All-time April record heat

[famartin]

RECORD EVENT REPORT...AMENDED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
849 PM PDT SUN APR 22 2012

...ALL-TIME APRIL RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES SET IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS 
ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA ON SUNDAY...

                               OLD RECORD   OLD ALL-TIME
SITE              NEW RECORD  FOR APRIL 22  APRIL RECORD
ELKO AIRPORT          87       82 IN 1934  86 ON 4/29/1992, 4/30/1981
ELY AIRPORT           84       77 IN 1987  82 ON 4/28/1992
EUREKA AIRPORT        86       78 IN 1987  83 ON 4/27/2000, 4/29/1992
WINNEMUCCA AIRPORT    90       84 IN 2009  90 ON 4/30/1981

                               OLD RECORD   INTACT ALL-TIME
SITE              NEW RECORD  FOR APRIL 22   APRIL RECORD
TONOPAH AIRPORT       86       80 IN 2009   88 ON 4/30/1981

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=lkn&sid=LKN&pil=RER

[MN Transplant]

Making up for missing out in March, I guess.

[snowmanwx]

Erick, Oklahoma, hit 105°F today. That's an all-time record. Altus, Oklahoma, also tied its all-time April record at 105°F.

[brettjrob]

Wonder what the nationwide all-time April record is. Knox City, TX (about halfway between Wichita Falls and Abilene) had to be pushing it today at 111 F.

[snowmanwx]

Ouch. The state record for Texas is 113°F on 20 April 1984 at Catarina, Dimmit County, Texas. Last year, the temperature reached 110°F in nearby Laredo 2. The national record is 118°F on 25 April 1898 at Volcano Springs, California. That same day, the temperature reached 117°F at Salton. Since the formation of the Salton Sea, however, these temperatures are highly unlikely to recur. (The town of Salton now lies some 40 feet underwater, and Volcano Springs apparently now lies at the lake shore.) Outside the Salton Sea region, 113°F appears as a national record, set in 1898 at Parker, Arizona, and tied in 1946 at Death Valley, California, and again in 1984 in Catarina, Texas.

I haven't the opportunity to look through all the records, so these might not be current.

[aslkahuna]

Two things about the Salton Sea-the first being that it's the largest lake withing California totally (Tahoe is shared with NV). Secondly, it was formed by an engineering project gone awry in the early 1900's when an attempt to build a canal from the CO river into the Imperial Valley was overwhelmed by floodwaters from the CO River which drained into the Salton Sink filling it and creating the Salton Sea. The winters of 1904-05 and in 1907 were especially wet in the SW US. In fact, the former is the wettest winter on record in AZ. Another tank town in the Sink named Amos once hit 130F for its highest temperature and the only known such reading in the US outside of Death Valley.

Steve