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Important: In some federal states, even more extreme values are known to be measured on same or earlier dates. These dubious or unreliable values are not listed in this table unless they passed a basic temporal and spatial consistency & plausibility check (e. g. less than 0.9 °C / 1.6 °F above surrounding stations in German lowlands).
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972.
A low night temperature of −9.1 °C (15.6 °F) and heavy snow fell over the night of the 25th/26th, which was recorded at Redesdale Camp, Northumberland. A similar quantity of snow fell in Aberdeenshire, 12 cm (4.7 in) and 10 cm (3.9 in) in Durham that night. [1]
The frost-free season is brief, lasting from about 45 to 100 days at most, and freezing temperatures can occur at any time outside the summer months in many areas. Summers are short and range from warm to cool, lasting no more than three months of the year (but at least one month).
In the summer of 2003, there was a severe heatwave across Europe, considered the warmest summer on the continent since 1540. The heat and drought killed 72,210 people across 15 countries, making it the sixth deadliest disaster worldwide in the first two decades of the 21st century. Most of the deaths occurred in Italy and France.
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Spring thaw and huge puddles in Komi Republic, March 2015. Rasputitsa (from Russian: распу́тица [rɐsˈputʲɪtsə]; literally "season of bad roads" [1]) is the mud season that occurs in various rural areas of Eastern Europe, [2] when the rapid snowmelt or thawing of frozen ground combined with wet weather in spring, or heavy rains in autumn [1] [3] lead to muddy conditions that make ...
A dusting of snow is possible above 8,000 feet on Friday evening until Sunday morning in the highest elevations of the Sierra Nevada. The best chances are in the high country in Yosemite NP with a ...