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I could be wrong but for Vancouver, Washington, I think the highest was 108F on July 29, 2009 and 9F on December 8, 2013. It's kind of funny. On the west coast, the record highs are a greater departure from the average than the record lows are departures from average. Quite the opposite of anywhere east of the Rockies. Kind of Australian looking.
While I understand the Chicago metropolitan area is very spread out and has 10 million people compared to our 260k people, the amount of weather stations can allow you to cherrypick the best that suits you. I'm not saying you've doing it, but it's possible. The city of Chicago spans for 227 sq mi over land, the City of Turku 95 sq mi, most of which is almost unhabited. The Turku urban area spans for 98 sq mi, while the Chicagoland area spans for 2,120 sq mi, and quite understandibly has a lot more weather stations.
Maybe I should include half of the stations including amateur ones in my region Finland Proper to my "metro area", as that would the same size as Chicagoland. Otherwise it puts me in a very unfavourable position.
Same with the London metropolitan area, they can choose from several stations spanning tens of miles in radii, while I rely on one single official station, Turku Artukainen.
Well for many cases, the "official" thermometer might not accurately represent a large section of a city or metro area. This is the case here as proximity to the lake which would impact a particular station. If you live near the lake than a lakeshore station would best represent you. If you live in the far south suburbs like I do, than an inland station would be more indicative of my climate nirmals.
Our current "official" station is ORD. It's pretty well known around local meteorological circles that MDW is the better station to represent the city itself.
Wunderground's Jeff Masters made a point of it back in July of 2012
For NY State as a whole, I know that -37F (-38C) was achieved by Watertown (KART) in 2014, and also by Saranac Lake (KSLK) in 2011. The hottest was probably 106F (41C) in NYC in 2011.
If we go back to 1994, then Watertown reached -43F (-42C) that year:
For Geneva, the coldest was 10F (-12C) in 2009, and the hottest was 103F (39C) in 2015. In Zurich the coldest was -2F (-19C) in 2012, and the warmest 100F (37C) in 2015.
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Yukon:
Stewart Crossing in 2005 = -55C/-67F
If that was the coldest in Canada, then the coldest (officially recorded) temperature in North America since 2000 was the -72F (-58C) which occurred in Chicken AK in February of 2008: w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=pafg
Catamarca in 2009: 47ºC
Perito Moreno in 2000: -25.7ºC (official)
Alto RÃo Senguer in 2001: -30ºC (unofficial)
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Otherwise it puts me in a very unfavourable position.
