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Summers in Alabama are among the hottest in the United States, with high temperatures averaging over 90 °F (32 °C) throughout the summer in many parts of the state. In the extreme south, summer's heat is tempered slightly by winds from the Gulf of Mexico which often blow inland by up to 10–15 miles.
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]
January is known for frigid temperatures and for many the average coldest day of the year happens in the month. NOAA map shows when the average coldest day of the year typically occurs in the ...
Satellite measurements of the surface temperature of Antarctica, taken between 1982 and 2013, found a coldest temperature of −93.2 °C (−135.8 °F) on 10 August 2010, at Although this is not comparable to an air temperature, it is believed that the air temperature at this location would have been lower than the official record lowest air ...
Montana is the coldest in continental U.S. history, dropping to minus 70 degrees at Rogers Pass on Jan. 20, 1954. (MORE: Most Extreme U.S. Cold Outbreaks ) 50-states-all-time-cold.jpg
Brownsville, Texas fell to 16 °F (−9 °C) and temperatures on the upper coast fell into the single digits. [3] Dallas-Fort Worth had 295 consecutive hours of freezing temperatures ending on December 30, with a record low average monthly temperature of 34.8 °F (1.6 °C) and a low of 5 °F (−15 °C) on December 22. [2]
During December, cold weather spread to the eastern half of the U.S., where most places were much below average. Florida , Georgia , and South Carolina had their second-coldest Decembers of all-time, with Florida averaging 50.8 °F (10.4 °C), [ 14 ] Georgia 39.3 °F (4.1 °C), [ 15 ] and South Carolina 37.5 °F (3.1 °C). [ 16 ]
The cold wave of 1978 was a weather event that occurred in the Eastern United States. Beginning in December 1977 and lasting until March, it produced one of the coldest winters on record in all states east of the Rocky Mountains , except Maine.