All-time weather records — Mountain City, TX

Record high
111.0°F
August 23, 1917
Record low
-2.0°F
January 31, 1949
Wettest day
15.78 in
October 17, 1998

Climate change signal in Mountain City

7.4%

of Mountain City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (27 of 366 records since 2015).

1.4%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (5 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
1
2
1900s
3
27
1910s
25
32
1920s
137
34
1930s
45
44
1940s
29
44
1950s
22
39
1960s
16
40
1970s
8
34
1980s
10
29
1990s
17
5
2000s
11
6
2010s
20
27
2020s
22
3

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 1897, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 89.1°F — Jan 4, 1949 -2.0°F — Jan 31, 1949 6.12 in — Jan 25, 2012
February 99.0°F — Feb 21, 1996 5.0°F — Feb 2, 1951 4.92 in — Feb 5, 1955
March 100.0°F — Mar 30, 1925 0.0°F — Mar 31, 1999 4.43 in — Mar 28, 2018
April 102.0°F — Apr 2, 1939 30.0°F — Apr 3, 1936 6.60 in — Apr 21, 1926
May 106.0°F — May 24, 1925 39.9°F — May 1, 1908 7.37 in — May 15, 1970
June 109.0°F — Jun 15, 1998 21.9°F — Jun 12, 2005 13.98 in — Jun 14, 1981
July 109.9°F — Jul 27, 1954 55.9°F — Jul 16, 1967 7.32 in — Jul 29, 1902
August 111.0°F — Aug 23, 1917 50.0°F — Aug 29, 2010 5.39 in — Aug 27, 2017
September 111.0°F — Sep 5, 2000 39.0°F — Sep 28, 2010 8.00 in — Sep 9, 1921
October 100.9°F — Oct 2, 1938 27.0°F — Oct 30, 1917 15.78 in — Oct 17, 1998
November 98.1°F — Nov 1, 1934 17.1°F — Nov 29, 1976 9.07 in — Nov 24, 1985
December 91.0°F — Dec 11, 1987 3.9°F — Dec 22, 1989 10.00 in — Dec 4, 1913

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