It’s not winter rarity but we are in a 2 week oscillation pattern . Gets mild after this and then turns cold about 1/7 and that push looks like very cold air pouring down on us from PA/NY instead of rollover cold from Midwest
Yes this is not the top but it’s number 4,5,6 or something. I did not break my records for 1,3,6 hour drop rate but with 54 at midnight I’m going to break my 1983 record of 40 degrees in 12 hours.
14.5 at 6:30 and definite slick spots driving around here Need to be alert to this is not a typical night and if you see shiny you are not seeing things, it’s ice
We chatted 83 earlier, I was driving from DC to Salisbury. I stood in shade 10 feet away from choptank and faced the wind and thought “this is what it’s like to die “
I was driving on the old Choptank River bridge around noon Christmas Day and it was about 20 with winds right up the river, most whitecaps I’ve ever seen on it, and as winds cranked to 50 the spray starting freezing on the road deck and they closed it and super salted it and reopened. I never saw that before or after.
And MN might not some of those be cold mornings but a much milder afternoon as opposed to arctic blast plummeting the high?
I wonder if NWS has top 10 temperature drops for 1,3,6,12,24 hours.