All-time weather records — Elgin, KS

Record high
73.0°F
December 10, 1896
Record low
°F
March 1,
Wettest day
9.60 in
November 21, 1979

Climate change signal in Elgin

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of Elgin's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (0 of 90 records since 2015).

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of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (0 of 90 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
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1940s
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1950s
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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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 1896, the latest in 1897. Period of observation: 1896-2007.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 62.1°F — Jan 1, 1897 -2.0°F — Jan 27, 1897 2.77 in — Jan 5, 2005
February 72.0°F — Feb 20, 1897 3.16 in — Feb 21, 1997
March 4.08 in — Mar 21, 2007
April 5.03 in — Apr 10, 1944
May 7.90 in — May 15, 1990
June 6.09 in — Jun 11, 1967
July 8.09 in — Jul 22, 1959
August 5.66 in — Aug 8, 1986
September 7.79 in — Sep 30, 1986
October 9.20 in — Oct 13, 1984
November 9.60 in — Nov 21, 1979
December 73.0°F — Dec 10, 1896 17.1°F — Dec 1, 1896 2.34 in — Dec 4, 1999

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