All-time weather records — Bluff City, AR

Record high
118.9°F
August 4, 1897
Record low
-9.0°F
February 16, 2021
Wettest day
9.48 in
July 4, 2015

Climate change signal in Bluff City

3%

of Bluff City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (11 of 366 records since 2015).

6.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (24 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 #
1890s
54
20
1900s
39
27
1910s
58
63
1920s
40
32
1930s
45
23
1940s
16
20
1950s
46
28
1960s
17
38
1970s
9
11
1980s
17
34
1990s
2
15
2000s
7
13
2010s
11
29
2020s
5
13

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 1894, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1890-2025.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 86.0°F — Jan 11, 1898 -7.1°F — Jan 12, 1918 7.21 in — Jan 22, 1938
February 88.0°F — Feb 20, 1986 -9.0°F — Feb 16, 2021 6.00 in — Feb 16, 2001
March 93.0°F — Mar 31, 1974 10.9°F — Mar 3, 1943 5.06 in — Mar 29, 1989
April 95.0°F — Apr 23, 1915 27.0°F — Apr 5, 1920 6.00 in — Apr 24, 1966
May 100.0°F — May 31, 1934 32.0°F — May 4, 2013 4.52 in — May 17, 1930
June 108.0°F — Jun 20, 1936 48.9°F — Jun 17, 1917 6.71 in — Jun 12, 1945
July 111.9°F — Jul 29, 1930 54.0°F — Jul 4, 1924 9.48 in — Jul 4, 2015
August 118.9°F — Aug 4, 1897 50.0°F — Aug 28, 1904 6.87 in — Aug 31, 1974
September 109.9°F — Sep 1, 2000 36.0°F — Sep 27, 1942 5.50 in — Sep 2, 1974
October 102.0°F — Oct 1, 1938 23.0°F — Oct 29, 1910 5.75 in — Oct 11, 2001
November 89.1°F — Nov 1, 1927 12.9°F — Nov 29, 1976 5.30 in — Nov 5, 1902
December 81.0°F — Dec 5, 1933 0.0°F — Dec 23, 1989 5.70 in — Dec 24, 2009

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