charlieb wrote:
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(if you want temperature extremes - head for Central Texas -
30 degree low, 105 degree high the next day, then hail the next
day followed by a week of cloudless 100 -107 degree days. Then
there's a frost. Wait a day or two and you've got lightening storms
you can't imagine 'til you've experienced it, with torrential
rains - blowing horizontally by 40-50 mph winds. Did I mention
the wasps and locust? I think God does all his testing for
things to get sinners' attention in Central Texas)

In general, don't disagree, but that's a pretty apt description of
anywhere on the High Plains from W TX to SK, not _just_ wherever you are
in TX...

While extremes are common here, too, (SW KS) along w/ all the other
niceties you mention, I'd like to see the weather record of the day that
had a 30F low w/ a 105F high... That's a TX exaggeration, I'm
thinking!

(Greatest 24 hr swing I can recall is from roughly 100F to low 40s
during spring chinooks or cold fronts.) I can't recall ever having an
actual frost on the day of or before a 100-deg buster.

Wonder if the NWS has a searchable archive for that kind of trivia???
Never actually looked for it, but would be kinda' interesting...

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