donsutherland1 Posted Tuesday at 11:15 AM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 11:15 AM 1 hour ago, GaWx said: Hey Charlie, I looked and looked at this and still can’t see how this doesn’t have errors. What am I missing? Am I having a brain fart? Is this the # of days within March 1-22, 2026, with highs of 80+? I came back and looked again to see if my brain had been missing something. I still don’t see how a good portion of the #s on the map aren’t off. Is this mislabeled? I believe that's the ranking, not the number of days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted Tuesday at 11:27 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 11:27 AM 9 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said: I believe that's the ranking, not the number of days. Thanks, Don. Now it makes sense if the words “ranking of” are added before # of days of 80+. @chubbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chubbs Posted Tuesday at 11:39 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 11:39 AM 1 hour ago, GaWx said: Hey Charlie, I looked and looked at this and still can’t see how this doesn’t have errors. What am I missing? Am I having a brain fart? Is this the # of days within March 1-22, 2026, with highs of 80+? I came back and looked again to see if my brain had been missing something. I still don’t see how a good portion of the #s on the map aren’t off. Is this mislabeled? I should have been clearer. The chart I posted is the ranking of the number of days over 80, with #1 being the highest. Below is the number of 80+ days on which the ranking is based. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted Tuesday at 03:21 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:21 PM In addition to Fairbanks, cities such as Anchorage and Yellowknife, NW Territories as well as the area in between and surrounding have a chance to have their all time record coldest Marches. That’s ~2,000 miles long and ~400 miles wide area or ~800K square miles, which is ~18% of the combined square miles in Canada and Alaska or ~25% of the size of the lower 48! Does anyone have a link to monthly records for Canadian cities and more specifically Yellowknife? Anyone have a link to maps showing historic temperature anomalies by month for Canada like we have for the US? Yellowknife in March of 2026: Mean temp March 1-23: -26C Normal for entire month: -16C March 2026 so far: https://www.predictwind.com/weather/canada/northwest-territories/yellowknife/march Normals in C: https://weatherspark.com/y/2362/Average-Weather-in-Yellowknife-Northwest-Territories-Canada-Year-Round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted Tuesday at 04:47 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 04:47 PM 1 hour ago, GaWx said: In addition to Fairbanks, cities such as Anchorage and Yellowknife, NW Territories as well as the area in between and surrounding have a chance to have their all time record coldest Marches. That’s ~2,000 miles long and ~400 miles wide area or ~800K square miles, which is ~18% of the combined square miles in Canada and Alaska or ~25% of the size of the lower 48! Does anyone have a link to monthly records for Canadian cities and more specifically Yellowknife? Anyone have a link to maps showing historic temperature anomalies by month for Canada like we have for the US? Yellowknife in March of 2026: Mean temp March 1-23: -26C Normal for entire month: -16C March 2026 so far: https://www.predictwind.com/weather/canada/northwest-territories/yellowknife/march Normals in C: https://weatherspark.com/y/2362/Average-Weather-in-Yellowknife-Northwest-Territories-Canada-Year-Round Here's Yellowknife's coldest March: https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/monthly_data_e.html?hlyRange=1953-01-01|2013-01-17&dlyRange=1942-07-01|2013-01-16&mlyRange=1942-01-01|2007-11-01&climate_id=2204100&Prov=NT&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2026&selRowPerPage=25&Line=0&searchMethod=contains&Month=3&Day=23&txtStationName=yellowknife&timeframe=3&Year=1964 That translates into a monthly mean temperature of -17.6°F. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted Tuesday at 05:20 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:20 PM 39 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said: Here's Yellowknife's coldest March: https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/monthly_data_e.html?hlyRange=1953-01-01|2013-01-17&dlyRange=1942-07-01|2013-01-16&mlyRange=1942-01-01|2007-11-01&climate_id=2204100&Prov=NT&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2026&selRowPerPage=25&Line=0&searchMethod=contains&Month=3&Day=23&txtStationName=yellowknife&timeframe=3&Year=1964 That translates into a monthly mean temperature of -17.6°F. Thanks, Don! This tells me that Yellowknife won’t be as cold this month as it was in March of 1964. Unlike 2026, that month was post El Nino, opposite of 2026. That month was also quite cold further N, N of 80N (<-30C): Compare that to the current March so far, which is ~-20C or >10C warmer!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GaWx Posted Friday at 12:40 AM Share Posted Friday at 12:40 AM It looks like that finally Phoenix didn’t 100. It was “only” 99 today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted Friday at 12:44 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 12:44 AM The most extreme March heatwave on record in the United States is now concluding. Additional monthly records were set today. Below is a selection of March records that matched or beat April records during the unprecedented heatwave. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted Friday at 04:30 AM Share Posted Friday at 04:30 AM Coldest ever recorded in March anywhere on the globe occurred yesterday in Vostok, Antarctica with -76.4C or -105.5F! https://www.facebook.com/MikeCollierWx/photos/big-time-coldearlier-today-vostok-station-in-antarctica-recorded-a-temperature-o/1462495788561020/? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chubbs Posted Friday at 10:42 AM Share Posted Friday at 10:42 AM Solar uptake continued to accelerate in Africa in the last month before the energy crisis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago On 3/24/2026 at 11:21 AM, GaWx said: In addition to Fairbanks, cities such as Anchorage and Yellowknife, NW Territories as well as the area in between and surrounding have a chance to have their all time record coldest Marches. That’s ~2,000 miles long and ~400 miles wide area or ~800K square miles, which is ~18% of the combined square miles in Canada and Alaska or ~25% of the size of the lower 48! Does anyone have a link to monthly records for Canadian cities and more specifically Yellowknife? Anyone have a link to maps showing historic temperature anomalies by month for Canada like we have for the US? Yellowknife in March of 2026: Mean temp March 1-23: -26C Normal for entire month: -16C March 2026 so far: https://www.predictwind.com/weather/canada/northwest-territories/yellowknife/march Normals in C: https://weatherspark.com/y/2362/Average-Weather-in-Yellowknife-Northwest-Territories-Canada-Year-Round Followup: Fairbanks is progged to have its coldest DJFM on record with it ~-13.1F! The current coldest DJFM: 1965-6: -12.9F El Niño 1970-1: -11.6F La Niña 1933-4: -11.1F La Niña 1917-8: -10.6F La Niña By a margin of 2F, they’re progged to have their coldest March on record at ~-8.6F! This feat is extra amazing because the Arctic has warmed the most due to GW! Link to data that allowed me to calculate this out: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=afg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago 9 hours ago, GaWx said: Followup: Fairbanks is progged to have its coldest DJFM on record with it ~-13.1F! The current coldest DJFM: 1965-6: -12.9F El Niño 1970-1: -11.6F La Niña 1933-4: -11.1F La Niña 1917-8: -10.6F La Niña By a margin of 2F, they’re progged to have their coldest March on record at ~-8.6F! This feat is extra amazing because the Arctic has warmed the most due to GW! Link to data that allowed me to calculate this out: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=afg Using a chart inspired by Jeff Berardelli's return-time charts, here's how Fairbanks would look for March 2026: And December-March (cases prior to 1911-12 were excluded due to the number of missing days during the 1905-06 through 1910-11 period): 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted 9 minutes ago Share Posted 9 minutes ago 1 hour ago, donsutherland1 said: Using a chart inspired by Jeff Berardelli's return-time charts, here's how Fairbanks would look for March 2026: And December-March (cases prior to 1911-12 were excluded due to the number of missing days during the 1905-06 through 1910-11 period): This record cold March at Fairbanks is even more amazing when you consider how much above normal it was in the Arctic (80+N) in March: You can see evidence of this stark contrast of cold anomalies to the warm anomalies to the north in the Arctic as well as to the south in the lower 48 on this for March 1-17: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormchaserchuck1 Posted 1 minute ago Share Posted 1 minute ago Good contrast between the SW, US and Alaska setting up this Winter. A little more than typical index-based correlations. I wonder if such a thing will flux the PNA in future years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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