What is the largest TEMPERATURE change you've experienced?

[AviatorTom]

Where I live in Southeast US...

Sunday morning, it was 25F (-4C) and Monday afternoon, it was 75F (24C).

That's a 50F (28C) temperature change in less than 36 hours, and it's the middle of winter.

How about where you live?

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I once flew from Chicago US (-4F,-20C) to Brisbane Australia (35C,95F), it was quite a shock.

[MrOracle]

50F temp swings aren't at all uncommon at the coldest place in the continental US: Truckee, California, near Reno, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. One of my customers owns an old ski lodge near there, in the same valley that Truckee is in - which is also the valley where half a dozen major ski resorts are - so I'm up there fairly often. One night we were there, it was -18F outside at 11pm with a huge wind - and we froze our asses off - and by 2pm the next day, it was 63F. Not many places have that much of a temperature swing in a 24-hour period, but weather is "abnormal" when you're in a valley nestled in the top of a mountain range. I grant you, that one was huge and not super common, but I did experience it.

This ski lodge has 34 rooms and was built in the 1910s, and has single-pane windows made of wrought iron, with HUGE gaps, so when it's windy, that freezing air blows right into the room. It wasn't actually snowing, but there was already 12 feet of snow on the ground.

[loveslongnails]

I was in the Caribbean on vacation and it was 85 degrees Fahrenheit. I left in the morning and when I arrived home that evening to Wisconsin, it was -19 degrees Fahrenheit. That's a 104 degree swing. I was still wearing shorts, and she was wearing a sundress, so we had to change clothes when our luggage cleared! That was brutal.

I've since moved that kind of weather. Never want to see snow and ice like that again!

[Cynicaldreamer]

I'm from the South as well, and right now the temperature is fluctuating like crazy! Currently 81, and expected to be 86 by the end of the week- keep in mind it's only February now!

But extreme temperature wise, I'd say the worse I've seen is it go from the teens (12, 13 degrees), back up to the 40s, then 60s... in less than a week!

I hate the South sometimes 😒
This is why the majority of us stay sick...

[DizzyDesii]

MS was 102. I went to Vegas and it was 118 yet still felt cooler than down here

[DizzyDesii]

Oh wait nvm whenever its below 40 degrees in Ms, its too much to handle. I hate being cold

[OlderAndWiser]

Bein in the soheast and near the coast, I have experienced a day like what you descrbed but it was long ago and I don't remember the specifics.

[NathanDavis]

I live that every year... in Texas

when you go from the door of your house... to the door of your vehicle, then out of your vehicle... walk through the parking lot... and get into Costco

.. it

[Amy10223]

Not sure if it was here, or in NJ. I knew there was a difference of about 40 degrees ion the temperature from one day to the next. Most likely, it was here because we have unpredictable weather. At least there are no more blizzards to worry about.

[FreyaRed]

I'm living 2 km away from the coast and it happens often while hot late summer days cold sea breeze cools rapidly everything down at night. 20-25C temperature difference just in one hour isn't uncommon.

[Aerissa_Jade]

That is pretty normal here in the desert, can be in the teens on Monday and then by Wednesday up to 80 in the spring.

In the summer, can often be in the 40's in the early mornings and still get over a 100 f by 2pm.

[abc3643]

In a single day, probably February 1978 or February 2000.

In both cases, I was flying from New York in winter.

In 1978, it was to San Diego.
In 2000, it was to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

[RavVid]

Well I left Canada at -20 celcius and arrive back in Australia at +40.

In Melbourne +45 to +20 is not uncommon in the same day because it is just a wind shift from the hot North center to a wind from the Antarctic/Southern Ocean.

[purplepoppy]

Every British person knows the feeling of looking out of a plane window and seeing it getting cloudier and cloudier as you approach the uk.

[exitseven]

Must be like the Bermuda Triangle.

[Adventurer23]

I'm sure there's been bigger temperature swings that I can't remember, but one was during the first few days in April of 1997 when it was 24C/75F, then a thunderstorm ripped through and the next morning it was -6C/21F for a temp swing of 30 degrees celsius or 54 degrees fahrenheit. Although, I know in the plains/prairies they get even bigger temperature swings than that sometimes.

[Red-Blaze]

I live in a desert contry, we rarely get snow here
So going to swiden and jumping into an icey lake there was likely it for me
can't say temputres as it was a while back

[catiecatie]

Here is 6 degrees but feels like -10 degrees. I’ve experienced it lower at like -30 something and heat it was upper 100 degrees. Damn winter and summer. I like fall here though.

[exitseven]

When I was in college I flew to Florida on spring break to visit my brother. When I went back home it was 85 degrees when I got on the plane and when I got back home in upstate New Your it was 3 degrees.

[DryGermanGuy]

A weird African wind pushed 20 degrees warm air into Europe in January. One day later the temperature dropped to typical -5 degrees.

[Guy13]

Flying from Ottawa to Thailand... getting off a Qatar and then Thai plane with wool p-coat coat looked like a guy who has lost his mind.

[Likes2drive]

We’ve had some extreme’s like that here on Long Island but just imagine the extreme difference from the ground temperature to when you’re in a plane at maximum altitude of over 30,000 feet 😊 It’s usually 3 degrees less for every 1,000 feet

[Genie23]

It was 41°c during the day which got reduced to 16°C at night. It was very uncomfortable.

[KrakenAttackin]

Seriously? Definitely not an "outdoor" girl.

[Genie23]

You should talk to my friends and ask whether I am an outdoorsy or not and try asking or telling them that, lol. I would spend hours outdoor all the time but I stopped spending as much time outdoor often anymore since the COVID started. My friends and I would go on trips, trekking, at the beach and all often and we would spend all day together stay out until late night and sometimes even spent the whole night hangout near the sea shore, and the only thing thing that I cannot handle is sudden rise or dip in the temperature. I get sick often because of that. Being indoorsy and ourdoosy doesn't matter, your body is bound to be sensitive towards certain things. I am allergic to more than few things, so I avoid some of those things yet did other things and took meds to keep things in control.

So, yeah, other than allergies it's sudden weather/temperature changes is something that I'm not good at handling at. 🤷‍♀️

[Lyndsielee666]

I mean 97 to 124 the next day was pretty major Lmfao

[Adventurer23]

You must live in Death Valley. 😂

[Lyndsielee666]

@Adventurer23 lmfao close 😂

[Adventurer23]

@Lyndsielee666 So, you're in Near-Death Valley? 😋

[Lyndsielee666]

@Adventurer23 im near Palm Springs 😂

[Adventurer23]

@Lyndsielee666 Ah, that explains it then. Palm Springs gets as hot as Phoenix in the summer. Where I am in Canada, during the summer months it averages in the low 80s and "hot" days are in the 90s. 😂

[Lyndsielee666]

@Adventurer23 my kids plastic pool melted to my driveway last summer during the fire that almost burned my house down 😂 it was stupid hot

[Adventurer23]

@Lyndsielee666 Wow, that's nuts. I know it's been incredibly dry out west for years now. That's no joke.

On the topic of extreme weather: during the summer of 2021 there was a horrible heat event in western Canada where they had several days in a row well into the 100s and during the peak of it, the small town of Lytton, British Columbia set the all-time Canadian heat record with an air temperature of 121.3F, and the very next day 90% of the town burned to the ground due to forest fires. But that temperature was hotter than any all-time temperature recorded in 45 of the 50 states, including Texas (120F). It was insane. It was also the hottest temperature recorded on Earth that day, only behind Death Valley about 1,000 miles to the south (123F).

Luckily, where I live we don't get huge blasts of heat like that, as we're moderated by the cold water of the Great Lakes, as well as higher humidity levels. Even last summer our highest temperature was 98F in mid to late June, which was the hottest day we'd had in a good while here. Most summers the highest temp usually peaks at about 95-96F. The summers here are amazing, they're just not long enough. lol

[Lyndsielee666]

@Adventurer23 I remember that fire! Pretty sure we were getting smoke from it socal but a majority of the state was also burning at the same time 😞

[Adventurer23]

@Lyndsielee666 Yeah, the fires that summer were really bad. As bad as they were in the U. S., they were actually worse in Canada. During the height of the fires the smoke plume over North America spanned from the Gulf of Alaska in the Pacific to the North Atlantic and from above the Arctic circle down to Dallas. There were areas of the British Columbia coast where the sky was so dark and smokey that almost looked like dusk because the smoke was blotting out the sun. Even here, over 2,000 miles away from the worst fires, we had a couple of bad days where the moon one night was a dark orange and one day the smoke obscured the sun completely (it looked like white overcast), and the air had this acrid, almost sour smokey smell. It's like nothing I'd ever smelled before. It was nasty. But yeah, the last few years in particular have been pretty bad out west in both the U. S. and Canada. Stay safe down there!

[Lyndsielee666]

@Adventurer23 the one that burned this summer was legit half a mile from my house 😭 I can’t run my ac or heater or ash falls all over the inside of my house Lmfao

[Adventurer23]

@Lyndsielee666 Jeez, that must be terrifying! I never even thought about the ash getting sucked in by the HVAC system! I wonder if there would be a way to stick a 3M filter over the HVAC fan outside as like a pre-filter to keep the ash out? 🤔 But yeah, not being able to run your A/C sucks ash. lol

[shortster]

30°F in a single day. It was 52°F at 4 am; by noon it was 22°F. I can only imagine how much worse it would have been if the cold front came at night instead of the morning.

[Fireguy17]

It happens here in the midwest/frostbite falls quite often.
We call them pneumonia fronts.

[AngryCarl2]

I can't give you exact figures but it was getting on a plane in the miserable UK and getting off an hour and a half later in sunny Switzerland.

[NostalgiaSenpi]

In a span of 38 hours, we went from -10F to 60F this month.

[Degenerate]

Over 40 degrees Celsius ----> flying from Cuba to Canada

[MrJMM]

Ahem... From -16 celsius to 30 Celsius the next day.

[msc545]

This year in Southern California it has gotten down below 30°F in the night time where I live and over 100° Fahrenheit in the daytime the next day. That is a 70° or more change in temperature from night to day.

[Agape93]

Thus far, within a day and a half, 27⁰F to -41⁰

[Wilson3000]

Minus 6 and 49. Both are fucking murder.

[Leopard23]

-50.

[Anonymous]

127F in the shade. I was in Arizona.