🌡️ Temperature Explorer 🗺️
Discover how temperatures vary across America in early January!
🗺️ Choose a City to Explore
Click on any city in the map below to see winter temperatures!
👆 Click on a city in the map above to start exploring!
Each city has different temperatures depending on how far north or south it is and whether it’s near the ocean or mountains.
📊 Temperature Data Credits & Attribution
NOAA Climate Prediction Center – Average Temperature Data
Data Period: January 4-10, 2026
Source: Computer-generated contours based on preliminary gridded (CONUS and Alaska) and station (Hawaii) data
Temperature data represents average temperatures across the continental United States during early January 2026.
Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center
This data is in the public domain and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
📋 Educational Standards Alignment (For Teachers)
📚 Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
- K-ESS2-1: Use observations to describe patterns of weather across different times and areas.
- 2-ESS2-3: Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
- 3-ESS2-1: Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions.
- 3-ESS2-2: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
- 5-ESS2-1: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
🍑 Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)
- S1E1: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate weather data to identify patterns over time.
- S2E3: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the effects of the Sun on seasonal weather patterns.
- S3E2: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the physical attributes of weather and climate.
- S4E4: Analyze weather charts/maps and collect weather data to predict weather events and infer patterns and seasonal changes.
- S5E1: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to identify surface features on Earth and other objects in the Solar System.
🌲 North Carolina Essential Standards
- K.E.1.1: Observe and describe weather patterns that occur from day to day, during the seasons, and in different climate zones.
- 2.E.1.1: Summarize how energy from the sun serves as a source of light that warms the land, air, and water.
- 3.E.1.1: Recognize the major components and patterns observed in the earth/moon/sun system.
- 4.E.1.1: Explain the causes of day and night based on the rotation of Earth and the apparent movement of the sun.
- 5.E.1.1: Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands.
🌊 New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS)
- K-ESS2-1: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
- 2-ESS2-3: Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth.
- 3-ESS2-1: Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
- 4-ESS2-2: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
- 5-ESS2-1: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact.
🗽 New York State Learning Standards (NYSLS)
- K-ESS2-1: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
- 2-ESS2-3: Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
- 3-ESS2-1: Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions.
- 4-ESS1-1: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
- 5-ESS2-1: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact.
📊 Common Core Math Standards (CCSS.Math)
- 2.MD.D.10: Draw a picture graph and a bar graph to represent a data set with up to four categories.
- 3.MD.B.3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.
- 4.MD.A.2: Use the four operations to solve word problems involving temperatures.
- 5.G.A.2: Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane.
💡 For Teachers: This activity aligns with multiple grade-level standards across science, math, and geography. Feel free to reference these standards in your lesson plans and curriculum documentation.
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