All-time weather records — Alcester, SD

Record high
109.0°F
July 24, 1940
Record low
-33.0°F
February 11, 1988
Wettest day
7.56 in
June 7, 1953

Climate change signal in Alcester

3.6%

of Alcester's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (13 of 366 records since 2015).

1.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (6 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1920s
·
·
1930s
41
11
1940s
67
54
1950s
49
38
1960s
45
50
1970s
21
52
1980s
39
61
1990s
33
50
2000s
33
24
2010s
37
25
2020s
1
1

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1937, the latest in 2020. Period of observation: 1926-2020.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 68.0°F — Jan 27, 2002 -29.9°F — Jan 14, 1982 1.09 in — Jan 30, 2001
February 72.0°F — Feb 22, 2017 -33.0°F — Feb 11, 1988 1.29 in — Feb 28, 1951
March 90.0°F — Mar 30, 1943 -20.9°F — Mar 11, 1948 2.27 in — Mar 24, 2017
April 93.0°F — Apr 21, 1980 -0.9°F — Apr 3, 1975 2.58 in — Apr 4, 2019
May 102.9°F — May 25, 1967 21.9°F — May 3, 1967 4.10 in — May 1, 1972
June 107.1°F — Jun 21, 1988 35.1°F — Jun 3, 1969 7.56 in — Jun 7, 1953
July 109.0°F — Jul 24, 1940 37.9°F — Jul 31, 2000 4.57 in — Jul 21, 2010
August 107.1°F — Aug 15, 1937 34.0°F — Aug 20, 1950 4.78 in — Aug 29, 1985
September 102.0°F — Sep 13, 1939 21.0°F — Sep 28, 1942 7.30 in — Sep 17, 1926
October 96.1°F — Oct 5, 1963 7.0°F — Oct 30, 1993 2.97 in — Oct 16, 1968
November 80.1°F — Nov 9, 1999 -18.9°F — Nov 7, 1991 2.56 in — Nov 10, 1998
December 66.0°F — Dec 2, 1998 -29.0°F — Dec 23, 1989 2.28 in — Dec 17, 2016

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Alcester.