Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius).
Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius).
While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather.
The fun part of North dakota is the extremes. The record low (without wind chill) is -60 F, the record high is 122 F. That is a 182 degree spread, or 100 C spread for the rest of the world.
I often wonder how much money Northern states would save on roads if it weren't for the extreme temperature swings.
Regularly hit highs over 100 in the summer, lows below -30 in the winter. That's an awful lot of compression and expansion. Not to mention the abuse of heavy plows and their blades catching upheaved concrete.
That sounds so fun!
Weeeee
It's a little disingenuous to compare winter in North Dakota to Miami in this manner, and to include the windchill. I don't know the average temperature in Miami in January, but I do know that this is not "strange" for North Dakota in January.
Thought the same. It's disappointing to see click bait from the AP but I guess that's the new way of doing business when nobody wants to pay for news
It was only 71 today just north of Miami. We have at least a couple weeks before 96°.
I'm a Michigander. We don't get ridiculous low temps like -70 or anything but, I wish most roads would be left alone. Plow and salt main Highways and expressways but, leave everything else undone. Then we can buy vehicles that can traverse the snow like sleds or good 4x4 rigs.
This would keep our roads nicer and would keep our cars from rotting out
If you have no traction it doesn't matter how many wheels have power to them your still gonna slip.
Amoung the tons of other issues with just not plowing some roads. Comment reeks of brainrot.
Reduce car dependency, plow side roads first because main roads clear themselves.