All-time weather records — Clarksdale, MS

Record high
109.0°F
August 8, 1935
Record low
-8.0°F
January 12, 1918
Wettest day
9.61 in
October 11, 2001

Climate change signal in Clarksdale

7.4%

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

3.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (13 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
18
16
1900s
16
13
1910s
32
90
1920s
51
48
1930s
61
21
1940s
44
23
1950s
77
22
1960s
13
26
1970s
6
12
1980s
8
35
1990s
6
23
2000s
6
16
2010s
10
14
2020s
18
7

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: 1892-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 86.0°F — Jan 19, 1927 -8.0°F — Jan 12, 1918 6.00 in — Jan 23, 1895
February 84.0°F — Feb 25, 1918 0.0°F — Feb 2, 1951 5.77 in — Feb 10, 1966
March 89.1°F — Mar 9, 1911 12.9°F — Mar 3, 1943 4.60 in — Mar 10, 1992
April 93.9°F — Apr 16, 1894 28.9°F — Apr 1, 1924 7.05 in — Apr 4, 1911
May 100.9°F — May 27, 1953 34.0°F — May 2, 1909 6.57 in — May 3, 2008
June 107.1°F — Jun 19, 1953 48.0°F — Jun 16, 1917 5.95 in — Jun 24, 1980
July 108.0°F — Jul 29, 1930 45.0°F — Jul 23, 2000 5.67 in — Jul 16, 1989
August 109.0°F — Aug 8, 1935 51.1°F — Aug 9, 1993 5.16 in — Aug 2, 1911
September 107.1°F — Sep 6, 1925 36.0°F — Sep 30, 1916 4.25 in — Sep 21, 2013
October 97.0°F — Oct 1, 1941 17.1°F — Oct 9, 2001 9.61 in — Oct 11, 2001
November 93.0°F — Nov 17, 1909 12.9°F — Nov 25, 1950 7.51 in — Nov 15, 2006
December 81.0°F — Dec 3, 1982 -2.0°F — Dec 24, 1989 4.98 in — Dec 25, 2015

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