Mt. Mitchell, NC (1980 - 2015) tied its tenth
coldest daily minimum temperature -LRB--16 degrees F; -26.7 degrees C) for any month on record.
Not exact matches
During December, there were 18.8 times more record warm
daily maximum and
minimum temperature records compared to
cold daily maximum and
minimum temperature records.
There were 11,981 warm
daily temperature records (5,215 maximum and 6,766
minimum) compared to 635
cold daily temperature records (371 maximum and 264
minimum).
The month began with a
cold arctic blast, and with a temperature of -5 °F (before windchill is factored in) on Jan 7th, a new
daily minimum record was set.
Because the relatively moderate early December
cold - snap has dissipated, neither threshold is likely to be crossed which will make 2016 the second warmest year on record overall and the warmest ever for annual average of
daily minimum temperatures.
September average
daily maximums were close to normal or below normal in some locations while October brought very
cold conditions in northern BC with average
daily maximum temperatures in the
coldest ten percent of the long - term record and
daily minimum temperatures below normal.
So, for the record for annual average of
daily minimum temperature to fail to be broken, December would need to have
colder minimum temperatures than any time in the past 32 years.
Such a decrease is partly related to a reduction of
cold extremes, which are primarily associated with the increased mean of the
daily minimum temperature.
«Working with data pertaining to 7450 cardiovascular - related deaths that occurred within Budapest, Hungary, between 1995 and 2004 — where the deceased were «medico - legally autopsied» — Toro et al. looked for potential relationships between
daily maximum,
minimum and mean temperature, air humidity, air pressure, wind speed, global radiation and
daily numbers of the heart - related deaths... scientists report and restate their primary finding numerous times throughout their paper, writing that (1) «both the maximum and the
minimum daily temperatures tend to be lower when more death cases occur in a day,» (2) «on the days with four or more death cases, the
daily maximum and
minimum temperatures tend to be lower than on days without any cardiovascular death events,» (3) «the largest frequency of cardiovascular death cases was detected in
cold and cooling weather conditions,» (4) «we found a significant negative relationship between temperature and cardiovascular mortality,» (5) «the analysis of 6 - hour change of air pressure suggests that more acute or chronic vascular death cases occur during increasing air pressure conditions (implying
cold weather fronts),» (6) «we found a high frequency of cardiovascular death in
cold weather,» (7) «a significant negative relationship was detected between
daily maximum [and]
minimum temperature [s] and the number of sudden cardiovascular death cases,» and (8) «a significant negative correlation was detected between
daily mean temperature and cardiovascular mortality.»
Although in the study over 90 % was attributed to
cold the paper noted that «This difference was mainly caused by the high
minimum - mortality percentile, with most of the mean
daily temperatures being lower than the optimum value».
Cold waves were similarly defined as periods of at least 3 days in January and February when
daily minimum temperatures were lower than the 95th percentile of
daily minimum temperatures for those two months.
That is, yes, for any given region of the world, there's a
minimum in
daily mortality in some mid-range of temperatures, so that both warmer and
colder temperatures are correlated with more people dying.