Are the All-Time Daily, Monthly, and Yearly Record Minimum Temperatures for Tucson, Arizona Nearly (or Virtually) Unbreakable

摘要

There is an old sports adage that says, All records are made to be broken. In sports, there are a few that most likely will never be broken. A few to mention include 511 career wins in baseball by pitcher Cy Young; winning eleven straight golf tournaments like Byron Nelson did in 1945 or Wayne Gretzky scoring 92 goals in the 1981-82 hockey season. For climatic purposes temperature, rainfall and snowfall are records that are monitored on a daily, monthly and yearly basis. This paper will take a completely different look at the past low minimum temperature records set/tied in Tucson Arizona. It will look at how the population change of the past 50+ years, resulting in urban sprawl and the effects of the associated urban heat island, has made it harder to achieve daily low minimum temperature records and nearly impossible to break monthly and yearly low minimum temperature records at the Tucson International Airport.