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Temperature extremes in California

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  • 2009
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  • The California Geographer 49: 71-84
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  • In this study, National Weather Service temperature datasets are analyzed to determine the hottest and coldest places in California. Data problems include a lack of spatial coverage of weather stations, and inaccurate or missing observations. The hottest place in California overall is Death Valley, whose mean July temperature is well above that of any other station. But in mean yearly temperature and mean yearly maximum temperature, Death Valley is not significantly hotter than other stations in the Salton Sea, Mojave Desert, and along the Colorado River. Bodie measures out to be the coldest spot in California, but colder temperatures do occur on the un-instrumented highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains. California hot and cold spots are then compared to those of the conterminous United States as a whole. The lack of a comprehensive weather station network, temperature data inaccuracies, and stations with close temperature values are all major problems that make it difficult to conclude that one place in California overall is the hottest or coldest.
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