Denver, Seattle, & Others Break Century-Old Low Temp Records
... During what is already Denver’s snowiest start to a year on record, the city is also now breaking a string of historic low temperature benchmarks:
A record low-max of 8F was logged Tuesday, smashing the previous record of 13F from Feb 22, 1913
and then on Wednesday, a low of -7F was registered, breaking the -4F set in 1899 according to the NWS in Boulder:
The low this morning was -7 degrees which set a new record low for the day. The previous record was -4 degrees way back in 1899.
— NWS Boulder
(@NWSBoulder)
February 23, 2022
... (Wednesday) Morning lows are in the books. New records Seattle 23°, old record 24° in 2018, Olympia 14°, old record 16° in 2018. Record tied at Quillayute with 24° last set in 2018. Just missing a record Bellingham with 20°, record 19° in 2018.
— NWS Seattle
(@NWSSeattle)
February 23, 2022
In Casper, Wyoming, the mercury topped out at just -2F on Tuesday, annihilating the city’s previous lowest-high for Feb 22 of 16 degrees;
and likewise in central Wyoming, maxes in Buffalo struggled to -4F, some 14F below the previous record;
while the cities of Rock Springs, Riverton, Worland, Big Piney and Greybull also experienced record cold, reports the NWS.
In fact, hundreds upon hundreds of low temperature benchmarks have fallen this week across the U.S., with an impressive number tumbling over the past 24 hours alone
... A record 24-hour temperature swing has already occurred in Austin, Texas. The city’s main weather station at Camp Mabry went from 88F at 3:15 PM Tuesday to 32F at 3:15PM Wednesday
— a plunge of 56F which bested the previous largest 24-hour swing of 51F which, according to the NWS, happened on three separate occasions: in 1990, in 1994, and in 1955.
Snow Falls At Low Elevations In California
... with busted records:
In Riverside County, Thermal hit 58F, beating the previous record of 60F in 1953; Idyllwild saw a maximum of 29F, besting the 35F from 2007; while Big Bear suffered 23F, usurping 2018’s 27F.
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Buried Under Historic February Snow
... Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is digging out from record-breaking totals — the NWS office in Marquette reported two consecutive days with multiple historic snowfall numbers, reports detroitnews.com.
A total of 21.6 inches fell on Tuesday, slaughtering the prior Feb 22 record of 7.5 set back in 1974.
... Areas prone to NE wind lake-effect have had their fair share of snow the last couple days…our office included. We did set new precip and snow records the last two days. Yesterday's snow was the single largest snowfall amount for any day in February on record.
#906wx pic.twitter.com/KsjqWVruO4
— NWS Marquette
(@NWSMarquette)
February 23, 2022
Looking solely at the NWS station in Marquette, Monday notched 0.70 inches of melted snow/precipitation, which broke the record of 0.37 from 1979;
the day finished with 9.7 inches of accumulated snow, which felled the date’s previous record of 6.9 from 2009.
... Tuesday’s snowfall (of) 21.6 inches not only slaughtered the Feb 22 record of 7.5 set back in 1974,
it also bested the locale’s all-time record for the month — the 19.4 inches from Feb 26, 2002.
Marquette has now received 56.3 inches of snow so far in February (with more to come).
That’s 26.1 inches above the norm, and also adds to the impressive totals building across the Northern Hemisphere this season which stand at 300+ Gigatons above the 1982-2012 average:
In 2022, the floating ice cover in the Bering Sea reached its greatest February extent since 2013.
The map below shows the extent of sea ice in the Bering Sea as of Feb 16, 2022 — ice covered more than 846,000 square kilometres (327,000 square miles), far exceeding the 1981–2010 mean.
