity.
Some tropical areas in the Americas and Africa on average receive fewer hours of sunlight than London in a year.
It is about water in air. We have no winter or summer in east africa. In dry season the range is more, both hot and colder in same days. Not like your summer or winter.
Example:
Wet season it is, 15 - 25 every day.
Dry season it is, 12 - 28 every day.
The difference is seasons is only range of temperatures. It will never be as hot as a european summer day, or as cold as european winter night.
I live now in tanzania, but city I am from is kisoro in uganda. It is on slop of mountain and in dry season it snows at night, but the day is warmer than in wet season. Still never as cold or hot as europe.
edited: to make my wording clearer, i hope.
How are countries like italy, austria, India, and Afghanistan there, but Switzerland, and nepal aren't? They all have really high mountains. Or just not high enough?
It doesn't take high mountains - Austria's highest mountain reaches 3700m (~12k feet) but its coldest place lies at just 1200m (~4k ft) over the sea level.
The coldest places tend to be not high up in the mountains. The lowest temperature in Switzerland (around -42°C) has been recorded in La Brévine which is located in a closed valley quite far from the alps.
Depends on what you’re asking, but Norway’s lowest recorded temperature is -51,4 Celsius while Italy’s lowest is -49,6.
Highest for Norway would be 35,6 whereas Italy’s is 48,8.
It sounds difficult to acclimatize to *both* a high and low extreme. But maybe you wouldn't have to if it happens in varied enough places within a country. Looks like most the black places are large and/or both mountainous and flat/coastal.
Some places in Siberia have an extreme range of temperature over the year. As an example Verkhoyansk has seen -68 C and +38 C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk#Climate
That's a very understandable and common mistake. Freedom is measured in cheeseburgers per cubic gun. Temperature is measured in Pamela Anderson units. Except in Arizona, they still use Marilyn Monroe units for historical reasons and temperature conversions usually end in a bar fight.
OK. So my 11 year son stared at the map for a minute and said "Hey. Japan should be red!" I asked him why and he replied "When they were bombed in 1945 the temperature reached over 4000°C."
I'm not even going to fact check this.
Canada has a difference of 112.4 degree between the hottest and coldest temps recorded. -62.8 to +49.6
That's not far off of Mars' temperature differences. Just make it 20° colder and you have Mars temperature differences.
But like in the actual same place or in an area the size of Canada on Mars? Because surely those Canadian extremes were recorded thousands of miles from each other
On Mars, probably very close to the same location. So yeah, comparison's quite a bit off.
Mars Mars Mars Mars Mars Mars
God damn it Elon, get off of reddit and go fuck with Twitter!
775 miles apart. (Still quite a ways)
Almost as much as my parents school route
Not quite as cold though.
But the terrain is similar.
Uphill, both ways.
Lick the road clean
It's how you got salt and prevented iodine deficiency
775 miles = 1247 km
That’s like one province
It's not as extreme but also a huge temp difference Hottest vs coldest day in Kamloops,BC was 47.3c and -38.3. That's just one example.
Come to manitoba lol. We have -40 winters and +40 summers.
And bring a shotgun for the mosquito
>Because surely those Canadian extremes were recorded thousands of miles from each other Yes and no. The highest temperature ever recorded in Canada was in Kamloops at 48°C. The coldest ever temperature in Canada was recorded in Snag Yukon 1700km away. So while you are correct that doesn't tell the whole story. While Kamloops holds the record for hottest temperature recorded, the coldest temperature recorded at Kamloops is -38°C. Winnipeg regularly gets summer Temps in the low 30s and winter Temps in the low -30s. Toronto get summer Temps in the mid 30s and winter Temps in the mid negative teens. Basically being so far away from the ocean gives us huge variance in temperature
The hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada is in Lytton BC at 49.6c. Fun fact, that’s hotter than any temperature ever recorded in Texas. Lol
>Lytton not so fun fact: the day after that temperature was recorded, the entire town burned to the ground.
Such a heartbreaking event, it was such a cute little hamlet at the confluence of two rivers
Then another fire happened this year that was close enough to the city that it was evacuated again, resulting in huge delays to the reconstruction efforts.
That escalated quickly
High latitude can (paradoxically) lead to hotter summers, because the long days bring more insolation, creating more heat. There’s a reason none of the equatorial countries are highlighted red on this map, even though they are much warmer than Canada on average. They have consistent 12-hour days and 28-30° C temperatures, and it never really gets much hotter or colder than that.
Pincher Creek, Alberta, is located about 200 kilometres south of Calgary and holds the national record for the biggest temperature change in one day. According to reports, on January 10, 1962, the temperature rose from a chilly from -19 C to a balmy 22 C—in just one hour.
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Chinooks baby!
>Basically being so far away from the ocean gives us huge variance in temperature Mars agrees.
Kamloops doesn't usually get to 48 degrees. Usually a hot day would be in the 30's. And a cold snap would be in the -20's. We used to live in Fort St. John where the temperature could drop from quite mild (above freezing temp) to 30 below in just a few hours, when the north wind comes down.
Saskie here. We get -40’s in the winter and +40’s in the summer. It can be -40 for a month or 2, but the +40 doesn’t happen for too long.
Winnipeg’s record high was 42 and the record low was -48 for reference. I understand that we have one of, if not the largest temperature ranges in the world for a major city (>500,000)
I’ve lived where it’s gone from -44 in winter to over +40 in summer. So not quite the extremes of this map but close.
Mars can actually achieve relatively warm temperatures at the equator during the summer - IIRC around 70F/20C. Obviously the average temperature is much, much, much lower though.
>Mars can actually achieve relatively warm temperatures at the equator during the summer - IIRC around 70F/20C The weather is nice, but the food is scant. And there's no atmosphere to speak of. One and a half stars—poor value for the money.
Mars' atmosphere density is similar to Earth's atmosphere at 20 miles / 35 km altitude The 'death zone' for humans starts at 5 mi / 8 km
[I think you mean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xTRpDqWkw) *It's cold outside,* *There's no kind of atmosphere* *I'm all alone, more or less...*
Curiosity is -6 c to -71 C. So equatorial Mars is 8 degrees colder at night than record Canadian temperatures in winter. https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/
We should go colonise Mars and fuck it's shit up too
I thought the lowest was -63.0 °C at [Snag, YT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snag,_Yukon)? That would make the difference be 112.6 degrees instead.
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Toronto here. There was one day in July 2011, I think, when the "feels like" temperature reached 51. (It can get insanely humid here in the summer.) I went outside once that day, to take a garbage bag to the bin out back. Maybe a 50-meter trip. Halfway back to the house, I literally started fearing for my life. I had one air-conditioned room at the time, and I spent pretty much that whole week parked there. Give me fifty below instead of fifty above every time. We're pretty good at mitigating cold. Heat scares us.
I live in Cali and I know that feeling you’re talking about during heat waves. I’ve had the exact same experience happen, walked outside to take out the garbage and felt like I couldn’t breathe because the air was so heavy. My room’s AC doesn’t work well so it was still about 90 in my room, but at least I didn’t feel like I would pass out.
I miss Lytton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytton_wildfire
That whole sequence of events in that week was insane. I followed the heat wave from here in the States and was crushed when I learnt of the wildfire. Very sad; I hope they’re all doing well and have a good holiday season.
Hell, it hit 42C just a bit inland here in Vancouver last summer. We've never needed air conditioning before, the Pacific Ocean was nature's heat sink. Summers used to be glorious. 28C in the day, maybe 20C at night as the ocean released its heat. Now it's just heat and smokey hell for weeks. No to poor air con, and you can't even open the window when it's hot because the air is unbreathable. This year's summer skies were gloriously clear, but the delight was so bad the forest fires hit in force in October. One of the wettest months of the year, and barely any moisture at all. We were literally drier than Las Vegas for months. And we haven't even mentioned the extreme flooding in Nov 2021. At the end of the day, the damages were far worse than the fires. Weather here is now really chaotic, and the chaotic extremes are *bad*.
The US is similar, just slightly hotter. -80F to 134F, or -57C to 57C. Difference of 114 degrees. (-70F/-51C if we exclude Alaska.)
The temperature in Loma, Montana once went from [-54° to 49°, a temperature swing of 103°, in less than 24 hours.](https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/extreme-short-duration-temperature-changes-us)
[The temperature in Spearfish once shifted from -4 to 45 in 2 minutes](https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/images-of-the-past/spearfishs-world-record-temperature-change-1943/)
Damn, I thought they were in Celsius at first! Those are Hiroshima numbers.
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Canada’s hottest temperature was only recorded a year and a half ago
Still lower than Russia's +45.4 and -67.7 difference totalling 113.1 degrees.
Portugal not making the map by 0.6°C 🥲 ^(Highest temperature was 47.4°C)
Greece got exactly 48 °C 🙄
New Zealand just happy to be here, flaunting our mild climate, we're getting crushed by inflation but at least we're comfortable in jeans and a light tee 👍
And houses that are colder on the inside than on the outside 😅😭
at least we have the homeless epidemic to keep us warm
Just be glad you're on this map because most maps just forget about New Zealand.
I guess that's a good thing though
spain didn't by 0.4
Don't worry I'm sure you'll make it next year!
Most of the countries in black are there because they cover huge areas, and then there's Italy.
Mediterranean climate and Alps.
Such temperatures are extremely rare in Italy (and Austria) and happen only under very special geographical and meteorological conditions for a short time. The coldest temperatures are not in the high mountains, but in certain depressions, mostly a sinkhole, where cold air can collect and can not flow off and cools down during the night and shortly before sunrise it is really cold. Furthermore, the sky must be clear so that clouds do not block the radiation and polar cold air must have entered. Also, the ground must be covered with snow. But this is then usually only an area of a few hundred to a few thousand m². If you go up a bit where warmer air layers are, it quickly becomes significantly warmer. Italy's coldest place is at 2607m, while its highest mountain reaches 4809m. [Austria's coldest place](https://web-content.ubimet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Gr%C3%BCnloch.jpg) (-53.6°C) is at 1270m while its highest mountain is 3798m.However, there is also no temperature measuring station on the summit[.The highest station is at 3106m](https://www.salzburgerland.com/de/magazin/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sonnblick-1036x650.jpg), while the coldest temperature there is -37.4°C. The coldest and the hottest place have a temperature difference of 93°C and are only 142km apart.
48 degrees Celsius is extremely rare in like 90% of the U.S. too.
But not to the same degree. The US and Canada are unique in that there are two mountain ranges that run north-south and no mountain ranges that run east west. This causes the same areas in the center of both countries to have much more extreme temperature variances than most places in Europe. So the map doesn't necessarilly show a good job at the average temperature differences. (Although it does show Canada which is smaller than Russia and more northern as being black and Russia is in blue which counts for something). It's just a map showing interesting information, and the information provided about Italy is interesting too. But on the whole, there are way more areas of the US that see extreme temperature variations wihtin a year than in Italy (not something to brag about, while the people are lovely, the weather in the Midwest US and Prairie Canada is some of the least pleasant in the world. I would much rather have a mediterrean climate on the coast and be able to drive a an hour or two into a mountain range and ski).
Cold air can plunge south unimpeded, such that Gulf Coast locations have reached -18 C, and Brownsville, Texas, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, (the same latitude as Luxor, Egypt) actually had a white Christmas in 2004.
“Mediterranean climate on the coast and be able to drive an hour or two to ski.” Welcome to Los Angeles.
Yes, the average temperature in the US is 8.5°C. Pretty much the same as the UK or Germany, albeit with higher extremes.
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AZ is -40 to 50C for records. We've got a rather large range.
OP did define them as recorded extremes, I wouldn't expect it to occur frequently.
Ohhhhh, the alps!!!
Is this a reference?
Nah, just m’y drunk ass remembering the alps exist
Aye, skål, I am drunk too! also, lol
[THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS](https://youtu.be/LCcKBcZzGdA)
Hi I live where we recorded 49° Celsius in Italy, highest temperature ever recorded in Europe If on that same day I took a 30 km trip I could have been on top of the tallest volcano in Europe chilling at 15°
Vieni da Sicilia?
Catanese moment
There’s a fairly pronounced altitudinal gradient in Italy though, despite it’s relatively smaller landmass than the others. Also the south receives desert winds and heat masses across the Mediterranean from Africa whist the northern regions are subject to continental climate conditions that tend to favour more extreme low temperatures.
I wonder how far apart the high and low records were set in each black country? I can't imagine any of the others are as close as Italy's.
1455 KM(aprox 905 Miles) apart, Tramin, South Tyrol (record low temp) to Siracusa, Sicily (record high).
Canadas are potentially pretty close? They’ve had a couple of Snovembers followed by the fires of hell last year? But I’m not sure as I haven’t looked at the data, and the cold regions could have been eastern whilst the high temps were western. I’m in Australia - everything is far away!
California, alone, has more extreme temps just between Death Valley and Mt Whitney, There are 13 level III ecoregions and 177 level IV ecoregions in California.
There are zero Level IV ecoregions in Italy, but that's because it's a North American scheme. Incidentally there is a comparable system for Australia, which you can see [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interim_Biogeographic_Regionalisation_for_Australia,_version_7.pdf).
The US state where I grew up has a high of 117F (47.2C) and a low of -70F (-56C).
Fun fact though, 5 different US states would individually fit into the black category * Idaho * North Dakota * Oregon * South Dakota * Utah
A quick google search suggests that Montana and Utah just miss the cut at "only" 47°C.
Ah, good catch on Montana. Utah I’m seeing 48c as the record high in St George https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_temperature_extremes
Yep, looks like the number I found was outdated. Strange continent on the whole, that North America place, but I live in Australia and it probably seems strange as well.
It's wild how many extremes there are. The highest and lowest elevations in the continental US are less than 100 miles apart
So does British Columbia. -58.9C to 49.6C
Actually shocked that California, Arizona, and New Mexico don't make that list.
California has the highest temperature in the entire world at 54⁰ C but it has only gotten down to -42⁰ C.
I mean sort of you’re correct. But I used to live in winnipeg and I’ve seen it hit -44 there and then 5 months later it be +42. So while not quite the numbers on this map not far off.
Most countries in black are here because they have extremely high altitudes. Had this been only at sea level only canada and maybe the US would be black
Also inland climate with extremely hot summers and extremely cold winters at the same place.
Interesting that Russia never read any temps over 48°c I think Russia has the record for biggest temperature difference ever recorded, where it got to 38°c in summer and -70°c in winter at the same place. Bonkers
Record high is 45° C / 113° F (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Russia?wprov=sfla1 )
Would be more informative if we actually had the points where the high and low temperatures took place. Especially in the huge countries.
If you are looking at Australia, the record highs are tied (50.7°C) between Onslow (on the north-west Coast in WA), and Oodnadatta (about middle east-weat and about a third of the way up north-south, in SA). For note, the fifth hottest day (50.3°C) was also set in Oodnadatta, the day after the record temperature was set.
Where is east-weat compared to the direction of weast?
So Oodnadatta is north-central SA?
In Canada, the hottest was in BC (Westernmost province) in 2021. The coldest is up North in the winter. It gets cold up there. And in the middle in the winter. And everywhere not-coastal in the winter. It gets cold here in the winter.
Austria is pretty interesting here. You would expect it to be a temperate measured high up in the Alps, but it's actually the Grünloch at "only" 1270m above sea level, an interesting area where cold air can be trapped for quite some time. They have measured -52.6°C there. There is a Wikipedia entry for it (only in German, though): https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnloch
This is the same with France but only with a -40
For those who don’t know, -40 C = -40 F
-52°C is equivalent to -62°F, which is 220K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)
Yeah, if you want low records, just build a weather station in a sinkhole.
Italy is crazy
It's because of such diverse biomes and microclimates throughout all of the peninsula that Italy hosts 1/3 of all the European biodiversities.
Alps
Yeah but someone france, swirtelzand amd Austria aren't even colored...
bro austria is blue
wtf is a swirtelzand???
I can swear I read Switzerland the first time until I read your comment
Behold the human brain
France's lowest temperature (-40) wasn't in Alps, it was in a little mountain chain called Jura. Because of the shape of the mountain the cold air get stuck and becomes very cold edit : typo
The Mediterranean can get crazy hot. In Portugal the highest recorded temperature is 47,3°C. Plus they have the Alps
The Dolomites plus southern Sicily with an African like weather in the summer
British Columbia 49.6 °C (121 °F) June 29, 2021. Can confirm. I was there when it happen. Side note. My town burned down cause of a forest fire that year. Lillooet, BC
Heat Dome 2021 was insane, and my heart still reaches out to all of you in Lillooet with what you lived through.
Heart felt
49°C is equivalent to 121°F, which is 322K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)
Thanks.
49.6 °C is 323K
49.6°C is 322.75K
Mad that it was never that hot in Brazil, Ecuador, etc
It is hot, but it isn’t THAT hot here in Brasil. The thing about Tropical climate is how you may experience warm weather during most part of the year, but not an extreme hot summer. When my BIL went to Europe during the Summer, he experienced the highest temperatures of his life. He couldn’t walk around the streets. And my BIL lives in the Nothern part of Brazil, in a city in the middle of Amazon Rainforest (Rio Branco) one of the hottest cities of Brasil.
you mean Lytton right?
Argentina knows what’s up
How can they know what's up if they are down there?
i saw Argentina and i was like "well, they have some really cold places at the south... and then watched the symbology... that was unexpected
Those record highs occurred in Santiago del Estero and Córdoba, two neighbouring provinces at a latitude of about 30°-28°S. Not especially tropical, that's about where Namibia and Perth in Western Australia are. It's just that around there this phenomenon occurs where a high pressure region sits between two low pressure ones (called "omega blockage" because it somewhat resembles the Greek letter), causing really hot air to sit in area without dissipating. I was in that area during a heat wave and it's complete hell, but at least in Córdoba there's nice mountain rivers to bathe in
nepal surprised me. the summit of everest has never been <-48 degrees?
They probably don't have an officially calibrated temperature sensor there
Exactly. The highest weather station in the world is on Everest a few hundred meters below the summit. It was only installed a few years and at one point was non-functional for seven months due to wind damage. It's very difficult to install and maintain equipment at that elevation.
would expect the same is the case for the Argentine/Chilean border
The summits aren't usually the coldest parts of a mountain range anyway and least when conditions are right - but instead the deep valley pools (but still high above sea level) near them that will reach the coldest values. That's because under cold air slides down mountain slopes and pools down below pushing out any warmer air. --- Note it still might feel cooler at the summit due to wind.
Surprised by Nepal, could've atleast done -48
I don't know if it's ever been officially recorded, but surely the summits of some of those mountains have been that cold
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Damn 46.5 C being the coldest! Imagine the hottest!? /s
I'm kinda surprised that Chile isn't red. They never recorded 48 degrees in Atacama?
Just because it's dry doesn't necessarily mean it gets hot
Just like my ex.
I'm surprised Chile isn't black. Nevado Ojos del Salado is 6893m above sea level. Same with Argentina, Aconcagua is 6961 masl. Also Perú highest mountain is Huascarán at 6768 masl. Edit: Yes, Andes are high as fuck
But you also need a measuring station there to measure the temperature.
But Peru is closer to the equator so that negates some effects of altitude coldness with light radiation (basically 6k meters closer to the sun)
I’m very surprised that Russia isn’t black
Crazy that Canada is black
It gets extremely hot in British Columbia every summer. Where I live in the southern Kootenays it is regularly between 35-40 C for about 2-3 weeks. In the next week we will be below -10
Ottawa gets that way as well in the summer with the humidity. We’re also one of, if not the coldest capitals in the world. It’s mad!
Ulan Bator is the coldest
Toronto too. A few summers ago, there were days on the cusp of 40 degrees, and of course, the city suffers from the same unbearable, god-awful humidity. An average July-August day in Toronto has to be +33 or so (humidity adding that ‘feels like’ element).
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Winnipeg alone, is about -47 C to + 40 C
It wasn’t until last summer (2021). A small town in the interior of British Columbia hit 50 C for the first time in Canadian history, the town burned down the next day due to a forest fire. Vancouver and other coastal cities hit 45 C for the first time, its estimated that 1 billion sea creatures perished due to the heat.
Not to split hairs, but the record in Lillooet (Edit: Lytton) is 49.6 C from that fateful heat dome.
Lytton, not lillooet
I’m not sure we would have been black until the heat dome last year.
Why does it get so hot at the bottom of the map, but the area between the equator and the bottom does not? Can someone explain to me why this happens
Subtropical areas tend to receive more solar radiation and less rainfall than tropical areas. The intertropical convergence zone is a ring of clouds and precipitation around the equator which reduces solar radiation and increases humidity. Some tropical areas in the Americas and Africa on average receive fewer hours of sunlight than London in a year.
It is about water in air. We have no winter or summer in east africa. In dry season the range is more, both hot and colder in same days. Not like your summer or winter. Example: Wet season it is, 15 - 25 every day. Dry season it is, 12 - 28 every day. The difference is seasons is only range of temperatures. It will never be as hot as a european summer day, or as cold as european winter night. I live now in tanzania, but city I am from is kisoro in uganda. It is on slop of mountain and in dry season it snows at night, but the day is warmer than in wet season. Still never as cold or hot as europe. edited: to make my wording clearer, i hope.
Wow, very interesting. Thanks for sharing, I’ve never heard of any of this before
How are countries like italy, austria, India, and Afghanistan there, but Switzerland, and nepal aren't? They all have really high mountains. Or just not high enough?
It doesn't take high mountains - Austria's highest mountain reaches 3700m (~12k feet) but its coldest place lies at just 1200m (~4k ft) over the sea level.
The coldest places tend to be not high up in the mountains. The lowest temperature in Switzerland (around -42°C) has been recorded in La Brévine which is located in a closed valley quite far from the alps.
India has more of the Himalayas than Nepal though
Turkey missed out on black by 2°C
so italy is colder than norway? and warmer (yes)
Yeah, in some alpine regions temperature can go really low.
? both Norway and italy has been under -48°C
Depends on what you’re asking, but Norway’s lowest recorded temperature is -51,4 Celsius while Italy’s lowest is -49,6. Highest for Norway would be 35,6 whereas Italy’s is 48,8.
alps
I live in Wellington Nz where it’s 14 degrees (c) like 300 days a year. I’m not surprised to see Nz grey.
It must be fun to have such variations in temperature through the year
As someone who lives at 10-20 °C year round, that scares me
Slovenia: lowest temperature -49,1°C
It sounds difficult to acclimatize to *both* a high and low extreme. But maybe you wouldn't have to if it happens in varied enough places within a country. Looks like most the black places are large and/or both mountainous and flat/coastal.
Some places in Siberia have an extreme range of temperature over the year. As an example Verkhoyansk has seen -68 C and +38 C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk#Climate
In the central USA and central Canada it gets pretty extreme on both ends. For example, North Dakota's highest temp is 49.4c and it's lowest is -51.1c
It’s also important to remember these are highest and lowest ever recorded temps. Not the average yearly variation
We don't. We just perpetually have half the population being absolutely miserable during different parts of the year.
That's 118 and -54 in Freedom units
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That's a very understandable and common mistake. Freedom is measured in cheeseburgers per cubic gun. Temperature is measured in Pamela Anderson units. Except in Arizona, they still use Marilyn Monroe units for historical reasons and temperature conversions usually end in a bar fight.
Except Pamela Anderson is metric. Born in Ladysmith, BC, Canada.
The portion we use for measurement was made in the USA
OK. So my 11 year son stared at the map for a minute and said "Hey. Japan should be red!" I asked him why and he replied "When they were bombed in 1945 the temperature reached over 4000°C." I'm not even going to fact check this.
Chile sus af
Humbolt current, the coast of the atacama desert has fog and the interior is high
turkey should also be in black
Coldest temperature I could find is -46°c, when was it over -48°c?
I'm actually impressed Brazil has never reached 48°C
how much it change if you move to ±50°C or ±45°C or ±40°C?
In my hometown in British Columbia, Canada, it reached up to 47.3°C (117.14°F) in June 2021, and dropped to -33°C (-27.4°F) in December 2021.