Crazy Weather

[Steve]

Everywhere I've lived people say how crazy the weather is there.  The recent heatwave has made me wonder what record high and low temps were in different places.  So I looked up various cities on weather.com and found some places with pretty amazing gaps between record highs and record lows.  These places have truly crazy weather.  Each has at lease 160 Fahrenheit degrees between the record high and low.  All but one are in central Alaska.

164--Chandalar Lake, Alaska:  High 90F/32C  Low -74F/-59C

162--North Pole, Alaska:  High 95F/35C  Low -67F/-55C

161--Aberdeen, South Dakota:  High 115F/46C  Low -46F/-43C

160--Fairbanks, Alaska  High 94F/34C  Low -66F/-54F

Broken Bow, Nebraska came close at 158.  High 116F/47C  Low -42F/-41C

Even though Atlanta is a tough place to grow palms, it is quite hospitible when compared to a lot of places.

[elHoagie]

That's nothing!  The record holder is Verkhoyansk in Russia at 105 degrees C (189F).  Record low is -68C (-91F), Record high is 37C (98F).

[Steve]

Wow, very impressive.  I had a feeling that there might be some international places with more extreme records.  Weather.com only has records for US cities unfortunately.  That would make sense that Russia has the record.  The temps tend to get more extreme in the center of large land masses, and Russia is at the northern end of the largest land mass.

[Neofolis]

I believe that the area of Siberia have the greatest summer/winter normal temperature difference, with 40°C/104°F summer highs and -60°C/-76°F winter lows.  I assume Verkhoyansk would be somewhere in Siberia.