British Guy Reacts to 10 Strangest Weather Events in US History

British Guy Reacts to 10 Strangest Weather Events in US History

In this video The British Guy (AKA Mr H and friends) Reacts to 10 Strangest Weather Events in US History

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The Strangest Weather Events in US History
We know Mother Nature is fickle, but occasionally she goes on a veritable rampage, dealing out hurricanes, floods, and extreme temperature swings. Strange weather events like these can spell disaster for those unlucky enough to be caught in them.

Lowest Temperature
The 2019 polar vortex brought bone-chilling temperatures to the Midwest—Milwaukee hit 21 below zero, Detroit shivered in minus 14 degrees, and Chicago experienced a chilly 23 below zero. But those temperatures seem almost balmy compared with the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States. On January 23, 1971, the mercury dropped to a staggering minus 80 degrees in Prospect Creek, Alaska.

Within the 48 contiguous states, the record for extreme cold was set on January 20, 1954, when Rogers Pass, Montana, hit a better-wear-an-extra-sweater temperature of 70 degrees below zero. But if you want to completely escape temperatures in the negatives, you’ll need to move to Hawaii, the only state that has never experienced sub-zero temperatures. The Mauna Kea Observatory on the big island of Hawaii recorded the state’s coldest-ever temperature of 12 degrees in 1979.

Highest Temperature
At the opposite extreme, the United States is no stranger to hot weather: All 50 states, even Alaska, have experienced temperatures topping 100 degrees, and extended periods of triple-digit heat are just a regular part of summer throughout the Southwest. But though you may think the record for highest temperature must have been set elsewhere in the world—after all, temperatures routinely hit the 120s in many areas of the Middle East—it’s actually the United States that holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth. Aptly named Death Valley hit a mind-melting high of 134 degrees on July 10, 1913.

If you prefer to do your sweating in the city, Phoenix, Arizona, is the place to be; it holds the record for high temperature in a large U.S. city. On June 29, 1994, the thermometer there topped off at 128 degrees.

Most Rainfall
While Portland and Seattle have reputations as rain-intensive cities, and in fact, both do experience overcast or drizzly skies on approximately 150 days of the year, neither city is anywhere near the top when it comes to record rainfall.

The West Maui Mountains of Hawaii hold the U.S. record for the most rain in a single month; over the month of March 1942, rain gauges there recorded 101 inches of rainfall. The same location holds the record for most annual rainfall in the United States, with a total of almost 705 inches in 1982.

But for the most rain in a 24-hour period, the town of Alvin, Texas, takes the prize, with an umbrella-breaking 43 inches of rain on July 25, 1979. Still, that’s not as severe as the 13.8 inches of rain that fell on Burnsville, West Virginia, in just one hour back on August 4, 1943. The flooding from the storm killed 23 people.

Highest Wind Speed
Not surprisingly, most of the highest wind speeds ever recorded in the United States happened during hurricanes. After all, just to qualify as a Category 1 hurricane, a tropical storm needs sustained wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour. But the wind was howling much harder than that during Category 5 Hurricane Andrew, which had a recorded wind speed of 177 miles per hour in 1992. Hurricane Camille, in 1969, reached estimated wind speeds nearly as high, but the official recording weather instruments were destroyed in the process. And while there were no weather-measuring instruments present at the time, it is estimated that the highest hurricane-driven wind speed in the United States occurred during the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which struck the Florida Keys with sustained winds that are believed to have reached 185 miles per hour.

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