All-time weather records — Dawson, ND

Record high
120.9°F
July 6, 1936
Record low
-50.1°F
February 16, 1936
Wettest day
5.05 in
September 16, 1994

Climate change signal in Dawson

5.7%

of Dawson's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (21 of 366 records since 2015).

2.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (9 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
11
38
1900s
21
39
1910s
16
32
1920s
33
65
1930s
89
46
1940s
21
41
1950s
37
24
1960s
29
20
1970s
18
19
1980s
11
9
1990s
30
10
2000s
17
8
2010s
25
14
2020s
8
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 1894, the latest in 2021. Period of observation: 1894-2021.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 68.0°F — Jan 5, 1917 -44.0°F — Jan 1, 1919 1.08 in — Jan 2, 2017
February 64.0°F — Feb 27, 2016 -50.1°F — Feb 16, 1936 1.02 in — Feb 27, 1902
March 80.1°F — Mar 24, 1939 -35.0°F — Mar 10, 1948 5.00 in — Mar 1, 2004
April 95.0°F — Apr 29, 1934 -7.1°F — Apr 2, 1954 2.30 in — Apr 23, 1976
May 109.9°F — May 30, 1934 10.9°F — May 2, 1907 2.25 in — May 12, 1985
June 109.0°F — Jun 18, 1933 26.1°F — Jun 4, 1894 4.45 in — Jun 15, 1922
July 120.9°F — Jul 6, 1936 30.0°F — Jul 30, 1934 5.00 in — Jul 20, 1923
August 106.0°F — Aug 5, 1941 26.1°F — Aug 14, 1929 3.76 in — Aug 31, 2016
September 105.1°F — Sep 5, 1978 10.0°F — Sep 26, 1942 5.05 in — Sep 16, 1994
October 95.0°F — Oct 4, 1963 -11.9°F — Oct 27, 1919 2.55 in — Oct 9, 1982
November 75.9°F — Nov 1, 1999 -25.1°F — Nov 30, 1895 1.24 in — Nov 30, 2019
December 66.9°F — Dec 6, 1939 -42.0°F — Dec 20, 1916 1.55 in — Dec 28, 2019

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