Wikipedia

User:Maxcrc/North America

< User:Maxcrc

The following table lists records of extreme temperature in territories of North America, which here includes Central America and the Caribbean.


Territory Lowest Temperature Highest Temperature
T°C Place Date T°C Place Date
North America -69.6 Klinck  Greenland 22 December 1991 54.4 Death Valley  United States 16 August 2020 and 9 July 2021
 Anguilla (UK) 17.9 The Valley [1] 7 April 2003 34.2 The Valley [2] 10 October 2015
 Antigua and Barbuda 15.6 St John's Botanic Gardens Antigua [3] 5 March 1894 34.9 V.C. Bird International Airport Antigua [4] 12 August 1995
 Bahamas 3 Freeport Grand Bahama [5] 20 January 1977 36.5 Nassau Airport New Providence [6] 7 June 1998
 Barbados 15.0 Gibbons Boggs [7] January 1980 35.6 St. James [8] September 2023 and October 2023
 Belize 4 Sibun Hill [9] December 1968 42.3 Barton Creek [10] 10 April 2024
 Bermuda (UK) 5.2 Fort George [11] 4 February 1955 34.9 Prospect Hill [12][13] 18 August 1931
 British Virgin Islands (UK) 16.7 Paraquita Bay (Tortola) [14] April 1976 35 Beef Island Airport 22 July 2016
 Canada -63.0 Snag Yukon [15][16] 3 February 1947 49.6 Lytton British_Columbia [15] 29 June 2021
 Cayman Islands (UK) 11.1 Owen Roberts International Airport Grand Cayman [17] 11 February 1968 35.3 Owen Roberts International Airport Grand Cayman [18] 21 July 2023
 Costa Rica -3.0 Volcan Irazu [19] 15 January 1974 41.5 Cerro Huacalito Guanacaste province [20] 23 March 2024
 Cuba 0.6 Bainoa La Habana (Havana) province [21][22] 18 February 1996 39.7 Veguitas Granma province 12 April 2020
 Dominican Republic 0.0 Constanza La Vega province [23][24] 14 January 1956 and 8 February 1958 40.8 Jimani [23][25] 19 July 2009
 Dominica 15.2 Melville Hall Airport [26] 5 February 1980 36.6 Canefield Airport [27] 27 August 2023
 El Salvador -6.1 Cerro El Pital Chalatenango department [28] 11 January 1956 44.8 San Miguel [28][29] 1 April 1958
 Greenland (Den.) -69.6 Klinck [30] 22 December 1991 25.9 Maniitsoq (Maniitsoq) [31] 30 July 2013
 Grenada 16.1 Pearls Airport [32] 24 February 1948 35.7 Mac Donald College [3][33] February 1998
 Guadeloupe (Fr.) 11.0 St-Claude [34] 16 January 1975 36.5 Bailif [35] 16 September 1998
 Guatemala -11.5 Olintepeque Quetzaltenango[36] January 1987 45.0 Estanzuela Zacapa department [37][38] 12 May 1998
 Haiti 1 Forêt des Pins and Seguin 8 December 1957 39.4 Port Au Prince Airport [39] 10 June 1985
 Honduras -0.6 La Esperanza Intibucá department [40] 17 February 1956 43.3 San Pedro Sula Cortés department [41][42] 13 March 1987
 Jamaica 0.7 Blue Mountain Range [43] February 1893 39.1 Saint Andrew [44] 22 June 2019
 Martinique (Fr.) 12.1 Champflore [45] 11 December 2022 36.6 Ducos [46] 15 September 2023
 Mexico -30 Villa Ahumada [47][48] 11 January 1962 52.0 Rancho Williams (near Ciudad Morelos) Baja California state [49][50][51] 27 July 1995
Mexicali Agricultural Station Baja California state [52][51] 28 July 1995
 Montserrat (UK) 15.6 Grove Botanic Station [53] January 1956 33.9 Grove Botanic Station [54] 30 August 1963
 Nicaragua 5.5 Esteli [55] December 1975 41.6 Chinandega [56] 2 April 1972
 Panama 2.0 Bajo Grande Chiriquí province [57] 24 December 1978, 9 January 1987 ,12 March 1994 and 20 February 1995 40.0 San Francisco Veraguas province [58] 20 March 1998
 Puerto Rico (US) 7.2 Garza [59] 24 March 1955 37.8 Ponce [59][60] 14 August 1944 and 21 August 2003
Aguirre 17 September 2020
 Saba Netherlands 16.0 National Marine Park, Windwardside and Zion's Hill [61] 35.0 National Marine Park [62] August 1993
 Saint BarthélemySaint Barthélemy (Fr.) 15.6 Gustavia [63] December 1949 35.5 Gustavia [64] 5 October 2015 and 15 September 2023
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 16 Basseterre Airport St Kitts [65] 28 and 29 January 1976 35.1 Basseterre [66][67] 7 September 1987
 Saint Lucia 15.6 Castries [68] 25 January 1906 and 19 February 1911 35.6 Castries [69] 25 August 1927, 18 May and 19 May 1979, and 8 May and 9 May 1980
Reunion (near Choiseul) [70] 25 August 1927
 Saint Martin (Fr.) 17.0 Orléans [71] 28 January 1976 36.1 Orléans [64][72] 22 September 1998
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Fr.)' -22.5 St-Pierre February 1875 28.3 St-Pierre [73] 6 July 2013
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 16.7 Kingstown [3][74] December 1949 35.6 Camden Park [75] June 1979
 Sint Eustatius Netherlands 16.4 Roosevelt Airport [76] 26 February 2002 34.3 Roosevelt Airport [77] 9 October 2004
 Sint Maarten Netherlands 17.0 Princess Juliana International Airport [78] 3 January 1955 35.0 Princess Juliana International Airport [79] 4 August 1955, 15 October 1957 and 20 and 29 August 1980
 Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) 15.6 Grand Turk [80] January 1922, February 1928 and January 1940 35.6 Grand Turk June 1940
 United States -62.1 Prospect Creek Alaska [81] 23 January 1971 54.4 Death Valley (Furnace Creek) California [82] 16 August 2020 and 9 July 2021
 United States Virgin Islands (US) 16.1 St Croix Airport St Croix [83][84] 20 January 2000 36.1 St. Croix [85] 9 September 2023

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ http://gov.ai/statistics/ENV_CLIM_TABLE.htm. Anguilla reliable data encompasses a short period of time. More extreme temperatures may have been occurred in the past,but old data is plagued by errors and instruments used were affected by overexposure conditions.
  2. ^ 34.4C recorded 1 day later is possibly incorrect.
  3. ^ a b c Monthly Weather Summary Special Issue, Caribbean Meteorological Institute, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 20 May 2007. These readings might be not fully reliable. 15.6C claimed in November 1925 is a wrong data.The same reading on 11 November 1913 is suspicious. 15.5C recorded at the V.C. Bird International Airport in January 1992 is also unreliable. 15.4C recorded at Freetown on 4 February 2016 is probably unreliable.
  4. ^ 35.0C might have been recorded at Codrington,Barbuda, but this hasn't been confirmed. 35.0C at St John's Botanic Gardens in June 1935 is incorrect.
  5. ^ 1.7C recorded on the same day at West End is probably unreliable.
  6. ^ Climate Explorer, The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).Temperatures as high as 37.0C on June 2006 at Georgetown ,Exuma Island are believed to be unreliable. A temperature of 36.7C recorded at Nassau on 25 June 1898 is believed to have been affected by overexposure and it is not been considered official. Higher temperatures recorded in early XIX century in Nassau (as high as 110F) and prior to 1970 in other stations were likely affected by overexposure.
  7. ^ Monthly Weather Summary, 1980, Caribbean Meteorological Institute, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 26 January 2007. This temperature is dubious. 15.0C was also recorded at Waterford in the period 1958-1966.
  8. ^ http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/browse/badc/corral/images/metobs/carrib/Barbados/StAnns1881-86/Capture_00005.JPG .Temperatures as high as 36C at Husbands in 2007 are probably unreliable.
  9. ^ Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, Ambergris Caye Belize. Retrieved 26 January 2007. 3.3C claimed at Punta Gorda is absolutely unreliable.Lowest temperature recorded in a inhabited place is 5.6C at Augustine.
  10. ^ Monthly Weather Summary, Caribbean Meteorological Institute, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 26 January 2007. A temperature of 44.0C at the same location in 2011,a 43.3C claimed at Belmopan in May 1976 and a 42.8C at Sibun Hill should regarded as likely incorrect.
  11. ^ Ian Currie and Brian Kolts, Bermuda Weather. This temperature was recorded on the top of the hill of St George Island. Minimum temperatures in Bermuda recorded before 1894 are unreliable,although 3.1C at Prospect Hill in January 1874 ,when few flakes of snow fell,might be not too incorrect.
  12. ^ What—Where—When of Bermuda, Made in Atlantis. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
  13. ^ The same reading was also recorded on 16 August 1875,although that is considered unofficial,since a proper screen wasn't installed at that time.
  14. ^ Paraquita Bay has also recorded 16.7C in prior occasions in 1911 and 1930,but old data at the previous station is mostly unreliable.
  15. ^ a b Canadian Weather Records, Dan Dan the Weatherman. Retrieved 4 February 2007. The original reading of -62.8C was later corrected to -63.0C.
  16. ^ An unofficial reading of -77.5C has been recorded on the top of Mount Logan ,but it may be unreliable. Unofficial readings as low as -71.1C have been recorded in British Columbia near Fort Nelson in January 1982.
  17. ^ 11.1C was also wrongly reported in September 1965 at Georgetown, if the reading is correct, it was recorded in March.
  18. ^ A 36.5°C reported from the same location is likely to be a typo error. Possible reliable temperatures as high as 36.3C in August 2016 have been recorded in automated private stations in Georgetown.
  19. ^ Temperatures as low as -9.4C claimed on Mount Chirripò, Cerro a la Muerte and Volcan Poas were taken under not proper conditions. In inhabited places,temperatures as low as -3C have been reported at Villa Mills.
  20. ^ Temperatures of 43.0C and 42.3C recorded at Puntarenas in February and March 1964 and of 44.0C at Parrita were taken in a period of time during which these stations weren't working properly.Higher temperatures, specifically the 42.0C at Canas on 26 April 1952 were taken with not proper exposure conditions.
  21. ^ Mínimos y máximos. Las temperaturas de la Tierra, El Habanero. Retrieved 15 February 2007.
  22. ^ 0.0C reported at Batabano was probably recorded under not proper exposure conditions. Lower temperatures where probably recorded during the XIX century, when freezing was recorded in occasions in the inland parts of the Havana province.
  23. ^ a b Efemérides Meteorológicas Dominicanas, ACQWeather.com. Retrieved 19May 2007.
  24. ^ A temperature of -1.0C recorded in the same place on 6 February 1958 could be an error as the daily observations show a minimum of +1.0C that day.Also, some sources report a different date of the January 1956 occurrence,but the correct date is believed to be the day 14th.The same temperature is also reported at Constanza on 30 December 1938,albeit there are doubts about the conditions of the exposure of the station at that time. A temperature of -8°C has been reported at high elevation on Pico Duarte. Unofficial temperatures as low as -9C has been reported from Las Piramides, a site at high elevation in the Valle Nuevo.
  25. ^ Temperatures like 43.2C reported from Mao on 31 August 1954 and 42.8C reported from Duverge on 19 August 1965 were recorded under not proper exposure conditions. 42.0C reported from Yasica in September 1987 and 41.0C reported from Moca in May 1997 are unreliable. Temperatures of 41C at Pepillo Salcedo in 1964 and at Bonao in 1956 are dubious.
  26. ^ Lower temperatures recorded at Roseau are believed to be unreliable. 13.9C was also recorded at Brandtridge at an elevation of 550m in March 1972, but data encompasses only a couple of years.
  27. ^ Old temperatures as high as 37.2C at the Roseau Botanic Gardens were affected by overexpsure conditions.
  28. ^ a b Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales (SNET).This temperature was recorded in the camping below the El Pital Peak in a not inhabited zone.-9.2C claimed at the same location is dubious and unconfirmed. Los Naranjos, Sonsonate department has recorded -4C in 1956,1959,1968 and 1970.
  29. ^ Temperatures as high as 45.0C at La Hachadura in May 1979 are believed to be unreliable. These temperatures in late 50s at San Miguel might also be affected by overexposure. 44.0C was recorded in the same station in May 1998.
  30. ^ http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/awsrecords.html. This station is located on the uninhabited plateau at high altitude on the ice cap. The lowest temperature recorded at an inhabited place is -47.2°C at Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord) on 4 January 1983.
  31. ^ Many references give the Greenland record at Ivigtut on June 23th,1915. Nevertheless, neither the station historical record nor its daily/hourly temperatures on those days in June 1915 supports this reading.
  32. ^ http://browse.ceda.ac.uk/browse/badc/corral/images/metobs/carrib/Grenada/Grenada1946-51/Capture_00039.JPG. Lower temperatures recorded at the Grand Etang and on the Richmond Hill are mostly unreliable. 16.0C was also recorded at Mirabeau in January and December 1984 but this station has a short period of record and its validity is dubious.
  33. ^ This temperature is slightly dubious,but indeed possibly reliable.
  34. ^ Il a neigé sur la Soufrière, VolCreole.com. Retrieved 18 May 2007.A unofficial temperature of 9.8C was also recorded at the same location in December 1996. 7C was recorded on the top of the Soufriere Volcano in February 1998 (with data available from 1996 up to today).
  35. ^ https://guadeloupe.ademe.fr/sites/default/files/files/Actualites/Manifestations/2014/Le-climat-en-Guadeloupe-MR-CAYOL.pdf.
  36. ^ http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2006/noviembre/23/lectura_dept.html]. Unofficial temperatures as low as -16C have been recorded in remote mountanous areas.
  37. ^ || [1]
  38. ^ A temperature of 46.8C recorded at la Fragua in April 1991 is to be considered suspecious. Temperatures as high as 47C recorded at Gualan and Usumatlan are probably unreliable.
  39. ^ Bulletin Météorologique 1910, Société Astronomique et Météorologique de Port-au-Prince (Haïti), NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 2 July 2007.Data from Turgeau was taken under not proper conditions. Also, temperatures of 42C reported from Gonaives and St. Marc are unreliable.
  40. ^ Unofficial temperatures as low as -3C were recorded in the village of El Pelon.
  41. ^ Medidas Básicas a tomar en cuenta ante ola de calor, HRN La Voz de Honduras. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
  42. ^ A temperature of 43.7°C claimed at Choluteca in June 1979 is wrong. A temperature of 45.5C recorded at Guayabillas in March 1966 April 1983 is likely affected by overexposure conditions.
  43. ^ http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd322_pdf/LSN2218.PDF. Lowest temperature in an inhabited place is 3.8C at New Haven Gap on 27 December 1885.
  44. ^ It was recorded in the Shortwood Teacher’s College weather station.
  45. ^ Résumé Mensuel de Temps aux Antilles et en Guyane Française 1975, Service Météorologique du Groupe Antilles – Guyane, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Lower temperatures recorded at Fonds-St-Denis like the 12.0C in March 1965 and 12.3C in May 2008 are unreliable.
  46. ^ Résumé Mensuel de Temps 1983, Direction de la Météorologie Service Antilles – Guyane], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. 37.0C recorded at Pointe des Nègres on 13 September 2019 and at Vauclin on 23 August 2023 and few other higher temperatures, are probably unreliable.
  47. ^ McWhirter, Norris and Ross McWhirter (1969). Dunlop Illustrated Encyclopedia of Facts. Doubleday. ISBN 0385011199.
  48. ^ Temperatures as low as -32C reported in the municipalities of Temosachic and Santa Barbara are either dubious and unofficial or plain wrong. Unofficial temperatures as low as -31C has been reported on the peak of Cerro Mohinora.
  49. ^ Normales Climatológicas 1971-2000, Delta, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, México. Retrieved 14 March 2008.
  50. ^ Normales Climatológicas 1971-2000, Rancho Williams, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, México. Retrieved 14 March 2008.
  51. ^ a b These readings of 52.0C at Rancho Williams and Delta and others recorded in the nets of "conventional stations" with precision of half a degree Celsius should be considered not fully reliable and in most cases overestimated. Higher temperatures reported in Mexico during early XX century and even in some mechanical stations in the 60s and 70s in Sonora State were recorded under bad or even terrible exposure conditions.Particulary the data of San Luis Rio Colorado ,like the absurd and completely wrong temperatures between 50C and 58.5C ,is absolutely terrible with temperatures constantly overestimated by as much as 20C.
  52. ^ Normales Climatológicas 1971-2000, Mexicali Cmpo. Agr. Exp., Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, México. Retrieved 14 March 2008.
  53. ^ A reading of 15.0C recorded in November 1933 should be considered suspicious and likely affected by overexposure.
  54. ^ Old temperature records between 1917 and 1939 are unreliable.
  55. ^ http://www.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2006/febrero/10/agenda/agenda-20060210-05.html. Retrieved 6 May 2007.Temperatures as low as 4C are estimated in the San Rafael del Norte area.
  56. ^ Pese a las lluvias, los calores de abril podrían arreciar, Bolsa de Noticias. This reading is sometimes presented as 42.0C, due to an aproximation. A temperature of 42.0C recorded at San Francisco Libre in May 1961 was likely taken with not proper instruments.
  57. ^ This location is not inhabited, but it is close to the village of Cerro de Punta. A temperature of -6.0C has been recorded on the top of the Baru Volcano.
  58. ^ http://www.elsiglo.com/siglov2/Play.php?fechaz=13-04-2008&idnews=68744
  59. ^ a b Heinrichs, Anne (2003). Puerto Rico. Compass Point Books. ISBN 0756503574. Lower temperatures at Aibonito of 4.4C in March 1911, at Adjuntas Substation and at the same station Guineo Reservoir in early 1930s are unreliable.
  60. ^ 37.8C at the same location in November 2016 is probably unreliable. Higher temperatures, like 39.4C at San Lorenzo in August 1906, other old 37.8C in few small stations are unreliable,besides the ridicolous 40.0C at Mona Island in July 1996. Mayaguez City maximum temperatures in October 1996 are unreliable. Corozal also recorded 37.8C on 12 July 2009 but it is probably unreliable just like the same temperature at Magueyes Island on 7 September 1997.
  61. ^ Note:Temperatures in the island of Saba have been taken sporadically and for short periods of time.
  62. ^ This reading is not 100% official. Highest temperature recorded at Juancho Yrausquin Int. Airport is 34.4C on 29 August and 8 September 2023.
  63. ^ Annales des Services Météorologique de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1959, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 February 2006.
  64. ^ a b Résumé Mensuel de Temps 1981, Direction de la Météorologie Service Antilles – Guyane, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  65. ^ US Department of Commerce (1991). Climates of the World.Lower temperatures like 13.9C in December 1949 are unreliable.
  66. ^ Klimatabelle für Basseterre / St. Kitts, wetter.com. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  67. ^ 36.7°C has been reported at Basseterre National Agricultural Corporation St Kitts in October 1982 but appears unreliable.
  68. ^ Old records at the former capital Soufriere were taken under not proper exposure conditions, including the 13.3C lowest temperature.Also lower temperatures recorded at Union and Roseau Winban are believed to be unreliable. Castries itself has mostly unreliable data. An effort was made to use only decent data.
  69. ^ Old records at the former capital Soufriere were taken under not proper exposure conditions, including the 36.1C highest temperature.Also a temperature of 36.1C in the Botanic Gardens of Castries in June 1899 might have been affected by the same problems.The first reading of August 1927 was recorded in a station called Reunion, which is believed to be located in or around Castries itself.
  70. ^ Cite error: The named reference LCA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  71. ^ Résumé Mensuel de Temps 1976, Service Météorologique Antilles Guyane, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 25 May 2007. Temperatures as low as 14.3C recorded in 2009 are incorrect.
  72. ^ 36.4C recorded in September 1981 is unreliable.
  73. ^ Unofficial temperatures as high as 29C might have been recorded in secondary stations in St.Pierre Island.
  74. ^ A temperature of 15.6C at the same location in February 1910 and in January 1922 is unreliable.
  75. ^ Saint Vincent Airport Meteorological Services.
  76. ^ Temperatures as low as 16.0C recorded at Oranjestad are unreliable.
  77. ^ http://www.meteo.an
  78. ^ Area and Climate, Central Bureau of Statistics, Netherlands Antilles. Retrieved 31 March 2008. Some sources also give the same temperature recorded on 10 February 1966 as well, but the correct reading that day was 17.5C.
  79. ^ Climatological Summary for Sint Maarten, Meteorological Service of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Retrieved 31 March 2008. 37.2C claimed in September 1965 is unreliable.Temperatures between mid 1991 and early 1992 look unreliable.
  80. ^ Climatological Data for the West Indian Islands, Monthly Weather Review, April 1926, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 1 March 2007. The same reading might have also been recorded in other occasions.
  81. ^ Record-Setting Weather, Weather Explained. Retrieved 10 May 2007.Unofficial lower temperatures have been recorded nearby like in the settlement of Coldfoot. -73.5C was recorded near the top of Mount Mc Kinley.
  82. ^ The record Greenland Ranch maximums in July 1913 (the 8th thru 14th had highs of [in °F] 128, 129, 134, 129, 130, 131, and 127) are very untrustworthy: they are not supported by data from surrounding stations, nor are they supported by 80 subsequent years of high temperature measurements in Death Valley." See http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.wx-talk/browse_thread/thread/3665a8b27502bd84/53a73368356fc466?#53a73368356fc466 Death Valley Summer, Take Two. Generally speaking, temperatures recorded in early XX century late 1930s ca. at Greenland Ranch are not reliable
  83. ^ Cite error: The named reference USVI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  84. ^ The quality data of this territory is extremely poor for almost all stations. This has resulted in several wrong records published in other sources.
  85. ^ Data from Charlotte Amalie and others stations between 1972 and 1999 is unreliable.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Maxcrc/North_America&oldid=1218286584"