All-time weather records — Brookhaven, MS

Record high
840.9°F
October 15, 1909
Record low
-9.9°F
February 13, 1899
Wettest day
8.08 in
May 13, 1990

Climate change signal in Brookhaven

1.6%

of Brookhaven's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (6 of 366 records since 2015).

2.7%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (10 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
84
42
1900s
37
32
1910s
46
44
1920s
80
15
1930s
38
10
1940s
13
25
1950s
29
14
1960s
8
13
1970s
2
14
1980s
9
95
1990s
·
27
2000s
14
15
2010s
4
17
2020s
2
3

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 2023. Period of observation: 1893-2025.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 84.9°F — Jan 30, 1911 1.9°F — Jan 27, 1940 6.74 in — Jan 28, 1994
February 86.0°F — Feb 26, 1918 -9.9°F — Feb 13, 1899 7.11 in — Feb 16, 1990
March 91.9°F — Mar 11, 1911 14.0°F — Mar 3, 1980 7.00 in — Mar 27, 1902
April 96.1°F — Apr 29, 1899 26.1°F — Apr 4, 1987 7.58 in — Apr 4, 1923
May 102.0°F — May 26, 1896 37.9°F — May 4, 2013 8.08 in — May 13, 1990
June 106.0°F — Jun 20, 1936 0.0°F — Jun 15, 1986 5.16 in — Jun 28, 1957
July 109.0°F — Jul 13, 1901 50.0°F — Jul 10, 1943 5.03 in — Jul 19, 1923
August 106.0°F — Aug 4, 1924 50.0°F — Aug 15, 2004 6.70 in — Aug 27, 1992
September 106.0°F — Sep 6, 1925 37.0°F — Sep 29, 1896 6.40 in — Sep 2, 2008
October 840.9°F — Oct 15, 1909 25.0°F — Oct 31, 1917 6.84 in — Oct 5, 1964
November 89.1°F — Nov 1, 1935 17.1°F — Nov 16, 1940 4.40 in — Nov 11, 1946
December 87.1°F — Dec 4, 1922 0.0°F — Dec 1, 1989 7.94 in — Dec 9, 1919

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