All-time weather records — Dover, NC

Record high
106.0°F
July 21, 1926
Record low
-2.0°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
11.80 in
September 16, 1999

Climate change signal in Dover

2.2%

of Dover's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (8 of 366 records since 2015).

1.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (6 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
1
2
1900s
52
41
1910s
41
33
1920s
61
7
1930s
72
26
1940s
26
29
1950s
27
12
1960s
8
25
1970s
18
72
1980s
20
71
1990s
14
17
2000s
11
14
2010s
15
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 1899, the latest in 2018. Period of observation: 1899-2018.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 86.0°F — Jan 14, 1932 -2.0°F — Jan 21, 1985 3.00 in — Jan 11, 1908
February 86.0°F — Feb 17, 1927 0.0°F — Feb 12, 1912 3.60 in — Feb 14, 1984
March 98.1°F — Mar 29, 1907 15.1°F — Mar 3, 1980 3.50 in — Mar 29, 1903
April 99.0°F — Apr 14, 1930 21.0°F — Apr 8, 2007 4.65 in — Apr 25, 2017
May 100.9°F — May 28, 1914 33.1°F — May 4, 1941 4.80 in — May 11, 2015
June 105.1°F — Jun 21, 1924 42.1°F — Jun 1, 1984 4.52 in — Jun 22, 1961
July 106.0°F — Jul 21, 1926 46.9°F — Jul 2, 1988 5.97 in — Jul 31, 1908
August 105.1°F — Aug 10, 1900 42.1°F — Aug 30, 1986 9.58 in — Aug 27, 2011
September 104.0°F — Sep 4, 1925 30.9°F — Sep 24, 1995 11.80 in — Sep 16, 1999
October 98.1°F — Oct 6, 1954 23.0°F — Oct 10, 1935 8.45 in — Oct 9, 2016
November 88.0°F — Nov 7, 1938 15.1°F — Nov 26, 1950 4.81 in — Nov 2, 1969
December 87.1°F — Dec 9, 1918 1.0°F — Dec 26, 1989 2.99 in — Dec 9, 1973

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