All-time weather records — Cheraw, SC

Record high
108.0°F
July 23, 1952
Record low
-9.0°F
February 14, 1899
Wettest day
10.75 in
September 16, 2018

Climate change signal in Cheraw

2.7%

of Cheraw's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (10 of 366 records since 2015).

4.1%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (15 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
27
20
1900s
25
17
1910s
16
29
1920s
57
23
1930s
50
17
1940s
40
31
1950s
60
25
1960s
20
76
1970s
11
58
1980s
18
25
1990s
13
10
2000s
13
18
2010s
14
11
2020s
2
6

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 1896, the latest in 2022. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 80.1°F — Jan 3, 1952 0.0°F — Jan 21, 1985 3.00 in — Jan 8, 1973
February 86.0°F — Feb 25, 1930 -9.0°F — Feb 14, 1899 3.95 in — Feb 17, 1969
March 93.0°F — Mar 23, 1907 9.0°F — Mar 4, 1980 3.55 in — Mar 18, 1983
April 95.0°F — Apr 19, 1896 23.0°F — Apr 1, 1964 3.92 in — Apr 12, 1926
May 102.9°F — May 26, 1926 30.9°F — May 1, 1918 3.92 in — May 22, 1901
June 106.0°F — Jun 23, 1981 44.1°F — Jun 2, 1966 6.79 in — Jun 17, 1979
July 108.0°F — Jul 23, 1952 50.0°F — Jul 17, 2001 9.38 in — Jul 15, 1916
August 106.0°F — Aug 2, 1980 48.9°F — Aug 30, 1965 5.04 in — Aug 21, 1931
September 107.1°F — Sep 4, 1925 39.9°F — Sep 22, 1918 10.75 in — Sep 16, 2018
October 102.0°F — Oct 6, 1954 23.0°F — Oct 29, 1976 6.49 in — Oct 11, 1990
November 90.0°F — Nov 3, 1961 10.9°F — Nov 26, 1950 3.80 in — Nov 29, 1934
December 81.0°F — Dec 9, 1998 3.9°F — Dec 23, 1935 3.38 in — Dec 14, 2019

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