The sharpest warming in the history of meteorological observations was recorded more than 80 years ago in the United States.
At the beginning of 1943, in one region of this country, there was a temperature jump of 27.2 degrees.
The indicator changed so significantly in just two minutes.
The record still stands.
Details of the sharpest warming
The weather record was set on the morning of January 22, 1943.
It happened in the small town of Spearfish in the American state of South Dakota.
At first that morning was quite frosty. At 7:30 the air temperature was -20 degrees.
However, soon the thermometers rose sharply.
Already at 7:32 the temperature was +7.2 degrees.
In other words, in 120 seconds the frost was replaced by rather warm weather for winter.
The unusual January morning was certainly remembered by the residents of Spearfish. After all, there are simply no places in the world where a sharper warming was recorded.
However, what happened was not the most abrupt temperature jump. Once, the air temperature changed by 55 degrees at once. True, it was a decrease: on January 24, 1916, in the American settlement of Browning, it got colder from +6.7 to -48.8 degrees.
