All-time weather records — Elk Mound, WI

Record high
104.0°F
July 15, 1988
Record low
-45.0°F
January 30, 1951
Wettest day
5.98 in
September 10, 2000

Climate change signal in Elk Mound

20.5%

of Elk Mound's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (75 of 366 records since 2015).

6.3%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (23 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 #
1940s
1
·
1950s
32
89
1960s
42
87
1970s
21
65
1980s
64
48
1990s
50
19
2000s
50
22
2010s
50
23
2020s
56
13

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 1949, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1949-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 54.0°F — Jan 25, 1981 -45.0°F — Jan 30, 1951 1.37 in — Jan 24, 1967
February 63.0°F — Mar 1, 2000 -35.0°F — Feb 2, 1996 1.00 in — Feb 25, 1951
March 84.0°F — Mar 29, 1986 -35.0°F — Mar 1, 1962 2.08 in — Mar 29, 1998
April 91.0°F — Apr 15, 2002 4.1°F — Apr 8, 2018 3.07 in — Apr 27, 1975
May 95.0°F — May 27, 2018 19.9°F — May 3, 1967 2.61 in — May 1, 1973
June 100.0°F — Jun 7, 2011 33.1°F — Jun 1, 1964 4.74 in — Jun 18, 2011
July 104.0°F — Jul 15, 1988 42.1°F — Jul 4, 1972 4.39 in — Jul 8, 1959
August 104.0°F — Aug 1, 1988 37.0°F — Aug 19, 1967 4.12 in — Aug 9, 1993
September 100.0°F — Sep 3, 2023 23.0°F — Sep 29, 1967 5.98 in — Sep 10, 2000
October 89.1°F — Oct 1, 1976 10.9°F — Oct 20, 1952 3.17 in — Oct 8, 1949
November 75.9°F — Nov 3, 2020 -18.0°F — Nov 30, 1964 3.24 in — Nov 1, 1991
December 64.0°F — Dec 5, 2001 -32.1°F — Dec 19, 1983 1.85 in — Dec 14, 2015

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