May 2024 has already been noted as one of the hottest in the U.S., and with meteorological summer still to come, temps this year are expected to set even higher records.
from the Associated Press, more than 2,300 deaths due to excessive heat occurred in the U.S. in 2023, a record-breaking high. As alarming as those numbers are, that rate could skyrocket even further in 2024.But This trend persists through winter, too, as the contiguous U.S. just went through itsto identify the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in each state and Puerto Rico.
On the far western border of Arizona, Lake Havasu City saw the highest temperature in state history on June 29, 1994. But seven years earlier, the state’s largest snowfall was recorded on the extreme eastern side of Arizona.All-time lowest temperature: -29 F All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 25 inches
Millsboro is one of the two cities in the United States that holds the record for the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in a state. Also of interest was a significant East Coast cyclone in 1979 that brought record-breaking snowfall to the Mid-Atlantic states. Because of this, Dover received the most snowfall in the history of Delaware’s climate.
Rattlesnake Creek in Elmore County was recorded on Nov. 23, 1909, to have received the most rainfall of 7.17 inches in one day. And in 1967, the Anderson Ranch Dam, southeast of Boise, recorded 31 inches of snowfall in one 24-hour period.All-time lowest temperature: -38 F All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 36 inches
Hackberry, a community in Cameron Parish, witnessed the state’s heaviest rainfall between Aug. 28 and 29, 1962. A tropical depression that had first formed in the western Gulf of Mexico eventually struck the Texas and Louisiana border two days later before finally subsiding on Aug. 30, 1962.All-time lowest temperature: -50 F All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 40 inches
Hokah, a city in Houston County, had the state’s heaviest one-day rainfall on Aug. 19, 2007. The flood of 2007 claimed the lives of six people and also resulted in massive flooding in nearby counties.All-time lowest temperature: -19 F All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 18 inches New Hampshire’s “100-Hour Snowstorm of February 1969″ produced record snowfall for New Hampshire. The massive snowstorm affected the neighboring states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont.All-time lowest temperature: -34 F All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 29.7 inches
Parshall became intolerably frigid in February 1936 at -60 degrees Fahrenheit. This recording was made by a coal miner who had volunteered to be a weather observer, using a special mercury-thallium alloy thermometer because mercury-only thermometers would freeze before recording a temperature that low.All-time lowest temperature: -39 F
The blizzard of 1978 in Rhode Island delivered a historical record of the highest snowfall the state had ever experienced. The snowfall began at 10 a.m. Monday and didn’t stop for 36 hours. Around 55 inches of snow accumulated in different parts of the state—and 30 inches fell in Woonsocket in one 24-hour stretch of the blizzard.All-time highest temperature: 113 F All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.8 inches The summer 2012 heat wave was responsible for at least 82 deaths across the U.S.
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