All-time weather records — Cobalt, MO

Record high
109.0°F
July 16, 1980
Record low
-24.0°F
January 11, 1977
Wettest day
6.10 in
June 30, 1957

Climate change signal in Cobalt

9%

of Cobalt's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (33 of 366 records since 2015).

4.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (17 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 #
1920s
·
·
1930s
·
·
1940s
·
·
1950s
·
·
1960s
69
90
1970s
50
77
1980s
100
124
1990s
45
30
2000s
36
19
2010s
58
16
2020s
8
10

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 1962, the latest in 2022. Period of observation: 1923-2025.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 91.0°F — Jan 5, 1997 -24.0°F — Jan 11, 1977 3.98 in — Jan 1, 1948
February 82.9°F — Feb 24, 1982 -17.0°F — Feb 3, 1985 3.80 in — Feb 13, 1950
March 87.1°F — Mar 21, 2017 -6.0°F — Mar 5, 1978 5.09 in — Mar 28, 1977
April 93.0°F — Apr 24, 1965 12.0°F — Apr 11, 1989 5.20 in — Apr 4, 1999
May 93.9°F — May 27, 2012 15.1°F — May 15, 1996 5.50 in — May 13, 2002
June 108.0°F — Jun 29, 2012 34.0°F — Jun 10, 1988 6.10 in — Jun 30, 1957
July 109.0°F — Jul 16, 1980 42.1°F — Jul 4, 1968 4.12 in — Jul 28, 1979
August 109.0°F — Aug 1, 1980 36.0°F — Aug 29, 1986 5.97 in — Aug 29, 1974
September 100.0°F — Sep 2, 1980 23.0°F — Sep 24, 1989 5.62 in — Sep 22, 1965
October 91.9°F — Oct 2, 2019 16.0°F — Oct 24, 1981 3.24 in — Oct 3, 2014
November 84.9°F — Nov 1, 1968 3.0°F — Nov 14, 1986 5.28 in — Nov 14, 1993
December 75.9°F — Dec 3, 2021 -18.0°F — Dec 22, 1989 4.14 in — Dec 3, 1982

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