Nation's Hot And Cold Spots

Map showing the location of daily hottest and coldest
places in the United States in 2020. Click on the map
to make it bigger and easier to see. 

NOAA's Weather Prediction Center put out a pretty cool map showing where the daily hot spots and cold spots were in the nation during 2020.  

The usual suspect had the bulk of the cold and hot spot reports. On 106 days last year, Death Valley took the honors of being the hottest spot in the nation. 

Taking second place for the most days this in 2010 capturing the prize for the hottest spot in the nation was Rio Grande Village, Texas.  

That's in an area along the Mexican border southeast of El Paso where the Rio Grande takes a big bend toward the south. 

Top honors for the most frequent cold spot in the United States in 2020 was a lovely sounding spot called Peter Sinks, Utah.  It was the cold spot 94 times. 

New England was the cold spot a number of times in 2020. Mount Washington took the honors 20 times, but I don't think it's fair they were included. After all, it's a mountain summit, which tends to get more extreme weather. And Mount Washington is certainly know for it's extremes.

A place in northern Maine called Estcourt Station was the cold spot 16 times. 

Locations in Vermont took top spot for cold in the contiguous United States twice in 2020.  The data provided by the Weather Prediction Center doesn't give the names of locations for the cold or hot spots if they were one-offs. 

The nation's cold spot in 2020 on one day was up in the Northeast Kingdom. That must have been notorious cold spot Island Pond.  Another cold spot for the nation was a town a little south of Rutland, but I'm not sure which one