All-time weather records — Drakesville, IA

Record high
113.0°F
July 14, 1936
Record low
-29.0°F
January 12, 1974
Wettest day
8.17 in
August 24, 2007

Climate change signal in Drakesville

1.6%

of Drakesville's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (6 of 366 records since 2015).

0.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (2 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 #
1900s
15
19
1910s
63
62
1920s
1
4
1930s
63
22
1940s
40
36
1950s
30
45
1960s
25
61
1970s
20
48
1980s
41
24
1990s
26
26
2000s
19
8
2010s
22
10
2020s
1
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 1906, the latest in 2020. Period of observation: 1906-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 70.0°F — Jan 31, 1989 -29.0°F — Jan 12, 1974 1.63 in — Jan 19, 1907
February 75.0°F — Mar 1, 1972 -26.0°F — Feb 3, 1996 2.16 in — Feb 9, 2001
March 90.0°F — Mar 23, 1910 -18.9°F — Mar 1, 1962 3.00 in — Mar 26, 1916
April 89.1°F — Apr 20, 1987 -4.0°F — Apr 12, 1910 4.53 in — Apr 18, 2013
May 95.0°F — May 5, 1909 21.9°F — May 4, 1907 4.13 in — May 29, 2019
June 104.0°F — Jun 19, 1936 36.0°F — Jun 3, 1969 7.58 in — Jun 18, 1946
July 113.0°F — Jul 14, 1936 43.0°F — Jul 13, 1975 5.83 in — Jul 8, 2008
August 109.9°F — Aug 18, 1936 39.9°F — Aug 20, 1950 8.17 in — Aug 24, 2007
September 108.0°F — Sep 7, 1912 23.0°F — Sep 27, 1942 4.10 in — Sep 18, 1978
October 97.0°F — Oct 2, 1909 14.0°F — Oct 19, 1972 3.71 in — Oct 5, 1954
November 82.9°F — Nov 1, 1950 -11.0°F — Nov 30, 1964 3.19 in — Nov 17, 1958
December 70.0°F — Dec 5, 1998 -23.1°F — Dec 23, 1989 3.35 in — Dec 15, 1971

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