All-time weather records — Carthage, SD

Record high
113.0°F
July 20, 1934
Record low
-45.9°F
January 13, 1916
Wettest day
5.78 in
September 12, 2019

Climate change signal in Carthage

7.4%

of Carthage's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (27 of 366 records since 2015).

1.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (6 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
21
45
1900s
29
51
1910s
17
68
1920s
28
47
1930s
101
22
1940s
25
20
1950s
29
24
1960s
19
25
1970s
11
10
1980s
20
19
1990s
19
15
2000s
13
6
2010s
12
11
2020s
22
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 1893, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 63.0°F — Jan 30, 1931 -45.9°F — Jan 13, 1916 4.00 in — Jan 13, 2002
February 70.0°F — Feb 23, 1958 -42.0°F — Feb 2, 1917 1.15 in — Feb 19, 1971
March 89.1°F — Mar 30, 1943 -24.0°F — Mar 2, 1913 2.52 in — Mar 14, 2019
April 96.1°F — Apr 21, 1980 1.0°F — Apr 3, 1936 4.12 in — Apr 30, 1942
May 109.0°F — May 30, 1934 16.0°F — May 12, 1946 4.22 in — May 23, 1914
June 108.0°F — Jun 21, 1988 1.0°F — Jun 9, 1904 5.15 in — Jun 6, 1902
July 113.0°F — Jul 20, 1934 34.0°F — Jul 4, 1915 3.93 in — Jul 20, 1919
August 113.0°F — Aug 4, 1934 26.1°F — Aug 11, 1902 4.59 in — Aug 22, 2025
September 106.0°F — Sep 17, 1895 12.9°F — Sep 28, 1899 5.78 in — Sep 12, 2019
October 95.0°F — Oct 11, 1910 -11.0°F — Oct 29, 1925 3.38 in — Oct 15, 2013
November 80.1°F — Nov 7, 2020 -23.1°F — Nov 29, 1897 1.78 in — Nov 10, 1998
December 66.9°F — Dec 6, 1939 -36.0°F — Dec 13, 1917 1.08 in — Dec 27, 1987

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