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The place I grew up in is one of the places marked on this map. At one point in time in the 90s we had one of the highest swings of temperature in a single day that had ever been recorded in a single place where we had nearly a 40 degree temperature difference between nighttime and daytime. It's also one of the highest diurnal temperature places. During the winter time, it often gets well below zero. And I believe the record set in the 30s was negative 43f degrees. In the hottest temperature in the summer has been well over 100, nearly 110. And for an area in the high desert, that is normal.
Are you talking C or F? Im pretty sure a 40 F degree temp swing happens every year in Minnesota, probably multiple times. The record in the us is 104 F in a single day, in Montana.
Yeah, I think the record where I'm from was somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 to 70 degrees in one day. And I spent two years in Minnesota and there weren't a lot of days where we had that were 40 degrees swing where it went from near freezing to 80s or 90s during the day while I was there at least.