All-time weather records — McLaughlin, SD

Record high
111.9°F
July 16, 2006
Record low
-36.9°F
January 29, 1966
Wettest day
4.88 in
August 18, 2007

Climate change signal in McLaughlin

11.7%

of McLaughlin's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (43 of 366 records since 2015).

9.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (35 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 #
1910s
2
2
1940s
17
9
1950s
70
57
1960s
44
70
1970s
30
34
1980s
56
65
1990s
37
49
2000s
45
35
2010s
44
22
2020s
21
23

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 1919, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1919-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 66.0°F — Jan 23, 1981 -36.9°F — Jan 29, 1966 1.09 in — Jan 3, 1997
February 71.1°F — Feb 25, 1958 -36.9°F — Feb 11, 1988 1.20 in — Feb 26, 2009
March 86.0°F — Mar 19, 2012 -31.0°F — Mar 24, 1996 2.87 in — Mar 29, 1977
April 98.1°F — Apr 21, 1980 -4.0°F — Apr 1, 1975 2.57 in — Apr 28, 1989
May 100.0°F — May 27, 1969 15.1°F — May 3, 1967 3.59 in — May 25, 2013
June 109.9°F — Jun 29, 2002 27.0°F — Jun 2, 1969 4.75 in — Jun 30, 1988
July 111.9°F — Jul 16, 2006 37.0°F — Jul 3, 1967 3.63 in — Jul 12, 1981
August 108.0°F — Aug 18, 1959 34.0°F — Aug 12, 1964 4.88 in — Aug 18, 2007
September 104.0°F — Sep 8, 1959 16.0°F — Sep 26, 1965 2.16 in — Sep 11, 2019
October 93.9°F — Oct 4, 1963 -6.0°F — Oct 30, 1991 2.78 in — Oct 5, 2013
November 78.1°F — Nov 3, 2022 -25.1°F — Nov 24, 1985 1.56 in — Nov 2, 1956
December 70.0°F — Dec 2, 2021 -35.0°F — Dec 22, 1989 1.20 in — Dec 13, 1996

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