Once in a lifetime event

Posted at 7:06 AM on January 30, 2008 by Paul Huttner (1 Comments)

It's about zero in your freezer. It's -14 outside your front door in the metro this morning.

Monday's arctic front on steroids plunged temperatures so rapidly; it rivals the biggest 24 hour calendar day temperature change in on record for many locations. In the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, a nearly instant freeze grips New York City. It felt like that in Minnesota yesterday.

In the Twin Cities Tuesday, we plunged from 36 degrees at midnight, to -13 by 11pm. That's a 49 degree plunge, the biggest daily temp change in at least 23 years, and rivals the biggest calendar day temperature change of 51 degrees in 1903.

La Crosse tied the record for the biggest daily temperature change at 53 degrees! Rochester had the 6th largest change on record.

So congratulations. You've just endured one of the most unique weather events of a lifetime in Minnesota.

Let's hope so anyway.

La Crosse record temp plunge

PH

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Comments (1)

Was The Day After Tomorrow supposed to be a comedy?

Hey - there's an idea for a Jet Streaming podcast, perhaps around the time of the Oscars - weather as a major character or force in movies. This could a meteorological take on the science in movies such as the one mentioned above, The Perfect Storm, and Twister. There are likely others, but I just can't think of them now.

The last two days of weather is one of the reasons I love living here. From a high of 43 on Monday to a low of -14 this morning with wind chills below -30. Such dynamics! And what else is going on in the atmosphere to make conditions and changes like that possible?

Posted by Chris B. Critter | January 30, 2008 11:31 AM

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