All-time weather records — Fifty Lakes, MN

Record high
104.0°F
July 28, 1917
Record low
-53.0°F
January 12, 1912
Wettest day
7.10 in
June 3, 1898

Climate change signal in Fifty Lakes

9.3%

of Fifty Lakes's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (34 of 366 records since 2015).

0.3%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (1 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 #
1890s
3
16
1900s
25
45
1910s
47
51
1920s
16
73
1930s
42
44
1940s
20
24
1950s
22
29
1960s
20
18
1970s
24
33
1980s
50
19
1990s
23
10
2000s
31
2
2010s
19
2
2020s
24
·

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 1897, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 57.0°F — Jan 24, 1981 -53.0°F — Jan 12, 1912 1.75 in — Jan 11, 1975
February 79.0°F — Feb 3, 1983 -51.0°F — Feb 4, 1907 1.80 in — Feb 26, 2001
March 82.0°F — Mar 23, 1910 -41.1°F — Mar 1, 1962 2.20 in — Mar 4, 1985
April 96.1°F — Apr 21, 1980 -8.0°F — Apr 3, 1954 2.67 in — Apr 16, 2012
May 102.9°F — May 31, 1934 3.9°F — May 1, 1909 4.45 in — May 20, 1902
June 100.0°F — Jun 30, 1921 24.1°F — Jun 30, 1925 7.10 in — Jun 3, 1898
July 104.0°F — Jul 28, 1917 10.0°F — Jul 30, 1956 5.01 in — Jul 28, 1972
August 100.9°F — Aug 18, 1976 28.9°F — Aug 21, 1925 4.43 in — Aug 8, 1899
September 99.0°F — Sep 10, 1931 17.1°F — Sep 21, 1934 3.38 in — Sep 14, 1941
October 88.0°F — Oct 2, 1953 0.0°F — Oct 30, 1925 4.50 in — Oct 3, 1903
November 75.9°F — Nov 3, 1922 -26.0°F — Nov 30, 1905 2.75 in — Nov 27, 1988
December 66.0°F — Dec 24, 1919 -47.0°F — Dec 25, 1933 2.10 in — Dec 26, 2023

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