All-time weather records — Lake City, SC

Record high
106.0°F
June 27, 1954
Record low
1.9°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
8.20 in
September 5, 1979

Climate change signal in Lake City

6.6%

of Lake City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (24 of 366 records since 2015).

2.7%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (10 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 #
1930s
19
9
1940s
69
40
1950s
73
31
1960s
43
45
1970s
16
66
1980s
61
105
1990s
25
21
2000s
28
26
2010s
27
21
2020s
5
2

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 1938, the latest in 2023. Period of observation: 1937-2024.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 81.0°F — Jan 1, 1985 1.9°F — Jan 21, 1985 3.60 in — Jan 24, 1999
February 84.9°F — Feb 25, 2023 5.0°F — Feb 12, 1973 3.68 in — Feb 17, 1998
March 91.9°F — Mar 18, 1945 10.0°F — Mar 3, 1980 6.50 in — Mar 18, 1983
April 93.9°F — Apr 22, 2002 26.1°F — Apr 1, 1964 3.57 in — Apr 16, 2018
May 102.0°F — May 22, 1938 35.1°F — May 8, 1989 6.00 in — May 16, 2014
June 106.0°F — Jun 27, 1954 46.0°F — Jun 1, 1984 4.39 in — Jun 4, 1940
July 105.1°F — Jul 20, 1986 53.1°F — Jul 2, 1988 4.20 in — Jul 29, 1960
August 106.0°F — Aug 17, 1954 53.1°F — Aug 12, 2008 5.38 in — Aug 20, 1986
September 102.9°F — Sep 4, 1944 42.1°F — Sep 20, 1984 8.20 in — Sep 5, 1979
October 100.9°F — Oct 5, 1954 3.9°F — Oct 31, 1988 7.30 in — Oct 11, 1990
November 89.1°F — Nov 1, 1961 17.1°F — Nov 25, 1950 2.90 in — Nov 27, 2013
December 82.9°F — Dec 8, 1998 6.1°F — Dec 25, 1989 6.44 in — Dec 23, 1994

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