Does any state have weirder weather than Colorado?

Driving through northern Arizona a few years ago, I stopped at Meteor Crater and the temp there was in the 40s with a very strong wind.

A half hour later I drove through a heavy snow a few miles outside of Flagstaff.

When I pulled into a hotel parking lot in Flagstaff it was about 65 degrees and sunny. I described the weather to the hotel clerk and he said it happened all the time around there.

I was in Colorado Springs one time and they had a tornado warning one day and snow the next.

Louisiana can have weird weather too. I mean sometime it can rain while the suns out

I was in Paso Robles CA in late August a few years ago. It was 101 degrees when I left town and drove 30 miles to the coast. When I got out on the beach it was 68 degrees.

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It was 75 years ago January 22, 1943 when Spearfish, SD. set and still holds the record for fastest temperature change.

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That day started out very cold in Spearfish, and at 7:30 am MST the temperature recorded was -4°F. At that time Chinook winds picked up speed and two minutes later at 7:32 am the temperature rose to +45° F. This was a 49° increase in just two minutes that is a record that still stands. Temperatures continued to rise and at 9:00 am the temperature reached +54° F. As the chinook winds died down and 27 minutes later the temperature dropped 58° F back to -4° F. The rapid temperature fluctuation that day caused glass windows to crack and instantly frosted car windows.

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Parts of California have micro climates in the valleys. I was driving about an hour outside of SF years ago and went like 25 miles and the temp would swing 20-30 degrees. It was weird as hell.

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Usually in the Bay Area, the forecasters will give at least 3 different forecasts. City, East Bay, South Bay. Even within SF itself you can have 30 degree swings in a few miles.

That’s just life in the Rockies or any other high mountains. Montana and Wyoming boasted the same thing.

I woke up to 0 degrees and a blizzard in Mammoth Mountain, CA. We barely made it out in time. Watched the sun set that day in Death Valley NP at a little less than 90 degrees. It was in May.

Anywhere there are Chinook winds. They come rolling down the mountain causing giant temperature swings. Largest ever recorded caused temps to go from -54 to 49 in less than 24 hours. And the temperatures usually go back to baseline as soon as the Chinook winds are finished blowing through.

Some of the wind gusts can reach hurricane force, too.