All-time weather records — Orchard, NE

Record high
114.1°F
July 17, 1936
Record low
-38.0°F
January 12, 1912
Wettest day
10.00 in
January 31, 2011

Climate change signal in Orchard

3%

of Orchard's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (11 of 366 records since 2015).

6.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (24 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
·
·
1900s
6
11
1910s
88
62
1920s
30
56
1930s
84
33
1940s
27
33
1950s
23
28
1960s
19
35
1970s
9
19
1980s
29
27
1990s
18
15
2000s
14
15
2010s
19
31
2020s
·
1

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 1908, the latest in 2017. Period of observation: 1893-2020.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 73.0°F — Jan 24, 1981 -38.0°F — Jan 12, 1912 10.00 in — Jan 31, 2011
February 78.1°F — Feb 22, 1982 -36.9°F — Feb 8, 1933 2.00 in — Feb 11, 2008
March 93.9°F — Mar 30, 1943 -26.0°F — Mar 4, 1960 3.29 in — Mar 17, 1987
April 106.0°F — Apr 28, 1910 -9.0°F — Apr 17, 2020 2.95 in — Apr 29, 1896
May 106.0°F — May 29, 1934 19.0°F — May 2, 1908 5.20 in — May 21, 1977
June 107.1°F — Jun 15, 1913 30.9°F — Jun 1, 1956 4.13 in — Jun 24, 1966
July 114.1°F — Jul 17, 1936 33.1°F — Jul 3, 2001 4.02 in — Jul 13, 1937
August 111.0°F — Aug 4, 1934 24.1°F — Aug 23, 2015 4.10 in — Aug 12, 1985
September 109.0°F — Sep 5, 1913 18.0°F — Sep 25, 1926 3.34 in — Sep 11, 1949
October 98.1°F — Oct 1, 1963 1.0°F — Oct 29, 1913 4.08 in — Oct 1, 1950
November 91.9°F — Nov 3, 1916 -20.0°F — Nov 14, 1959 2.40 in — Nov 20, 1975
December 75.0°F — Dec 6, 1939 -32.1°F — Dec 22, 1989 1.52 in — Dec 3, 1953

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