All-time weather records — Long Prairie, MN

Record high
105.1°F
July 28, 1917
Record low
-44.0°F
February 2, 1996
Wettest day
8.90 in
July 22, 1972

Climate change signal in Long Prairie

10.7%

of Long Prairie's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (39 of 366 records since 2015).

3.8%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (14 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
18
53
1900s
35
57
1910s
44
36
1930s
11
8
1940s
46
22
1950s
15
53
1960s
26
40
1970s
19
43
1980s
50
13
1990s
29
10
2000s
24
10
2010s
21
17
2020s
28
4

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 1893, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 57.0°F — Jan 25, 1942 -42.0°F — Jan 15, 1917 1.76 in — Jan 5, 1997
February 59.0°F — Feb 17, 1981 -44.0°F — Feb 2, 1996 1.17 in — Feb 25, 2001
March 82.9°F — Mar 23, 1910 -36.9°F — Mar 11, 1948 2.42 in — Mar 28, 1940
April 95.0°F — Apr 21, 1980 -7.1°F — Apr 4, 1975 2.50 in — Apr 7, 2001
May 96.1°F — May 26, 1911 14.0°F — May 3, 1907 3.60 in — May 24, 1939
June 100.9°F — Jun 24, 1937 28.9°F — Jun 6, 1897 5.00 in — Jun 14, 1943
July 105.1°F — Jul 28, 1917 35.1°F — Jul 4, 1967 8.90 in — Jul 22, 1972
August 104.0°F — Aug 10, 1947 28.0°F — Aug 27, 1982 4.52 in — Aug 26, 1955
September 100.0°F — Sep 4, 2023 12.9°F — Sep 29, 1917 3.01 in — Sep 25, 1906
October 90.0°F — Oct 2, 1953 3.0°F — Oct 31, 1951 3.46 in — Oct 1, 1995
November 75.9°F — Nov 5, 2020 -32.1°F — Nov 30, 1905 1.61 in — Nov 9, 1977
December 71.1°F — Dec 4, 1941 -38.9°F — Dec 19, 1983 1.25 in — Dec 16, 2021

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