*****NOTE: The temperature after this post was written dropped to 86º at 11:59pm. This means the difference in high/low for the day was 12º, which has happened 1,262 times. Not nearly as impressive as only 297 times.***

If you are looking for a dose of random weather facts, you have come to the right place. Today it's all about the high and low temperature difference! And there is one fact that I think weather nerd or not, you will find interesting!

The high temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor on July 23, 2020, was 98º, with a low of 90º. That's a difference of just 8º. Having a temperature range that small has only occurred 297 times since records began in 1896. In other words, in 45,494 days of weather records, it has only happened on 0.65% of the days!

Ok, now to the very strange part!

Having an 8º difference has only happened five times in July since records began. Ok, great, not that exciting... well, just wait... out of those five times, three have occurred on July 23rd! Very interesting, don't you think? Slim odds of that happening!

Just in case you were wondering, the largest difference in high and low temperature comes in at 48º, which has occurred twice. On June 13, 1917, the high temperature was 107º with a low of 59º. On April 17, 1919, the high was 96º with a low of 48º!

The smallest difference occurred on February 7, 1941 with a high of 52º and a low of 50, just a two-degree difference!

There you have it, your daily dose of useless weather facts! You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming!