All-time weather records — Hitchcock, SD

Record high
114.1°F
August 13, 1965
Record low
-47.0°F
February 9, 1994
Wettest day
7.40 in
May 6, 2007

Climate change signal in Hitchcock

0%

of Hitchcock'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 #
1940s
9
5
1950s
72
78
1960s
76
90
1970s
46
67
1980s
68
54
1990s
47
52
2000s
48
19
2010s
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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 1949, the latest in 2009. Period of observation: 1949-2011.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 63.0°F — Jan 24, 1981 -38.0°F — Jan 19, 1970 0.46 in — Jan 8, 1992
February 72.0°F — Feb 25, 1958 -47.0°F — Feb 9, 1994 1.75 in — Feb 27, 1958
March 82.9°F — Mar 31, 1963 -26.0°F — Mar 4, 1960 1.51 in — Mar 12, 1977
April 98.1°F — Apr 22, 1980 -8.0°F — Apr 3, 1975 2.00 in — Apr 12, 1970
May 102.0°F — May 1, 1959 14.0°F — May 3, 2005 7.40 in — May 6, 2007
June 109.9°F — Jun 25, 1988 28.9°F — Jun 2, 1964 3.84 in — Jun 17, 1992
July 113.0°F — Jul 10, 1966 36.0°F — Jul 30, 1971 3.80 in — Jul 7, 1994
August 114.1°F — Aug 13, 1965 30.9°F — Aug 20, 1950 2.68 in — Aug 20, 1966
September 106.0°F — Sep 6, 1978 16.0°F — Sep 28, 1951 2.04 in — Sep 21, 1989
October 97.0°F — Oct 5, 1963 7.0°F — Oct 7, 1952 2.28 in — Oct 17, 1998
November 79.0°F — Nov 9, 1999 -22.0°F — Nov 30, 1964 1.21 in — Nov 28, 2005
December 64.9°F — Dec 2, 1998 -36.0°F — Dec 30, 1990 1.16 in — Dec 7, 1951

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