No particular order...
Mar 93
Oct 11
Mar 01
Dec 08
Torn on 5th...May 06 rain, Jan 98, Feb 94, Jul 95 heat, Jan 94 cold, Gloria 85, April Fool's 97, Feb 01, Jan 11...
Tough one
I put in a request for data from Limestone (and some other sites) and had no luck with beating the -52F or -54F. If you want to look at the data for the fun of it (while it's temporarily still available) here are the links.
HUL https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72703399999-1943-02_4293847657710dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72703399999-1943-02_3085127657709dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72703399999-1943-02_5776307657714dat.html
PQI https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72713014604-1943-02_1867547657715dat.html
BGR https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72607099999-1943-02_7875057657716dat.html
LIZ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72712514623-1957-01_3553737658774dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72712514623-1982-01_9431147658772dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72712514623-1984-01_757727658775dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/99999994645-2009-01_7434377658776dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/99999994645-2009-01_6307047658777dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72712514623-1980-12_791517658784dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72712514623-1981-01_8358887658786dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/72712514623-1988-01_839277658787dat.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/orders/isd/99999994645-2004-01_8407227658804dat.html
Yeah...before automation you had mainly hourly obs. MWN had all analog recording instruments and a thorough climate record so they had all of the paper charts of instantaneous obs saved. The 1-min ASOS data archive goes back to the early 2000s so if there’s a record wind chill since then you could look up those and find the precise coldest minute. You’re pretty much stuck with the hourlies before then.
Found an article from WMUR interviewing someone from the Mt Washington observatory and apparently the wind chill reach -107F during that Jan 2004 cold shot while the temp was -44F. And yeah, that Whiteface -114F isn't accurate. To beat those MWN numbers you need to do it with colder temps. At a certain point stronger and stronger wind magnitude only creates a negligibly lower wind chill.
Isn't that the point of making it 6hrs? To allow for some compaction?
I've said it before, but I don't like penalizing 1"+/hr rates on the tail end of large, long duration storms. In LES land...if you pull 20" in 12hrs, clear, and then another 20" in 12hrs, but the depth only increases another 6"....does that mean you should have 40" or 26"? If both 12hr samples had the same rates with the same amount is it fair to report it as 20" for the first 12hrs and only 6" for the last 12hr?
I'll give Pete B credit for explaining that on the air. Some here like to call him a clown for not always weenieing out, but in this instance he "gets" it and that was a nice little shout-out to Ray.