All-time weather records — Lake City, MN

Record high
99.0°F
September 2, 1898
Record low
°F
March 1,
Wettest day
5.60 in
May 28, 1970

Climate change signal in Lake City

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of Lake City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (0 of 365 records since 2015).

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of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (0 of 365 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
331
350
1900s
34
15
1940s
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1950s
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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2010s
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2020s
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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 1896, the latest in 1900. Period of observation: 1896-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 46.9°F — Jan 22, 1900 -27.0°F — Jan 24, 1897 2.03 in — Jan 19, 1982
February 48.0°F — Feb 8, 1897 — 1.93 in — Feb 21, 2011
March 62.1°F — Mar 8, 1898 -16.1°F — Mar 7, 1899 1.80 in — Mar 3, 1970
April 84.9°F — Apr 25, 1899 12.0°F — Apr 1, 1899 3.20 in — Apr 28, 1975
May 91.0°F — May 18, 1897 30.0°F — May 2, 1897 5.60 in — May 28, 1970
June 98.1°F — Jun 14, 1897 28.0°F — Jun 1, 1897 4.25 in — Jun 13, 1950
July 98.1°F — Jul 17, 1898 42.1°F — Jul 30, 1899 5.25 in — Jul 1, 1978
August 98.1°F — Aug 22, 1898 44.1°F — Aug 19, 1897 4.47 in — Aug 11, 2016
September 99.0°F — Sep 2, 1898 21.0°F — Sep 30, 1899 4.56 in — Sep 23, 2010
October 87.1°F — Oct 4, 1897 24.1°F — Oct 31, 1898 3.30 in — Oct 15, 1966
November 71.1°F — Nov 20, 1897 -17.0°F — Nov 24, 1898 3.04 in — Nov 21, 1996
December 46.9°F — Dec 8, 1899 -25.1°F — Dec 31, 1898 1.30 in — Dec 6, 1996

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