All-time weather records — Brighton, TN

Record high
108.0°F
July 12, 1930
Record low
-15.0°F
January 12, 1918
Wettest day
10.16 in
May 2, 2010

Climate change signal in Brighton

1.9%

of Brighton's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (7 of 366 records since 2015).

1.1%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (4 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
20
12
1900s
16
28
1910s
17
32
1920s
50
34
1930s
81
27
1940s
26
41
1950s
48
31
1960s
23
53
1970s
14
22
1980s
31
45
1990s
15
14
2000s
15
13
2010s
10
14

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 1891, the latest in 2018. Period of observation: 1890-2018.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 78.1°F — Jan 24, 1943 -15.0°F — Jan 12, 1918 5.50 in — Jan 8, 1930
February 81.0°F — Feb 14, 1962 -11.0°F — Feb 2, 1951 5.33 in — Feb 7, 1894
March 91.9°F — Mar 24, 1929 7.0°F — Mar 6, 2015 4.51 in — Mar 17, 1919
April 99.0°F — Apr 26, 1906 17.1°F — Apr 16, 1908 5.62 in — Apr 20, 1973
May 98.1°F — May 7, 1940 32.0°F — May 4, 2013 10.16 in — May 2, 2010
June 105.1°F — Jun 19, 1936 45.0°F — Jun 1, 1966 4.37 in — Jun 17, 1997
July 108.0°F — Jul 12, 1930 48.9°F — Jul 23, 1947 5.80 in — Jul 3, 1936
August 108.0°F — Aug 9, 1930 46.0°F — Aug 31, 1946 6.10 in — Aug 14, 1957
September 104.0°F — Sep 6, 1925 33.1°F — Sep 29, 1942 4.51 in — Sep 16, 1962
October 98.1°F — Oct 4, 1905 21.9°F — Oct 13, 1917 8.35 in — Oct 6, 1910
November 99.0°F — Nov 1, 1909 6.1°F — Nov 25, 1950 5.80 in — Nov 29, 2001
December 79.0°F — Dec 3, 1982 -9.0°F — Dec 9, 1917 8.31 in — Dec 25, 1987

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