Tuesday, 29 September, 2009

1. By wally the duck. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @11:03am:

   Those must be mean or average temperatures... certainly not extremes. Variation of extremes would be about twice what is listed there.
2. By . Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @11:09am:

   http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/11440
   
   A commenter here mentions a 170 degree swing in Embarrass MN- but it lacks the population of 50,000 needed to appear here.
   I can recall summer temps over 100 and winters of -50 when I lived there...briefly.
3. By . Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @11:14am:

   I'm curious why they're (almost) all clustered around the midwest. Chicago is #66 on that list
   
   Curious.
4. By Broccoli. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @11:21am:

   why they're (almost) all clustered around the midwes

   
   
   Cities near the ocean do not change much because the water act as a big heat-sink (regulator). Cities in the middle of big continents will have bigger variations.
   Ex: midwest or mongolia
5. By . Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @11:25am:

   woo-hoo #80
6. By Stephen Cysewski. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @11:32am:

   Fairbanks Alaska is in the USA. Every year we go from -40 to +80 conservatively. Many years the range is more.
   Aggravating!
7. By Toad. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @11:46am:

   When we were in Idaho. Mrs. Toad and I visited a valley to the north of Boise that, we were told, is consistently listed as the place with the largest daily swings in temperature. Sure enough, it was listed on the Weather Channel that day has having had the biggest temperature swing. I want to say that it went from 14 degrees to 75 degrees that day. Gee probably knows the place I'm talking about.
8. By . Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @12:15pm:

   Toad -- 61 degrees is an impressively scary swing. We were being depressed yesterday because many SF bay area locations dropped 20-25 degrees from their sunny Sunday temps. I know, we're just ocean-hugging wimps.
9. By Damn Yankee. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @01:10pm:

   Schenectady...
   
   I've always loved the way that name makes your tongue bounce around in your mouth. :>)
10. By Toad. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @01:58pm:

    OK, I think it was Stanley, up in the Sawtooth Mountains. The cold would roll down the mountains through the night, and then the valley would warm up in the sun during the day, causing the big temperature swings.
    
    There's a place in California that also has those big daily swings. Of course, I can't remember its name, either.
11. By Doug. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @04:05pm:

    The politics forum at that site gets quite heated - with predictable left-right shouting. A thread starter earlier this week was upset that there were too many covert Canadians on the board commenting on US politics. In WW2 you could expose a German by asking a World Series question but that doesn't work with Canadians.
12. By jmnorthcutt. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @04:36pm:

    Last week my wife told me she wanted me to make some chili. I told her it was 96 degrees out. The next morning it was 54 degrees and then 45 the next. So, I made her (me too) some chili. Can't wait until chicken and dumplings weather.
    
    I guess I started it though, making some gumbo the weekend before. My wife and I have a deal. I cook and she enhances the flavor of what I cook.
13. By . Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @04:40pm:

    Can't wait until chicken and dumplings weather.

    
    You and me both. Pamn does most of the cooking around here, but when it comes to C&D, it's my turn at the stove. I've got it down to a science.
14. By Snag. Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @05:34pm:

    After some work converting to Farenheit, I realised that you guys have got it so good (other than Alaska).
    
    Annually we can get around 10.4 to 109.4 ... 99deg swing
    Daily, we can get swings of 37.4 to 80.6 ... 43.2deg swing
    
    Broccoli mentioned Mongolia and the US midwest. Climatically, we must be much the same. We're on an elevated plain in a rain-shadow south of Canberra, SE Australia.
    
    We get almost as hot as anyplace on our continent, and almost as cold. The average homeowner round these parts knows more about heating, cooling and thermal mass effects than most university experts, but they still insist on categorising us with inappropriate zones when applying building performance standards.
15. By . Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @06:13pm:

    I was very unhappy with the chicken and dumplings I fixed last - want to share your recipe, John?
16. By . Comment posted 29-Sep-2009 @09:00pm:

    105 in Paso Robles on Sunday... 26 miles to west San Simeon 64 degrees.

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