Did you know that Hawaii has both the lowest all-time high temperature and the highest all-time low temperature of any US state?
Look it up. Hawaii's all-time high is 100 degrees and all-time low is 12.
To be fair, Alaska's all-time high is actually also only 100, so they are tied for lowest-high, but Hawaii's low is a full 14 degrees higher than second place Florida's -2, which makes Hawaii also the only state to have never been in negative degrees.
Let us contrast this with Northampton, MA which has a low of -30 and high of 100. Our swing is almost 50 degrees greater than the entire state of Hawaii. Honolulu only has a swing of about 40 degrees all-time (95-52)
On the other extreme, the state of Alaska has a 180 degree variation from -80 to 100. The city of Fairbanks alone has seen every temperature from -66 to 99.
World-wide, I cannot give a certain answer for the most impressive variance, but Yakutsk (Russia) might be a good guess. It's been as low as -85 and as high as 103.
-ben
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