From record chilling wind chills to relentless heat waves and endless days of rain and sun, 2023 has had its share of adverse weather events.
We’ve gone back and compiled some of the more unusual weather records and events that happened last year to prove Mother Nature always has a few tricks up her sleeve.
Jan 10: Toledo, Ohio, received 0.84 inches of rain, which may sound innocuous. However, it will decline as the longest daily weather record of the year will be broken. The city’s old daily rainfall record for January 10 is 0.83 inches, set in 1872 – a record that has stood for 151 years.
Jan. 20: Three weeks of atmospheric rivers in California are calculated at 32 trillion gallons of water after an average of 11 inches of rain and the equivalent of snow fell across the state.
That’s enough to fill the Rose Bowl 210,000 times.
The wettest place was Humboldt County along the Northern California coast at 65.78 inches.
Feb. 4: Mt. Washington in New Hampshire recorded an extremely cold -108.2 degree wind chill, setting a national record. The temperature was -47 degrees, with a wind speed of 89 mph.
The temperature then “warmed” to -45 degrees with 115 mph winds.
Feb. 4: Boston recorded a wind chill of -39 degrees, marking the city’s coldest wind chill on record.
A flooded neighborhood in Merced, California on January 10, 2023 due to rain carried by an atmospheric river. Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images
The ambient temperature dropped to -10 degrees – the city’s coldest day since it dropped to -12 degrees in January 1957.
February 22: Portland, Oregon, received 10.8 inches of snow – their second snowiest day on record.
March 1: A week of relentless atmospheric rivers in California dropped an incredible 144 inches of snow — 12 feet — over six days on Huntington Lake.
March 1: Tucson, Arizona, at 1.5 inches, ends up with more seasonal snow than Washington and Philadelphia.
March 15: Los Angeles and San Francisco have had more rain (24.08 and 27.25 inches, respectively) than Seattle (22.98) since Oct. 1.
March 21: Peak gusts in San Francisco reach 65 mph.
It was the 11th day since the start of the year with wind gusts of more than 53 mph in the city, topped by a gust of 77 mph on March 14.
Downed trees in Montebello, California after a tornado touched down on March 22, 2023. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images
March 22: An EF-1 tornado hits Los Angeles – the strongest tornado to hit the LA metro area in 40 years.
March 24-28: An outbreak of severe weather in the Southeast triggered 385 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, 66 Tornado Warnings (including 4 Tornado Emergencies) and 46 Flash Flood Warnings.
March 30: Denver warms from 32 degrees to 65 degrees in 75 minutes.
April 1: A line of severe thunderstorms moving from eastern Ohio to western Pennsylvania recorded movement at 90 mph.
April 4: A record 785 inches of seasonal snowfall was measured at Snowbird. They would end the season with an astounding 838 inches of snow total.
April 3-4: Casper, Wyoming, recorded its snowiest day ever – 26.7 inches on April 3 – and the two-day storm total of 37.4 inches through April 4 was the city’s largest snowstorm.
A man walks through a flooded street in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 14, 2023. AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File
April 12: The skies opened up over Fort Lauderdale in a historic deluge that brought more than 2 feet of rain in one day.
The rain gauge at the airport failed, but a nearby gauge captured 22.5 inches.
The rain was confirmed as the wettest 24-hour period in Florida state history.
April 13: An unseasonably warm pattern in the north allows The Toronto Blue Jays will open their first roof at the Rogers Center retractable roof since the stadium opened in 1992.
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April 25: For the third time in history, Portland, Maine, will only have a temperature spread of 1 degree, with a high of 44 degrees and a low of 43 degrees
However, 32 other cities in the US managed to achieve the same performance in 2023, including Detroit; Duluth, Minnesota; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Fort Wayne, Indiana.
April 28: Seattle hits 80 degrees, marking the first time in 40 years that the city has had its first 70-degree and 80-degree day on the same date.
May 1: Several cities set records for the lowest atmospheric pressure recorded in May, including Boston (983.6 mb), Montreal (981.2 mb) and New York City (982.1 mb).
May 3: Herman, Michigan, received 52 inches of snow in a multi-day storm – 48 inches of which fell in the first two days of May, breaking the state record for May snowfall.
May 12: Nebraska sets a state record with 50 Tornado Warnings issued on the same day. The previous record was 47, which was set on May 22, 2004.
May 31: “Sunny” San Diego ranks as the cloudiest city in the Continental US in May, averaging 82.5% daily cloud cover.
June 17: The FOX Forecast Center says that for five consecutive days, hail measuring at least 4 inches in diameter, unusually large for the South in June, fell on communities in Oklahoma, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas.
That includes one rock in Mississippi that measured 4.88 inches, making it the second-largest hailstone found in the state’s history.
A woman holds a large hailstone found in Shamrock, Texas on June 13, 2023. Jana Houser/Facebook
June 21: A gust of 91 mph at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston was the strongest gust recorded there since the airport opened in 1969.
The previous record was 82 mph, measured during 2008’s Hurricane Ike.
June 29: Los Angeles fails to reach 80 degrees – a record 60 days in a row, failing to reach 80 degrees in May and June.
Las Vegas also failed to reach 100 degrees for a record 291 consecutive days. The Desert Southwest will make up for it in July.
July 18-19: Mayfield, Kentucky, sets a state record for 24-hour rainfall with 11.28 inches.
July 30: Phoenix reaches at least 110 degrees for the 31st straight day, extending the record it broke just 13 days earlier.
July 31: Phoenix notched its hottest month on record with an average temperature of 102.7 degrees.
It became the first major US city with an average monthly temperature of more than 100 degrees.
It ranks as the 21st hottest month on record across the planet between Salmi, Russia and Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia.
August 8: Colorado set a new state hail record with a stone measuring 5.25 inches found near the town of Kirk.
August 9: Los Angeles gets its first August rainfall record since 2014.
Before 2023, of the 4,500 August days in the record books, measurable precipitation (≥0.01 inch) was recorded on only 59 of them.
The upcoming remnants of Hurricane Hilary will then add three more dates to that total.
A car is stuck in floodwater brought by Tropical Storm Hilary on August 20, 2023. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
August 16: Columbia, South Carolina, recorded an 88 mph gust at its airport – the strongest gust the airport has measured since it opened in 1947.
August 18: The first Tropical Storm Watch is issued for Southern California ahead of Hurricane Hilary.
August 20: Death Valley, California, receives 2.20 inches of rain – one of the wettest days on record. The valley will then be filled with a temporary lake.
August 21: Oklahoma The Mesonet network recorded a dew point of 85.14 in Jay – the third time the network’s all-time state record has been broken in eight days.
August 21: Remnants of Hurricane Harold keep Austin, Texas’ high temperature below 100 degrees, finally ending a streak of 45 consecutive days in the triple digits and breaking the old record of 27 days set in 2011.
August 24: Chicago hits 100 degrees for the first time since 2012. Houston reaches 109 degrees – tied for hottest day of all time.
August 30: Victoria, Texas, managed to set a record high (105 degrees) and a record low (62 degrees) on the same date.
A woman walks through a flooded street in Brooklyn during rain brought by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
September 26: New York City experiences 73 hours of rain out of a possible 88 hours after Tropical Storm Ophelia.
September 30: With only 0.15 inches of rain during the summer, Phoenix experienced its driest monsoon on record.
Oct. 4: Burlington, Vermont, hit 86 degrees, marking not only the hottest October temperature on record but it was also hotter than any day the city recorded in August.
Oct. 20: Tucson, Arizona, reaches 100 degrees, the latest 100-degree reading on record.
Oct 26: Worland, Wyoming, drops to -3 degrees, breaking the city’s previous record low of 20 degrees. That was the largest daily low temperature decline of the year.
Police officers assist motorists stuck on the FDR Drive in Manhattan September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Children walk through a flooded path in Prospect Park South, Brooklyn September 29, 2023. Stephen Yang for the NY Post
Oct. 31: With 2 inches of snow on the ground in Minneapolis this morning, it’s officially the most snow the city has ever seen on Halloween (although in 1991, snow fell after the official measurement time on Halloween).
November 17: Fort Lauderdale jumps to nearly 109 inches of annual rainfall, not only breaking the all-time annual record but becoming the wettest major city in the continental US for 2023.
November 30: Anchorage, Alaska, set a record for snowiest November with 39.3 inches. It was the city’s fifth snowiest month on record.
Dec. 3: Marathon, Florida, sets or ties record high for 84th time in 2023.
Now, more than 1 in 5 top records for the Marathon have been set in 2023.
Dec. 6: The high temperature in Lexington, Nebraska, reached 72 degrees, breaking the city’s daily high temperature record by 17 degrees.
It was the biggest high temperature shock of the year.
Dec. 29: Seattle hits 63 degrees, breaking the record high for the day by 9 degrees.
The previous record high for a 54-degree day was one of three dates tied for Seattle’s coldest current high temperature record, with Dec. 18 and Jan. 8.
Now, December 29 has turned into one of the hottest December records in the city. Only two other dates in December were warmer.
Year-end:
- Nashville went the entire year without a high temperature below 32 degrees – just the fourth time that’s happened. It will also be the first year since 1908 that the city has received no measurable snowfall throughout the calendar year.
- Houston does not reach freezing levels at any time of the year at Bush Intercontinental Airport. It will be the first time the airport has failed to freeze since it opened in 1969. Spanning all of Houston’s weather history, it will be the first time since 1956.
- 11 cities failed to set any record high temperatures for 2023, spread across three states – In California: Eureka, Crescent City, Riverside, San Diego, Burbank and Los Angeles (both LAX and Downtown stations); in Idaho: Lewiston, Burley and McCall; and Anchorage, Alaska.
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