All-time weather records — Dante, SD

Record high
115.0°F
July 17, 1936
Record low
-38.9°F
December 29, 1917
Wettest day
5.56 in
May 22, 1936

Climate change signal in Dante

0%

of Dante'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 #
1910s
7
44
1920s
38
79
1930s
117
44
1940s
37
34
1950s
40
45
1960s
31
44
1970s
19
23
1980s
40
26
1990s
19
22
2000s
18
4
2010s
·
1

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 1916, the latest in 2009. Period of observation: 1916-2011.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 73.0°F — Jan 13, 1927 -32.1°F — Jan 5, 1924 1.56 in — Jan 3, 1926
February 73.9°F — Feb 17, 1981 -35.0°F — Feb 8, 1933 1.50 in — Feb 20, 2011
March 95.0°F — Mar 30, 1943 -24.0°F — Mar 17, 1943 2.78 in — Mar 17, 1987
April 100.0°F — Apr 25, 1962 -0.9°F — Apr 3, 1936 2.81 in — Apr 22, 2001
May 107.1°F — May 30, 1934 19.9°F — May 1, 1961 5.56 in — May 22, 1936
June 111.9°F — Jun 23, 1937 30.9°F — Jun 17, 1927 3.30 in — Jun 21, 2005
July 115.0°F — Jul 17, 1936 23.0°F — Jul 17, 2008 3.09 in — Jul 13, 1962
August 113.0°F — Aug 2, 1930 34.0°F — Aug 6, 2010 3.41 in — Aug 18, 1961
September 106.0°F — Sep 6, 1959 19.9°F — Sep 20, 1918 3.45 in — Sep 24, 1934
October 99.0°F — Oct 6, 1947 0.0°F — Oct 31, 1991 2.48 in — Oct 10, 1961
November 82.0°F — Nov 2, 1964 -17.0°F — Nov 14, 1959 1.55 in — Nov 21, 1979
December 75.0°F — Dec 6, 1939 -38.9°F — Dec 29, 1917 1.19 in — Dec 30, 2006

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