All-time weather records — Mitchell, NE

Record high
108.0°F
July 7, 1989
Record low
-41.1°F
December 21, 1989
Wettest day
3.40 in
August 3, 1987

Climate change signal in Mitchell

2.5%

of Mitchell's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (9 of 366 records since 2015).

0.8%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (3 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 #
1900s
3
3
1910s
33
71
1920s
15
24
1930s
80
57
1940s
29
32
1950s
39
35
1960s
14
45
1970s
16
28
1980s
44
39
1990s
37
21
2000s
35
4
2010s
21
7

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 1909, the latest in 2017. Period of observation: 1909-2017.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 73.0°F — Jan 27, 1982 -36.9°F — Jan 17, 1930 0.60 in — Jan 16, 1995
February 75.9°F — Feb 12, 1962 -35.0°F — Feb 8, 1936 0.77 in — Feb 22, 1992
March 84.9°F — Mar 29, 1943 -23.1°F — Mar 11, 1948 1.26 in — Mar 31, 1927
April 93.0°F — Apr 20, 1910 -13.0°F — Apr 2, 1975 3.00 in — Apr 11, 1996
May 100.9°F — May 29, 2003 15.1°F — May 11, 1922 2.50 in — May 15, 1991
June 107.1°F — Jun 24, 1954 30.0°F — Jun 2, 1964 2.98 in — Jun 22, 1952
July 108.0°F — Jul 7, 1989 36.0°F — Jul 31, 1913 2.10 in — Jul 20, 1973
August 106.0°F — Aug 9, 1932 27.0°F — Aug 25, 1910 3.40 in — Aug 3, 1987
September 100.0°F — Sep 6, 2013 16.0°F — Sep 25, 1926 2.56 in — Sep 29, 2014
October 93.0°F — Oct 10, 1910 -4.0°F — Oct 30, 1925 1.38 in — Oct 10, 2005
November 78.1°F — Nov 2, 1915 -20.9°F — Nov 13, 1916 2.59 in — Nov 2, 1998
December 75.0°F — Dec 6, 1939 -41.1°F — Dec 21, 1989 0.82 in — Dec 30, 1931

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