All-time weather records — Arkansas City, KS

Record high
109.9°F
August 14, 1923
Record low
-11.0°F
January 12, 1918
Wettest day
9.08 in
October 11, 1973

Climate change signal in Arkansas City

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of Arkansas City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (0 of 366 records since 2015).

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of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (0 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 #
1910s
83
109
1920s
283
257
1940s
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1950s
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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2010s
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2020s
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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 1916, the latest in 1924. Period of observation: 1916-2025.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 72.0°F — Jan 29, 1917 -11.0°F — Jan 12, 1918 2.00 in — Jan 17, 2004
February 81.0°F — Feb 10, 1922 -5.1°F — Feb 2, 1917 3.67 in — Feb 21, 1997
March 86.0°F — Mar 18, 1921 3.0°F — Mar 2, 1922 3.36 in — Mar 21, 2007
April 88.0°F — Apr 17, 1920 21.9°F — Apr 5, 1920 4.60 in — Apr 8, 1922
May 93.0°F — May 26, 1920 32.0°F — May 11, 1924 7.25 in — May 6, 1918
June 100.0°F — Jun 19, 1924 48.9°F — Jun 5, 1920 4.76 in — Jun 11, 1989
July 109.0°F — Jul 13, 1917 46.0°F — Jul 5, 1924 5.46 in — Jul 4, 1958
August 109.9°F — Aug 14, 1923 48.0°F — Aug 30, 1917 4.84 in — Aug 6, 2017
September 104.0°F — Sep 2, 1922 33.1°F — Sep 29, 1916 6.38 in — Sep 13, 1961
October 93.0°F — Oct 9, 1921 12.9°F — Oct 30, 1917 9.08 in — Oct 11, 1973
November 84.9°F — Nov 4, 1921 12.0°F — Nov 14, 1916 4.16 in — Nov 21, 1979
December 81.0°F — Dec 13, 1921 0.0°F — Dec 9, 1919 2.53 in — Dec 20, 2011

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