Extreme Opposing Temperatures in the U.S

An interesting report published in late August by NOAA’s climate portal Climate.gov states that for the January-July period the contiguous U.S. has never seen such “radically different temperature extremes as they have so far this year.” In other words, it has been BOTH unusually cold AND unusually warm across the country since January 1st.

In itself this is not unusual, but what has been “unprecedented” (to quote NOAA) is how persistent this pattern has been over the past 7-8 months. As the NOAA article put it, “never before has the country experienced such large areas of simultaneous, opposing temperature extremes in the same January-July period.”

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