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Current Temperatures over USA by The Weather Channel
Washington State 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Four hundred miles south to Oregon it is 64 degrees Fahrenheit.
North Dakota is 38 degrees. Five hundred mines north west in Montana it is 57 degrees.
The temperature in Tennessee is 37 degrees Fahrenheit. Two hundred and fifty-nine miles south it is 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Who is it a car traveling a fairly short distance can be experiencing very cold temperature one minute and warm temperatures the next?
Where is Earth's water vapor? It has moved to higher altitudes. The surface of Earth remains absent of atmospheric water vapor. Marisa Lagos
Updated 2:45 pm, Sunday, March 16, 2014
...But if the bone-dry conditions (click here) persist, it won't be. So the agency, which serves 2.4 million Bay Area water customers, is making contingency plans to increase its drinking supply by using two existing reservoirs just northwest of its Yosemite crown jewel that the city hasn't tapped for drinking water since 1988....
Water has a fairly short range of temperature to change states. Frozen to liquid to vapor. It is the lack of water that allows such rapid changes in temperature over a very short distance. There is nothing in the air to mitigate the temperature change.
