Highest Measured
Wind Gust:
231 miles per hour (372 kilometers
per hour) recorded at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA. |
Hottest
Location:
136° F (57.8° C) on September 13, 1922 in Al’ Aziziyah, Libya. |
Greatest Measured Annual Snowfall:
1,224.5 inches (31.1 meters) from
19 February 1971 to 8 February 1971 at Paradise, Mt. Rainier,
Washington, USA. |
Coldest Location:
-128.6° F (-89.2° C) on July 21, 1983 at Vostok Station, Antarctica. |
Greatest Temperature Change in One Day:
100° F (55.6° C). Drop from
44° F (6.7 C) to –56° F (-49° C) on January
23-24, 1916 in Browning, Montana, USA.
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Coldest Annual Average Temperature:
-72° F
(-57.8° C) at the Pole of Inaccessibility, Antarctica.
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Largest Hailstone:
2.25 pounds (1.02 kilograms) in a hailstorm on April 14, 1986 in Gopalganj district,
Bangladesh.
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Highest Annual Average Rainfall:
467.5 inches (11.87 meters) at Mawsynram, Meghalaya, India.
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Most Rapid Change in Temperature:
49° F (27° C) in two minutes,
a temperature rise from –4° F (-20° C) to
45° F (7° C) on 22 January 1943 in Spearfish, South
Dakota. This was probably due to a “chinook wind,” a warm downslope wind made famous in this quote by A. B.
Guthrie, Jr. in These Thousand Hills:
“The warm wind kept blowing . . . like a low chant
from the land or like the flurry of far wings . . . lapping
up the snow . . . until the whole body
of earth lay brown and breathing except for the topknots of buttes and, away
and away, the high float of mountains . . . Chinook . . . Promise of spring.” |
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