Amid all the talk about record heat, parts of the United States have been experiencing unusually cold temperatures for this time of year. Several locations along the Eastern seaboard and through the Mid-west have set low-for-the-date temperature records.
“A cold snap across parts of the Eastern U.S. has broken or tied a myriad of long-standing temperature records,” Electroverse reports. “The NWS issued early-season frost advisories for many, with crops at risk.”
According to Electroverse, more than 100 locations set new or tied existing for the date temperature records from September 7 through 9, among them: Charleston, WV recorded a temperature 43℉ on September 8, breaking the previous record of 45℉, from 1944; Parkersburg, WV, tied its record low of 42℉, set in 1986, and with a temperature of just 55℉ on September 8; Central Park, NY came within three degrees of breaking its record for that date of 52℉ set in 1871, 153 years ago. Central Park’s September 9 temperature was 7 degrees below the normal average low for the month.
Further west, Cincinnati, Ohio tied its previous record low temperature for the dates of September 8 and September 9, with temperatures of 44 and 43 degrees, respectively. The previous record for September 8 was set in 1956. The National Weather Service reports that Little Rock, Arkansas saw its temperatures fall to just 55℉ on September 9, just three degrees above the record low for the date, and 11 degrees below the average low for the date. And Fox 4 in Kansas City reported:
There were some areas over the weekend that dropped into the 30s on the Missouri side. No reports of any frost out there but it was cool for sure
While we didn’t set any record lows, there were a bunch this morning east of the region where it was still cool. We bottomed out at 46° yesterday morning, a rarity for the first 10 days of September.
There have only been 10 days with lows that cool or cooler in KC weather record history. Think about it this way… that is 10 potential days over 135 years or so, a pool of 1,350 days, and only 10 have been 46° or cooler. That 46° yesterday was the second-coolest for the date as well.