All-time weather records — Dover, TN

Record high
109.9°F
July 22, 1901
Record low
-99.0°F
January 30, 2018
Wettest day
7.60 in
August 31, 1982

Climate change signal in Dover

5.5%

of Dover's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (20 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
21
10
1900s
47
29
1910s
59
32
1920s
42
33
1930s
46
33
1940s
24
40
1950s
42
42
1960s
16
44
1970s
10
50
1980s
16
31
1990s
7
8
2000s
8
2
2010s
19
7
2020s
9
5

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 1898, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1897-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 79.0°F — Jan 18, 1907 -99.0°F — Jan 30, 2018 7.06 in — Jan 8, 1920
February 84.0°F — Feb 17, 1911 -20.9°F — Feb 2, 1951 6.80 in — Feb 16, 2025
March 93.0°F — Mar 24, 1910 -2.9°F — Mar 5, 1960 5.68 in — Mar 2, 1997
April 97.0°F — Apr 29, 1899 21.0°F — Apr 1, 1923 6.28 in — Apr 4, 1968
May 100.0°F — May 28, 1911 30.0°F — May 2, 1963 4.28 in — May 19, 1983
June 108.0°F — Jun 30, 2012 27.0°F — Jun 27, 1907 5.44 in — Jun 5, 1998
July 109.9°F — Jul 22, 1901 -99.0°F — Jul 23, 2013 3.91 in — Jul 7, 2016
August 107.1°F — Aug 8, 1930 44.1°F — Aug 31, 1946 7.60 in — Aug 31, 1982
September 106.0°F — Sep 4, 1925 24.1°F — Sep 27, 1940 5.30 in — Sep 22, 1919
October 96.1°F — Oct 2, 1910 19.0°F — Oct 29, 1952 4.15 in — Oct 7, 1927
November 87.1°F — Nov 5, 1909 -7.1°F — Nov 25, 1950 4.23 in — Nov 1, 1903
December 79.0°F — Dec 24, 2003 -18.0°F — Dec 9, 1917 4.90 in — Dec 22, 1990

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