All-time weather records — Kennedy, AL

Record high
109.9°F
July 29, 1930
Record low
-5.1°F
January 30, 1966
Wettest day
9.27 in
May 13, 2025

Climate change signal in Kennedy

2.2%

of Kennedy's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (8 of 366 records since 2015).

1.4%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (5 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
·
1
1900s
14
1
1920s
15
6
1930s
20
6
1940s
56
53
1950s
97
85
1960s
27
58
1970s
33
59
1980s
28
41
1990s
19
25
2000s
46
24
2010s
3
2
2020s
8
5

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 1908, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1892-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 84.0°F — Jan 11, 1949 -5.1°F — Jan 30, 1966 6.14 in — Jan 6, 1950
February 84.9°F — Feb 24, 1996 0.0°F — Feb 2, 1951 4.50 in — Feb 6, 2004
March 91.0°F — Mar 24, 1929 8.1°F — Mar 4, 1943 8.00 in — Mar 20, 1970
April 99.0°F — Apr 16, 1982 25.0°F — Apr 1, 1942 8.01 in — Apr 13, 1979
May 100.9°F — May 6, 1982 32.0°F — May 4, 1971 9.27 in — May 13, 2025
June 105.1°F — Jun 28, 1954 41.0°F — Jun 3, 1956 4.62 in — Jun 24, 2018
July 109.9°F — Jul 29, 1930 48.9°F — Jul 6, 1970 4.28 in — Jul 31, 1944
August 106.0°F — Aug 8, 1930 6.1°F — Aug 11, 1989 5.15 in — Aug 7, 2003
September 106.0°F — Sep 1, 1951 33.1°F — Sep 30, 1967 7.76 in — Sep 5, 2011
October 97.0°F — Oct 7, 1954 21.0°F — Oct 30, 1952 5.23 in — Oct 26, 2019
November 87.1°F — Nov 1, 2000 6.1°F — Nov 25, 1950 4.60 in — Nov 28, 1948
December 86.0°F — Dec 28, 1908 -0.9°F — Dec 23, 1989 9.00 in — Dec 1, 2024

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