All-time weather records — Cactus, TX

Record high
109.0°F
June 28, 1980
Record low
-99.0°F
March 3, 2011
Wettest day
6.25 in
February 26, 2013

Climate change signal in Cactus

14.5%

of Cactus's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (53 of 366 records since 2015).

5.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (20 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 #
1930s
10
1
1940s
54
27
1950s
36
29
1960s
37
47
1970s
44
30
1980s
50
46
1990s
29
27
2000s
32
23
2010s
46
124
2020s
28
12

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 1939, the latest in 2022. Period of observation: 1937-2022.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 79.0°F — Jan 22, 1950 -18.0°F — Jan 4, 1959 1.59 in — Jan 8, 1939
February 86.0°F — Feb 2, 1963 -14.1°F — Feb 15, 2021 6.25 in — Feb 26, 2013
March 99.0°F — Mar 1, 2011 -99.0°F — Mar 3, 2011 2.50 in — Mar 26, 2007
April 99.0°F — Apr 29, 1943 -99.0°F — Apr 15, 2011 4.05 in — Apr 14, 1999
May 102.0°F — May 17, 1996 -99.0°F — May 27, 2011 4.10 in — May 31, 1988
June 109.0°F — Jun 28, 1980 -99.0°F — Jun 12, 2011 3.76 in — Jun 14, 1954
July 109.0°F — Jul 10, 1940 25.0°F — Jul 19, 2011 3.98 in — Jul 1, 1971
August 108.0°F — Aug 1, 1944 5.0°F — Aug 24, 2011 4.14 in — Aug 10, 2002
September 105.1°F — Sep 3, 1939 10.9°F — Sep 29, 2011 2.61 in — Sep 9, 1960
October 96.1°F — Oct 2, 1944 -38.9°F — Oct 21, 2011 3.54 in — Oct 22, 2015
November 87.1°F — Nov 9, 1980 -7.1°F — Nov 2, 2011 1.57 in — Nov 16, 2001
December 91.0°F — Dec 12, 1995 -99.0°F — Dec 10, 2009 3.00 in — Dec 23, 2003

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