All-time weather records — Lamar, AR

Record high
111.9°F
August 4, 2011
Record low
3.0°F
February 4, 1996
Wettest day
5.35 in
November 5, 1994

Climate change signal in Lamar

5.2%

of Lamar's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (19 of 366 records since 2015).

9.3%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (34 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 #
1990s
89
116
2000s
150
145
2010s
127
105

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 1994, the latest in 2016. Period of observation: 1993-2016.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 75.0°F — Jan 4, 2009 6.1°F — Jan 8, 2010 5.10 in — Jan 5, 1998
February 80.1°F — Feb 16, 2005 3.0°F — Feb 4, 1996 2.51 in — Feb 1, 2002
March 88.0°F — Mar 23, 1995 10.0°F — Mar 3, 2002 5.10 in — Mar 19, 2008
April 95.0°F — Apr 19, 2006 25.0°F — Apr 8, 2007 3.28 in — Apr 8, 2002
May 96.1°F — May 29, 2012 36.0°F — May 3, 2013 3.50 in — May 11, 2015
June 107.1°F — Jun 26, 2012 52.0°F — Jun 6, 1998 4.03 in — Jun 16, 2004
July 107.1°F — Jul 21, 2012 55.0°F — Jul 5, 2013 3.92 in — Jul 9, 2016
August 111.9°F — Aug 4, 2011 54.0°F — Aug 20, 2015 2.98 in — Aug 14, 2002
September 107.1°F — Sep 1, 2000 39.9°F — Sep 23, 1995 3.48 in — Sep 4, 2008
October 93.0°F — Oct 1, 1998 30.0°F — Oct 28, 2008 3.40 in — Oct 6, 1998
November 87.1°F — Nov 5, 2003 18.0°F — Nov 18, 2014 5.35 in — Nov 5, 1994
December 79.0°F — Dec 6, 1998 9.0°F — Dec 9, 2005 4.22 in — Dec 28, 2015

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