All-time weather records — Cotton Valley, LA

Record high
106.0°F
July 24, 1954
Record low
-6.0°F
February 2, 1951
Wettest day
28.10 in
August 27, 1982

Climate change signal in Cotton Valley

0%

of Cotton Valley'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 #
1940s
29
7
1950s
167
87
1960s
94
135
1970s
47
109
1980s
29
28
1990s
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·
2000s
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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 1948, the latest in 1983. Period of observation: 1943-2009.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 82.9°F — Jan 25, 1950 -5.1°F — Jan 12, 1962 4.44 in — Jan 20, 1979
February 87.1°F — Feb 26, 1977 -6.0°F — Feb 2, 1951 5.50 in — Feb 3, 1990
March 89.1°F — Mar 12, 1955 17.1°F — Mar 3, 1980 4.10 in — Mar 20, 2006
April 91.0°F — Apr 1, 1974 28.0°F — Apr 7, 1971 10.40 in — Apr 5, 1997
May 96.1°F — May 30, 1951 37.9°F — May 4, 1954 4.24 in — May 24, 1955
June 102.9°F — Jun 22, 1953 48.0°F — Jun 2, 1956 7.09 in — Jun 13, 1996
July 106.0°F — Jul 24, 1954 55.0°F — Jul 5, 1968 5.04 in — Jul 7, 2007
August 106.0°F — Aug 22, 1980 51.1°F — Aug 22, 1956 28.10 in — Aug 27, 1982
September 104.0°F — Sep 1, 1951 35.1°F — Sep 29, 1967 5.30 in — Sep 25, 2005
October 97.0°F — Oct 9, 1963 25.0°F — Oct 29, 1952 5.21 in — Oct 5, 1949
November 87.1°F — Nov 13, 1955 14.0°F — Nov 29, 1976 5.27 in — Nov 18, 1969
December 82.9°F — Dec 24, 1955 5.0°F — Dec 24, 1963 3.60 in — Dec 4, 1973

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