All-time weather records — Dinosaur, CO

Record high
104.0°F
July 13, 2002
Record low
-29.0°F
December 22, 1990
Wettest day
1.98 in
August 2, 1968

Climate change signal in Dinosaur

3.3%

of Dinosaur's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (12 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 #
1960s
10
83
1970s
71
101
1980s
114
91
1990s
62
42
2000s
80
31
2010s
29
18

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 1966, the latest in 2015. Period of observation: 1965-2015.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 57.0°F — Jan 10, 1990 -23.1°F — Jan 2, 1979 0.81 in — Jan 21, 2000
February 64.0°F — Feb 25, 1986 -24.0°F — Feb 1, 1985 1.00 in — Feb 23, 2007
March 75.9°F — Mar 21, 2004 -2.0°F — Mar 5, 1966 1.33 in — Mar 28, 1993
April 87.1°F — Apr 17, 1987 3.0°F — Apr 2, 1975 1.20 in — Apr 20, 2001
May 96.1°F — May 31, 2002 16.0°F — May 7, 1988 1.03 in — May 27, 1992
June 100.0°F — Jun 24, 1988 23.0°F — Jun 8, 1966 1.35 in — Jun 17, 1998
July 104.0°F — Jul 13, 2002 28.0°F — Jul 7, 2008 1.33 in — Jul 7, 2015
August 102.0°F — Aug 6, 1979 34.0°F — Aug 18, 1968 1.98 in — Aug 2, 1968
September 96.1°F — Sep 1, 1995 21.0°F — Sep 18, 1965 1.54 in — Sep 19, 1997
October 84.9°F — Oct 1, 2010 0.0°F — Oct 31, 1972 1.61 in — Oct 4, 1998
November 73.9°F — Nov 17, 2012 -9.0°F — Nov 28, 1976 0.85 in — Nov 10, 2010
December 57.9°F — Dec 1, 1995 -29.0°F — Dec 22, 1990 1.92 in — Dec 21, 2010

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