Bobzilla wrote: Does 104 high in the summer to -22 in the winter count for "largest temp swings in the nation?"
That's got to be close. This is getting dangerously close to my part of Canuckistan weather:
"The lowest temperature in Environment Canada's books was −37.8 °C (−36 °F) on January 15, 1957, and the highest temperature was 37.6 °C (100 °F) on August 1, 1975, both at Dorval International Airport"
Heck, it was -28 F and +46 F within a 72 hr window last week, and most of that time the wind was between 25 and 60 mph.
Yeah, I've seen temp swings of about 75 degrees in, maybe 48 hours? Less quite possibly.
Yesterday at 5:00pm temp was 50, today at 5:00pm temp was 16 and there was 7" of snow on the ground. I had to go out for a while this morning at 9am when there was only 1" of snow but nothing had been done to the roads. Even though I grew up driving in snow country and have been driving for 54 years, I decided that I was going home and staying there.
It's snowing? Where? It was 65 today. Good outside work weather. We had a campfire and roasted weenies last night. Sometimes I miss winter, sometimes it's OK.
Maryland is like an abandoned wasteland right now. I got off work and the roads were empty. I don't mind much. I got to have fun since no one else's safety was around for a few miles.
It was 65 yesterday. It is now 29 and snowing.
Yeeehaaa!
Bought wife new car and spent $1000 on new snow tires.
It's been 44deg ever since. 
In reply to Hungary Bill:
Spending $280 on snows doesn't have the same effect.
woke up this morning to no water. Last night some critter clawed through the door to my crawlspace and with the water pipe right there, froze it solid. 10 minutes with a portable heater got it working again, but not a good way to start the day.
and it is -cold- out there. 10 degrees this morning!
-2 this morning. Sucks.been looking at private islands some place warm.
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/katafanga-island This looks nice.
44 earlier today. I should have worn socks with my sandals 
I go outside in -25°, in a t-shirt. That ain't nothin. I never go to the store when it snows. I drive on ice with summer tires. Everyone besides me is an idiot.
Zero degrees here when I woke up, hasn't gotten appreciably better. Cold water pipe to the kitchen sink (which is on an outside wall) is frozen, again. Warned SWMBO to be careful using that sink since the last time this happened the DRAIN also froze in the wall. Almost got creamed by a Jeep in the way in to work when it was pretty close behind me coming up to a stop sign and they didn't see that the road was iced over. Hoping that my club practice tonight will be cancelled so I can just hit the grocery store (good thing SWMBO is doing a dairy/wheat/sugar-free diet so I don't need to worry about milk or bread :P) and go home and relax and not have to go back out in the cold.
ScreaminE wrote: I go outside in -25°, in a t-shirt. That ain't nothin. I never go to the store when it snows. I drive on ice with summer tires. Everyone besides me is an idiot.
It was only -5F here but quite windy this AM. I was inspired by your manliness so I walked the 80ft to the mailbox in shorts and a t-shirt to get the paper. Upon my return I was able to cut glass with my nipples.
The cat peed in the litterbox this morning, for only the 3rd or 4th time in his lifetime.
He's almost 16 years old.
fanfoy wrote:Bobzilla wrote: Does 104 high in the summer to -22 in the winter count for "largest temp swings in the nation?"That's got to be close. This is getting dangerously close to my part of Canuckistan weather: "The lowest temperature in Environment Canada's books was −37.8 °C (−36 °F) on January 15, 1957, and the highest temperature was 37.6 °C (100 °F) on August 1, 1975, both at Dorval International Airport"
I didn't know we were talking about extremes. We've have -35F and 109F as records in Indy. Two weeks ago we went from -22 on Monday to 44 on Thurs. I am really sick of winter.
EDIT: According to this website: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0113527.html our extreme high temp was 116F in 1936 and low was -38 in 1994. That's 154 variance.
I'm pretty sure I've seen more than 100F in the Dorval area during a record-setting heat wave a couple of years ago. The fact that it's referred to as Dorval indicates that the source is dated, that airport was renamed 10 years ago. Maybe it's the biggest swing in one place but those Indy records sound more plausible for somewhere like Ottawa.
Canadian extremes overall are a lot bigger than that. The record low (in the Yukon) is -81F and the high is 113F.
I'm in FL and recently bought a set of Winterforce tires to be prepared...for rallycrossing!
For what it's worth, I wasn't talking about records. Just average highs vs average lows. But all that said, I'm from the Central Coast of California. We don't do records. ~low 80's in summer (low humidity) and low 50's in winter (avg highs). And I spent four years on Oahu: ~mid-high 80's in summer and mid 70's in winter. Clockwork. I'm soft as hell.
I showed my kids how to scrape frost off a windshield with my library card this morning. They were pretty impressed.
Damn it was 56 today in Florida, I didn't even put the top down.
Think of the children
-3 here currently. Wind chill is -20. yay. Time to move to Hawaii.
ScreaminE wrote: I go outside in -25°, in a t-shirt. That ain't nothin. I never go to the store when it snows. I drive on ice with summer tires. Everyone besides me is an idiot.
You're this guy, aren't you?
we got flurries in central ms!
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