I’m in Calgary and I remember chatting with some folks in Denver a few winters back. We were talking weather and they said “oh its super cold here right now, just hit -10 f (-23 c)” and I was like “yeah cold here too, just hit -65 with wind chill.” They asked me if I meant celcius or Fahrenheit and I just said “honestly at this point it doesn’t matter.”
My first apartment in Calgary had an issue with the fire alarm going off in very cold nights since it was an old style that used (in part not the whole system) a piece of metal though the wall and went off when the difference between the inside and out side was to much (IE on fire inside). The issue was that when you keep the inside at +20C and the outside is -45C the alarm goes off and everyone has to go stand outside and wait for the all clear.
That being said I will take a dry Alberta winter over a damp one any day. -40 is fine with me (not if I stand outside too long and die though). Really once you are at -20 its not much different, just die/get frost bite faster.
There is a place in Saskatchewan that had +50c and -50C in one year. Wild that people live there, +50C is way too hot for me.
Too hot even
Nice catch
No break it down into 5 year blocks showing sets of stations added in each block.
I took the family on a road trip through South Dakota this summer. For some reason in my mind, I thought South Dakota is north - and north is cold. Jesus fucking Christ was I wrong. It was unbearably hot. We tried going outside in the Badlands and had to get back in the car after like 5 minutes. Fuck that place and it’s crazy heat.
this summer has been unlike others. you might have done the exact same thing in half the country.
when i was a kid (seems like eons ago) we vacationed there a lot, in north and south dakota (and a little mt and wy). mom and me loved the badlands. the terrain and features, wildlife, the night sky… i don’t remember it ever being “too hot” to be outside. we camped, in a tent or popup; so outside is where we were basically all the time.
Wait…
-40c == -40f
Really?
Is that true on a global level?
Where I live in Sweden I have not seen quite that spread of temperatures yet. But not far off… I have seen -43C and +35C in the same area.
Beautiful demonstration of continentality
Those poor bastards probably think its normal.
I grew up in the center of the red blob. Highest temp I remember is 112F and lowest is -52F. Those aren’t even records. Wind is brutal as well.
wait it isnt?
America and Canada need to get that rash looked at.
Note to self: Don’t live there.
Don’t worry it’s a dry cold
And a humid heat
The terrifying part is that adjacent to the Great Lakes was projected to be ground zero for incoming climate change refugees. Now it’s looking like they’ll be dried up
Wouldn’t west coastal be better? Water to help regulate temperature, and you don’t get the hurricane effects of the eastern coast
Oceans in Southern California not warm enough to sustain hurricanes yet, on path to. Warming ocean will also raise humidity and have less of a cooling effect.
It’s pretty insane. Need to be prepared for any kind of weather. We had a 121F swing this year in Minneapolis. It was -21F on January 23, 2026, and 100F on July 27, 2026.
The largest recorded temperature change in one place over a 24-hour period occurred on January 15, 1972 in Loma, Montana, when the temperature rose from −54 to 49 °F (−47.8 to 9.4 °C).
Just a wild place
Can confirm. Was in Belgrade MT one day in April where it went from -19F to 43F over the day, and it wasn’t abnormal at all.
That is absolutely ridiculous.
I live in Canada in one of those places. Once the area I live in was on the news because it was colder than Mars that day lol.
Gonna be a desert soon, all the over farming
cries in Minnesotan
How old is this map? It was -40F in Southern Michigan in 2015 or 2016 and it’s definitely been 104F in the same place in recent years.
Yeah, I know my home has seen both those temps in my lifetime, but is not on the map.
Maybe it’s only in the same year?
