All-time weather records — Ellis, KS

Record high
334.9°F
March 1, 1944
Record low
-20.0°F
March 11, 1948
Wettest day
6.60 in
April 17, 2016

Climate change signal in Ellis

0%

of Ellis's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (0 of 366 records since 2015).

0%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (0 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 #
1930s
125
55
1940s
192
244
1950s
41
60
1960s
3
2
1970s
2
1
1980s
3
4
1990s
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·
2000s
·
·
2010s
·
·
2020s
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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 1937, the latest in 1981. Period of observation: 1894-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 79.0°F — Jan 22, 1943 -18.0°F — Jan 4, 1947 1.25 in — Jan 16, 2017
February 334.9°F — Mar 1, 1944 -17.0°F — Feb 1, 1951 1.88 in — Feb 19, 1971
March 93.0°F — Mar 31, 1946 -20.0°F — Mar 11, 1948 3.05 in — Mar 14, 2021
April 96.1°F — Apr 22, 1937 16.0°F — Apr 12, 1940 6.60 in — Apr 17, 2016
May 104.0°F — May 23, 1939 27.0°F — May 6, 1944 3.80 in — May 23, 1995
June 108.0°F — Jun 15, 1946 39.9°F — Jun 4, 1951 5.05 in — Jun 28, 1965
July 111.9°F — Jul 25, 1940 46.9°F — Jul 30, 1949 4.06 in — Jul 6, 1968
August 109.9°F — Aug 9, 1937 45.0°F — Aug 4, 1949 3.96 in — Aug 13, 1987
September 109.9°F — Sep 3, 1947 30.0°F — Sep 26, 1942 3.78 in — Sep 25, 2017
October 99.0°F — Oct 5, 1947 17.1°F — Oct 27, 1943 3.60 in — Oct 23, 2000
November 88.0°F — Nov 5, 1945 -2.9°F — Nov 13, 1940 2.37 in — Nov 16, 1961
December 80.1°F — Dec 6, 1939 -9.9°F — Dec 6, 1950 2.20 in — Dec 30, 2006

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