All-time weather records — Colfax, LA

Record high
106.0°F
August 7, 1947
Record low
3.0°F
November 24, 1962
Wettest day
10.55 in
October 17, 2006

Climate change signal in Colfax

0%

of Colfax's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (0 of 366 records since 2015).

0%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (0 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
33
29
1950s
182
149
1960s
87
140
1970s
16
38
1990s
·
·
2000s
27
6
2010s
21
4

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 1947, the latest in 2010. Period of observation: 1926-2011.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 82.0°F — Jan 9, 1957 5.0°F — Jan 24, 1948 4.60 in — Jan 7, 1998
February 86.0°F — Feb 10, 1957 3.9°F — Feb 2, 1951 8.76 in — Feb 10, 1966
March 90.0°F — Mar 12, 1955 19.0°F — Mar 8, 2010 4.10 in — Mar 2, 1964
April 95.0°F — Apr 14, 1963 30.9°F — Apr 2, 1962 8.20 in — Apr 29, 1953
May 99.0°F — May 30, 1951 41.0°F — May 4, 1954 8.76 in — May 17, 1953
June 102.9°F — Jun 21, 1953 51.1°F — Jun 1, 1966 4.08 in — Jun 20, 1946
July 105.1°F — Jul 23, 1954 54.0°F — Jul 15, 1967 4.88 in — Jul 14, 1955
August 106.0°F — Aug 7, 1947 55.0°F — Aug 12, 1967 4.60 in — Aug 24, 1958
September 100.9°F — Sep 2, 1951 37.9°F — Sep 29, 1967 7.02 in — Sep 5, 1940
October 99.0°F — Oct 5, 1954 26.1°F — Oct 29, 1952 10.55 in — Oct 17, 2006
November 90.0°F — Nov 3, 1971 3.0°F — Nov 24, 1962 6.50 in — Nov 18, 1948
December 82.0°F — Dec 8, 1966 12.0°F — Dec 13, 1962 9.51 in — Dec 20, 1940

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