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This is the first time since 1945 that the Yukon has gone three years in a row without seeing a temperature above 87F/30.6C, and back in the 40s there were hardly any weather stations up there.
There's also Mount Isa, pop 22,000 Jan high 36.3C (Nov and Dec are hotter though, 36.4C and 37.1C respectively). It might be the only other one in Australia.
Here's one for you. The city of Happy Valley - Goose Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador records the province's most extreme high temperature 1/3 of the time. No other city does even 5% of the time. And yet, this city isn't even in the top 10 in the province in terms of average daily July maximum. The top spot for that goes to Port Blandford, which has only ever recorded the summer's hottest temperature extreme one time!
Warmest places in Newfoundland & Labrador based on average July maximums (1981-2010):
PORT BLANDFORD = 23.2C (73.8F)
RATTLING BRK NORRIS ARM = 22.9C (73.2F)
GRAND FALLS = 22.7C (72.9F)
GAMBO = 22.7C (72.9F)
CORNER BROOK = 22.7C (72.8F)
POINT LEAMINGTON = 22.6C (72.8F)
WOODDALE BISHOP'S FALLS = 22.6C (72.7F)
DEER LAKE A = 22.6C (72.6F)
INDIAN BAY B.B. = 22.4C (72.3F)
SOUTH BROOK = 22.3C (72.2F)
LETHBRIDGE = 22.2C (72F)
CHARLESTON = 22.1C (71.9F)
BOTWOOD = 22.1C (71.8F)
CLARENVILLE = 22C (71.6F)
ROCKY HARBOUR CS = 22C (71.5F)
EXPLOITS DAM = 21.9C (71.5F)
DEER LAKE = 21.9C (71.4F)
GLENWOOD = 21.7C (71.1F)
TERRA NOVA NAT PARK HQ = 21.7C (71F)
BUTLERVILLE = 21.6C (70.9F)
GANDER INT'L A = 21.6C (70.9F)
GALLANTS = 21.6C (70.8F)
BAY D'ESPOIR GEN STN = 21.6C (70.8F)
HOLYROOD GEN STN = 21.5C (70.7F)
ROBERT'S ARM = 21.5C (70.7F)
CARMANVILLE = 21.5C (70.6F)
SPRINGDALE GB FARM = 21.4C (70.6F)
CORMACK = 21.4C (70.4F)
BLACK DUCK = 21.2C (70.1F)
BUCHANS = 21.1C (70F)
GOOSE A = 20.9C (69.7F)
"Goose A" is the airport at Happy Valley - Goose Bay.
How often have each of these places been the hottest place since 1981? Here you go...
PORT BLANDFORD = 1
RATTLING BRK NORRIS ARM = 2
GRAND FALLS = 0
GAMBO = 0
CORNER BROOK = 0
POINT LEAMINGTON = 3
WOODDALE BISHOP'S FALLS = 1
DEER LAKE A = 0
INDIAN BAY B.B. = 0
SOUTH BROOK PASADENA = 0
LETHBRIDGE = 1
CHARLESTON = 0
BOTWOOD = 0
CLARENVILLE = 0
ROCKY HARBOUR CS = 0
EXPLOITS DAM = 0
DEER LAKE = 0
GLENWOOD = 0
TERRA NOVA NAT PARK HQ = 0
BUTLERVILLE = 0
GANDER INT'L A = 0
GALLANTS = 0
BAY D'ESPOIR GEN STN = 0
HOLYROOD GEN STN = 0
ROBERT'S ARM = 0
CARMANVILLE = 1
SPRINGDALE GB FARM = 0
CORMACK = 0
BLACK DUCK = 0
BUCHANS = 0
GOOSE A = 13
Rovaniemi, at the Arctic Circle will have it's second consecutive "Dfb" year, and the 4th out of the 6 last years.
Oulu, at 65˚N has a September average of 9.84˚C since 1991, and in the next normals will be one of the world's northernmost Dfb's.
In 1975 Fairbanks had the following mean monthly temperatures with departures from 1906 to 1974 means in square brackets:
January: -15.5˚F or -26.4˚C [-3.7˚F]
February: -3.4˚F or -19.7˚C [-1.4˚F]
March: 12.6˚F or -10.8˚C [+3.6˚F]
April: 30.5˚F or -0.8˚C [+1.3˚F]
May: 53.5˚F or 11.9˚C [+6.3˚F]
hottest May to that point, beating 53.1˚F in May 1960
June: 63.4˚F or 17.4˚C [+4.7˚F]
July: 68.4˚F or 20.2˚C [+7.9˚F]
hottest month of twentieth century, beating June 1913 (when Hudson Stuck climbed Mount McKinley) by 0.1˚F
August: 56.0˚F or 13.3˚C [+0.7˚F]
September: 45.8˚F or 7.7˚C [+1.7˚F]
October: 23.9˚F or -4.5˚C [-2.1˚F]
November: -8.0˚F or -22.2˚C [-11.1˚F]
sixth-coldest November to that point behind 1927, 1963, 1917, 1955, 1932 and 1904
December: -16.0˚F or -26.7˚C [-7.4˚F]
Annual Mean: 25.9˚F or -3.4˚C [+0.2˚F]
Fairbanks’ 1975 climate, even with an annual mean of -3.4˚C, equivalent to being well in the widespread discontinuous permafrost zone, would still qualify as “humid continental” with four months well over 10˚C. It has long struck me that such a climate is extremely unusual, and does not occur on a regular basis. Even in the most hypercontinental regions of Siberia and Manchuria, nowhere has a Dwb climate (humid continental with dry winter) and an annual mean below -1.0˚C (sporadic permafrost), and no Dfb climate anywhere extends colder than an annual mean of around 1.0˚C.
Rovaniemi, at the Arctic Circle will have it's second consecutive "Dfb" year, and the 4th out of the 6 last years.
Oulu, at 65N has a September average of 9.84C since 1991, and in the next normals will be one of the world's northernmost Dfb's.
Bodø (67 17 N 14 24 E) inside the Arctic Circle will in the new normal almost certain have 4 months with mean above 10C (Jun - Sep). The mean of the coldest month will be ca -1.5C. This might still not be the northernmost Cfb (or Dfb is you prefer 0C in coldest month) as that might be Svolvær. But it will be the northernmost city of some size (pop 50,000).
In 2013, Bodø recorded 5 months with mean above 10C.
Record low is -18.5C.
The coldest “humid continental” climate in North America is Island Lake, Manitoba averages 4 months above 10C/50F, and has an annual mean of 0.4˚C/30.8˚F.
Palmer and Big River Lakes are the coldest places in Alaska that fits the "humid continental" climate. The annual mean in both places is 4.9˚C/38.9˚F. These are also the northernmost places in North America that fit this category.
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