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I'm just here to note that it was -18F when I got up yesterday and right now it's +40F -- and that span of 58 F degrees in just 36 hours seems pretty extreme.

(There's probably another already existing thread for stuff like this but I didn't find it with a few seconds of searching.)
 
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A couple of years ago it dropped from 65 degrees in early afternoon to - 14 degrees the next morning. Freaked me out. The last one a couple days ago was from about 50 degrees to zero in about the same time. Similar but less extreme things have been happening over the last several years, its spooky.  
 
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We had an abnormally dry and warm November, losing so much soil moisture that lots of paddocks started browning off. This month looked like it might flip the trend when on the 3rd we got monsoon-like downpours...42 mm in a couple of hours. Then we went back to the oven, with a couple of days as hot as we typically get at our peak of summer in the end of January. Now things have gone back to a more typical early summer pattern, unsettled with showers and cool southerlies on the back of them. There's at least some rain in the forecast for almost the rest of the month.

I don't really care much for the "new normal," fam.
 
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The record is from -4F to 45F in two MINUTES. But yeah, this winter has been weird. And it isn’t even winter yet.
 
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R Scott wrote:The record is from -4F to 45F in two MINUTES.

that sounds like quite the story — where and when?!?
 
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Spearfish, South Dakota in the 1940’s. After that it slowly climbed to 58 in the next hour and a half. Then it dropped back to -4 in a half hour. So two 60 degree swings in two hours!  
 
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Christopher Weeks wrote:

R Scott wrote:The record is from -4F to 45F in two MINUTES.

that sounds like quite the story — where and when?!?



Must be this. That same day it went from 58F back to -4F in 27 minutes.

https://weathereventsexplained.com/the-weirdest-temperature-drops-that-happened-in-just-minutes/

*I'm too slow!
 
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You're pretty close to Winnipeg I think?

This is a traditional Manitoba folk song ( or traditional parody of a traditional folksong??)

I sing the second verse to myself every time I'm annoyed about changeable weather.

Sung to the tune of "Red River Valley".

https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2093

Oh, my grandpa came west in the 'eighties
To the prairies where grain grows like grass
But the bankers and freight rates got grandpa
And so grandpa went east, second class.

chorus: Oh it's forty below in the winter
And it's twenty below in the fall
And it rises to zero in springtime
And we don't have no summer at all.

It was raining and hailing this morning,
On the corner of Portage and Main,
Now it's noon and the basements are flooded
And the duststorms are starting again.

(Chorus)

Come and pay for my fare if you love me
And I'll hasten to bid you adieu
And farewell to your Red River Valley,
And its natives, all shivering and blue!

Here's a YouTube version.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6S09kbHq5uk&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

Earlier this week we went from +2C and sleeting, to -15C in less than 24 hrs. My driveway still has an inch thick layer of ice in areas.
 
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yesterday we were at 30C (high 80s F?) and it's now in the teens (high fifties). The plants are confused.

It looks like we're going to have another "weird" summer- my corn is knee high but tasseled with ears already. The string beans are loaded with beans but aren't even halfway up my calf yet. Last year we had so much rain and so little sun that things like okra didn't even try to grow. This year everything is stunted: we've had scorching heat early (summer starts in a week or so if i'm not mistaken) but still very little sun, mostly clouds, everything is growing in fits and starts.
At least the yard long beans are developing well, that's the one thing I really, really want.
 
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On Monday, it was -10F in the morning with wind chill.

It is reported that on Thursday, we will have a high of 58F.

I'm looking around at all the snow and realizing that we might have some localized flooding that I need to start preparing for.

The joys of a Northeastern Winter!
 
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Hi Christoper,

Of course, just about everyone I have meet feels their region has wild temperature swings. I do believe Minnesota as well as the states to the West of it into the Rockies experience some of the worse.  I vividly remember snow coming down hard in June during my Minnesota experience,  No, it didn’t stick, but it was coming down hard.  And yes, a day before was typical June weather.
 
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My father (1928-2002) farmed in central Saskatchewan - I recall him saying that August was the only month he hadn't seen snow (although it could have been July).

Late last week we had yellow warning for cold (Environment Canada has changed to a colour coding system), yesterday was a different yellow warning as it got up to 5.8 C at the airport at 10:00 a.m. - rain was predicted but I didn't see any.  Today we have an orange warning for blizzard conditions starting late afternoon through tomorrow morning.  By the end of the week we may have a cold warning again.

The temperature / wind chill warnings they issue make me think we'll never be without warnings in January...which implies the warnings will be ignored therefore absolutely useless.  You'd think they didn't realize we know we live in "Winterpeg".

 
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One of the more disturbing things I've seen was May 28th 2018 Twin Cities Minnesota USA area. 100°F. And close enough for a few days around there.

We just had a cold April. The ground was still frozen in many places. Around town wherever there were evergreen trees planted and the ground was still frozen, like on the north side of a building etc., many of those evergreens just turned brown and died that spring.

The last 2 years the lilacs have tried to bloom a second time in the fall.

Those 2 things I had never seen before. I think weather related at least.
 
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Well, I'm in 4B, Central Wisconsin. Spring and Fall, in a Continental climate are the seasons that are quite unpredictable. Like they say, "if you don't like the weather, just wait a day: It will change".
Right now, December 26th, the snow is melting. That's not what you would expect.
After a cool spring, we had a torrid summer. There does seem to be a perturbance in the weather force.
 
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We have a similar saying in Melbourne, Australia, " Dont like the weather, wait an hour", sometimes we remind each other of the fact we can have 4 seasons i one day.
I ride motorcycles, it is always smart to have water proofs on board at all times.
I have witnessed drops of 20 deg. Celcius.
 
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John C Daley wrote:... " Dont like the weather, wait an hour"...


Our version is, "If yo don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes or move 5 kilometers!

We frequently have had sunshine on the front lawn, and rain 100 ft behind the house!
 
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We had record warm Christmas this year and I bought my potted citrus out to enjoy the warmth and sunshine. The seedling tree has grown wider and taller than the door and is full of thorns. Not easy to move it around but for five consecutive days of spring like weather it was worth the hassle.
 
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I have to agree it's pretty weird!

Christmas Day - the middle of usually hot bush fire prone summer in Australia it actually snowed in our state of Tasmania and dropped to low autumn/winter temperatures all down our east coast.

My plants are very confused, I have shade cloth over them some hot days then the next few days frost cloth just trying for a happy medium and unaffected produce.

It's working but very labor intensive running in and out changing garden covers.
 
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I’ve spent the Christmas holiday in Missouri (600 miles / 7° / 10 hours) south of where we live, but it’s been highs in the 60s+ (F) the whole time. We’re heading home today to beat a snow storm with half a foot of snow at home in the morning. That’s felt like a goofy swing but is mostly because of our travel. On the other hand, I see that it’s dropping back into the more normal highs in the 20s-40s range this week, so it really is kind of a goofily warm spell.
 
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Even here, in central Missouri, the temperature swings are weird. We've had several days of daytime temps in the 70s, and night temps in the 50s & 60s. Now, tomorrow, it's supposed to be in the mid 60s, during the day, and drop to 15, tomorrow night, only get up to the 20s on Monday, then Tuesday, be back to daytime temps in the 40s... The plants all think it's spring. So far, the critters are taking it all in stride - thoroughly enjoying the warm, sunny days - but they're going to be ticked off, by Monday morning, wanting to know why I turned off the heat (from that big bright thing in the sky), so suddenly.
 
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Wow. Yesterday, in the 70s, and last night, it was downright balmy. At 10 this morning it was 67°. Now, it's 38° with a wind chill of 29° & dropping fast, windy, and gloomy... And, I'm struggling to resist the urge to crawl into bed and sleep until Tuesday...
 
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Annette Jones wrote:I have to agree it's pretty weird!

Christmas Day - the middle of usually hot bush fire prone summer in Australia it actually snowed in our state of Tasmania and dropped to low autumn/winter temperatures all down our east coast.

My plants are very confused, I have shade cloth over them some hot days then the next few days frost cloth just trying for a happy medium and unaffected produce.

It's working but very labor intensive running in and out changing garden covers.



Annette, your polar blast just crossed the ditch and is over here crashing into an warm atmospheric river out of the tropics. We're about to get blasted with 120 km/h winds here. Stuff is already blowing loose and I expect some damage in the orchard. This is why I keep my fruit trees on the short side...we always seem to get a stray cyclone when the branches are loaded.
 
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73F/23C at noon then dropped to 15F/-9C overnight, with windchill of 0F. I am relieved it's back to normal winter temperature, otherwise my fruit trees would be breaking dormancy in January.
 
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May Lotito wrote:73F/23C at noon then dropped to 15F/-9C overnight, with windchill of 0F. I am relieved it's back to normal winter temperature, otherwise my fruit trees would be breaking dormancy in January.



So very true - and it would wreak havoc on all the wildlife, including the insects that go dormant.
 
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