From a Planalytics email today, some wild weather across the U.S.:
- There was a 105 degree F. difference in high temperatures between the -17 measured at Devils Lakes, North Dakota and the 88 degree reading at McAllen, Texas.
- Many cities across the Plains, Midwest, and Great Lakes experienced a 40-50 degree temperature drop within a six hour period along with storm force winds of 35-60 mph.
- In St. Louis — After reaching a record high temperature of 71 degrees at noon along with being placed within a Tornado watch, the storm front moved through shortly thereafter and within three hours, it was snowing with a howling wind out of the northwest gusting to 56 mph. By 6:00 PM, the thermometer read 20 degrees with a 50 mph wind, producing a wind chill value of three below zero.
- Believe it or not, the worst of this bitterly cold air remained anchored across Alberta and Saskatoon Canada where low temperatures were in the -30s and -40s this morning with one report of an unbelievable low of minus 51 degrees below zero.
- Talk about extreme contrasts; at 4:00 PM CST, it was snowing hard with the temperatures plummeting through the 20s at St Louis. Approximately 75 miles southeast of St Louis, near Mount Vernon, Illinois, there was a severe thunderstorm in progress with a tornado watch in effect. Temperatures in the 60s.
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