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Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 June ...
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] If two dates have the same temperature record (e.g. record low of 40 °F or 4.4 °C in 1911 in Aibonito and 1966 in San ...
199.6. Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, causes as yet unclear. 66. Perhaps 30,000 years of volcanic activity form the Deccan Traps in India, or a large meteor impact. 66. Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, extinction of dinosaurs. 55.8. Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. 53.7.
General. List of weather records. Large-scale events that affected Minnesota. 2007 Midwest flooding. Mid-June 1992 Tornado Outbreak. 1968 Tracy tornado. 1991 Halloween blizzard. Great Storm of 1975. 1936 North American heat wave.
Modern weather historians such as Christopher C. Burt and William Taylor Reid have also claimed that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 to 2.8 °C (4 to 5 °F) too high. The WMO has come out in support of the current record stating that "We accept that Death Valley temperature extreme record. If any new materials on ...
3000 BC – Meteorology in India can be traced back to around 3000 BC, with writings such as the Upanishads, containing discussions about the processes of cloud formation and rain and the seasonal cycles caused by the movement of earth round the sun. [1] 600 BC – Thales may qualify as the first Greek meteorologist.
Greatest 24-hour snowfall. 32.0 inches (81 cm) December 2, 1985. Herman. Greatest snow depth. 117.0 inches (297 cm) January 27–31, 1948. Eagle Harbor.
Date Location Highest Temperature: 106 °F (41 °C) 23 August 1916 Torrington, CT: 15 July 1995 Danbury, CT: Lowest Temperature: −37 °F (−38 °C) 16 February 1943 Norfolk, CT “The Ice Box of CT” 22 January 1961 Coventry, CT