All-time weather records — Fort Sumner, NM

Record high
109.0°F
June 29, 1918
Record low
-27.0°F
January 13, 1963
Wettest day
7.07 in
September 15, 1970

Climate change signal in Fort Sumner

0%

of Fort Sumner'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 #
1900s
1
3
1910s
54
83
1920s
49
45
1930s
57
28
1940s
27
31
1950s
58
33
1960s
16
48
1970s
16
30
1980s
30
35
1990s
15
21
2000s
34
8
2010s
9
1

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 1909, the latest in 2011. Period of observation: 1909-2011.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 80.1°F — Jan 3, 1927 -27.0°F — Jan 13, 1963 0.96 in — Jan 20, 1918
February 84.0°F — Feb 24, 2009 -16.1°F — Feb 1, 1951 1.40 in — Feb 22, 1923
March 91.9°F — Mar 12, 1989 1.9°F — Mar 1, 1922 2.29 in — Mar 21, 1919
April 98.1°F — Apr 26, 1927 14.0°F — Apr 4, 1920 3.95 in — Apr 29, 1999
May 102.0°F — May 17, 1927 27.0°F — May 3, 1929 3.05 in — May 28, 1937
June 109.0°F — Jun 29, 1918 39.9°F — Jun 2, 1917 3.54 in — Jun 28, 1978
July 109.0°F — Jul 14, 1958 50.0°F — Jul 13, 1964 3.15 in — Jul 14, 1991
August 106.0°F — Aug 2, 1911 6.1°F — Aug 6, 1910 4.10 in — Aug 23, 1986
September 102.9°F — Sep 2, 1939 32.0°F — Sep 21, 1983 7.07 in — Sep 15, 1970
October 95.0°F — Oct 3, 1934 12.0°F — Oct 31, 1991 4.51 in — Oct 6, 1954
November 89.1°F — Nov 9, 2006 0.0°F — Nov 28, 1976 1.63 in — Nov 16, 1964
December 82.0°F — Dec 9, 1939 -18.0°F — Dec 9, 1978 2.48 in — Dec 11, 1923

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