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July 14, 1936 was the peak day of the heat wave for most areas with countless record-breaking temperatures broken across many areas. The records are as follows. Pittsburgh, PA: 102 °F (38.9 °C) Detroit, MI: 104 °F (40.0 °C) Springfield, MO: 104 °F (40.0 °C) (Later broken with 113 °F (45 °C) on July 14, 1954)
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]
The warmest day on record for the entire planet was 22 July 2024 when the highest global average temperature was recorded at 17.16 °C (62.89 °F). [20] The previous record was 17.09 °C (62.76 °F) set the day before on 21 July 2024. [20] The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [21]
Coldest: Decatur, Alabama. The northern part of the state holds the city with the lowest average temperature: Decatur. It gets down to an average of only 50 degrees during the year.
The cold wave was related to a highly negative North Atlantic Oscillation event during that winter driving cold Arctic air into most of North America. [1] February 1936 was the coldest February on record in the contiguous U.S., narrowly eclipsing February 1899. [2] It also was the coldest month ever in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Recent years show the atmosphere can deliver the coldest air sooner or later than the average: A bitterly cold outbreak in early March 2019 was the coldest of the season in Great Falls, Montana ...
That's based on the map below which shows when the average coldest day of the year typically occurs in the United States, according to 1991-2020 data from NOAA. January is also the coldest time of ...
The 1985 North America cold wave [1] was a meteorological event which occurred in January 1985 as a result of the shifting of the polar vortex farther south than is normally seen. [1] Blocked from its normal movement, polar air from the north pushed into nearly every section of the central and eastern half of the United States and Canada ...