All-time weather records — Fair Play, MO

Record high
115.0°F
July 14, 1954
Record low
-61.1°F
May 8, 1963
Wettest day
9.22 in
September 15, 1914

Climate change signal in Fair Play

10.4%

of Fair Play's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (38 of 366 records since 2015).

5.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (20 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
18
8
1910s
104
50
1920s
22
28
1930s
23
2
1940s
19
17
1950s
56
23
1960s
26
20
1970s
6
57
1980s
24
114
1990s
8
9
2000s
13
8
2010s
17
16
2020s
30
14

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 1905, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1905-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 77.0°F — Jan 22, 1909 -25.1°F — Jan 13, 1912 3.54 in — Jan 11, 2020
February 86.0°F — Feb 16, 1921 -18.9°F — Feb 1, 1979 4.54 in — Feb 23, 1985
March 90.0°F — Mar 21, 1916 -7.1°F — Mar 7, 1943 3.32 in — Mar 29, 1988
April 93.0°F — Apr 19, 2006 16.0°F — Apr 4, 1987 4.61 in — Apr 30, 2017
May 100.0°F — May 31, 1913 -61.1°F — May 8, 1963 5.41 in — May 22, 1989
June 104.0°F — Jun 29, 1952 39.0°F — Jun 5, 1921 5.81 in — Jun 17, 2015
July 115.0°F — Jul 14, 1954 30.0°F — Jul 21, 2012 5.50 in — Jul 3, 1976
August 108.0°F — Aug 4, 1913 36.0°F — Aug 29, 1988 4.74 in — Aug 6, 2017
September 108.0°F — Sep 4, 1913 19.0°F — Sep 24, 1989 9.22 in — Sep 15, 1914
October 98.1°F — Oct 1, 1910 17.1°F — Oct 29, 1910 4.83 in — Oct 10, 1919
November 87.1°F — Nov 3, 1922 -0.9°F — Nov 29, 1989 3.52 in — Nov 14, 1985
December 89.1°F — Dec 31, 1905 -18.9°F — Dec 24, 1989 4.08 in — Dec 27, 2015

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