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2015 May

Hottest Summers, Coldest Winters for Contiguous U.S.: A Few Years Loom Large

Keeping track of all-time warmest/coldest daily maximum temperatures and all-time warmest/coldest months on record for any given site is a fairly easy task. However, very few NWS sites provide data concerning what their respective coldest climatological winters (December-February) or hottest climatological summers (June-August) have been. Researching 300 sites in the contiguous U.S. I have put together this summary for such. Below are the methods I used and some of the results, which proved quite interesting.

weatherhistorian, • 6:27 PM GMT on May 28, 2015