All-time weather records — Conway, IA

Record high
109.9°F
July 5, 1911
Record low
-34.1°F
February 3, 1996
Wettest day
5.73 in
July 25, 1979

Climate change signal in Conway

4.4%

of Conway's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (16 of 366 records since 2015).

2.2%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (8 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
9
17
1900s
23
64
1910s
72
92
1920s
9
12
1930s
25
1
1940s
16
18
1950s
62
18
1960s
33
37
1970s
15
46
1980s
29
26
1990s
22
13
2000s
13
6
2010s
38
16

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 1898, the latest in 2018. Period of observation: 1898-2018.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 68.0°F — Jan 31, 1989 -32.1°F — Jan 12, 1974 2.04 in — Jan 12, 1960
February 75.9°F — Feb 28, 1972 -34.1°F — Feb 3, 1996 2.00 in — Feb 20, 1937
March 90.0°F — Mar 22, 1910 -24.0°F — Mar 12, 1998 3.03 in — Mar 30, 2012
April 93.9°F — Apr 27, 1956 1.0°F — Apr 4, 1899 4.65 in — Apr 18, 2013
May 97.0°F — May 12, 1956 19.0°F — May 2, 1908 3.41 in — May 7, 2007
June 102.0°F — Jun 19, 1956 37.0°F — Jun 11, 1913 5.31 in — Jun 30, 1959
July 109.9°F — Jul 5, 1911 39.9°F — Jul 5, 1972 5.73 in — Jul 25, 1979
August 108.0°F — Aug 4, 1918 37.0°F — Aug 26, 1910 5.00 in — Aug 2, 1943
September 107.1°F — Sep 5, 1913 21.9°F — Sep 29, 1899 5.05 in — Sep 14, 1914
October 93.9°F — Oct 4, 1997 10.0°F — Oct 30, 1917 5.52 in — Oct 11, 1973
November 81.0°F — Nov 14, 1999 -11.0°F — Nov 30, 1964 5.07 in — Nov 17, 1952
December 70.0°F — Dec 8, 1946 -29.9°F — Dec 10, 1919 2.60 in — Dec 14, 2015

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