All-time weather records — Crab Orchard, KY

Record high
105.1°F
June 29, 2012
Record low
-24.0°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
6.72 in
July 28, 2001

Climate change signal in Crab Orchard

23%

of Crab Orchard's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (84 of 366 records since 2015).

10.7%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (39 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 #
1970s
3
3
1980s
84
180
1990s
79
80
2000s
72
43
2010s
88
43
2020s
40
17

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 1979, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1979-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 75.9°F — Jan 31, 2002 -24.0°F — Jan 21, 1985 4.48 in — Jan 1, 2022
February 79.0°F — Feb 20, 2018 -15.0°F — Feb 1, 1985 3.20 in — Feb 16, 2023
March 89.1°F — Mar 26, 1993 -11.9°F — Mar 6, 2015 2.45 in — Mar 5, 2015
April 90.0°F — Apr 27, 1986 17.1°F — Apr 7, 1982 4.06 in — Apr 14, 2015
May 91.9°F — May 27, 1991 27.0°F — May 9, 2020 3.40 in — May 19, 2020
June 105.1°F — Jun 29, 2012 32.0°F — Jun 10, 1988 4.15 in — Jun 7, 2003
July 102.9°F — Jul 9, 1988 45.0°F — Jul 2, 1988 6.72 in — Jul 28, 2001
August 104.0°F — Aug 11, 1988 36.0°F — Aug 29, 1986 3.78 in — Aug 29, 2005
September 100.0°F — Sep 3, 2011 28.9°F — Sep 30, 1993 3.95 in — Sep 23, 2006
October 96.1°F — Oct 3, 2019 19.0°F — Oct 22, 1987 3.04 in — Oct 7, 2019
November 84.0°F — Nov 1, 2016 8.1°F — Nov 5, 1991 2.53 in — Nov 30, 2019
December 77.0°F — Dec 3, 1982 -18.0°F — Dec 23, 1989 3.13 in — Dec 23, 2017

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