Favorite Places with Extreme W...

If you could experience any kind of extreme weather, what would it be?

Here is a list of some of some of my most favorite extreme weather around the world thanks to Christopher Burt’s fascinating book “Weather Extremes.”

…A hot summer day in Death Valley, California, where the average high at Greenland Ranch in July is 115F with an average low of 87F.

…A pleasant summer on the California North Coast at Eureka, where the highest temperature ever recorded has been 87F.

…A heat burst on the American Plains…like the one at Cherokee, Oklahoma on July 11, 1909, where the mercury rose to 136F at 3 a.m., thanks to a collapsing thunderstorm.

…A winter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the average temperature during the winter months is 17.3F.

…A winter in Truckee, California, where over 203 inches of snow falls each year on average.

…A lake effect snowburst somewhere on Bennett’s Ridge in New York, where 51 inches of snow has fallen in just 16 hours.

…Monsoon season in Charrapunji, India, where the average annual rainfall is 467.4 inches.

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