All-time weather records — Oakes, ND

Record high
115.0°F
July 6, 1936
Record low
-45.9°F
February 16, 1936
Wettest day
6.35 in
August 18, 1960

Climate change signal in Oakes

3.8%

of Oakes's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (14 of 366 records since 2015).

2.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (9 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 #
1920s
2
11
1930s
110
74
1940s
47
48
1950s
26
48
1960s
23
46
1970s
31
42
1980s
65
32
1990s
22
36
2000s
15
11
2010s
25
18

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 1929, the latest in 2018. Period of observation: 1922-2019.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 61.0°F — Jan 13, 1987 -44.0°F — Jan 22, 1937 0.80 in — Jan 20, 1937
February 68.0°F — Feb 26, 1958 -45.9°F — Feb 16, 1936 1.62 in — Feb 24, 1977
March 82.9°F — Mar 28, 1946 -27.9°F — Mar 1, 1962 2.22 in — Mar 3, 1966
April 100.9°F — Apr 22, 1980 -2.0°F — Apr 3, 1954 2.70 in — Apr 25, 1998
May 109.9°F — May 30, 1934 16.0°F — May 12, 1946 3.30 in — May 5, 2007
June 107.1°F — Jun 21, 1988 30.9°F — Jun 9, 1937 4.00 in — Jun 23, 2002
July 115.0°F — Jul 6, 1936 37.0°F — Jul 2, 1945 2.85 in — Jul 15, 1986
August 108.0°F — Aug 14, 1938 30.9°F — Aug 13, 1939 6.35 in — Aug 18, 1960
September 102.9°F — Sep 3, 1983 15.1°F — Sep 29, 1939 3.20 in — Sep 1, 1996
October 97.0°F — Oct 5, 1947 -4.0°F — Oct 26, 1936 2.75 in — Oct 15, 2009
November 75.9°F — Nov 6, 2016 -26.0°F — Nov 30, 1964 1.27 in — Nov 8, 1977
December 68.0°F — Dec 6, 1939 -40.0°F — Dec 31, 1967 0.73 in — Dec 26, 1950

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