All-time weather records — Palouse, WA

Record high
109.9°F
August 4, 1961
Record low
-47.9°F
December 30, 1968
Wettest day
3.60 in
November 6, 2022

Climate change signal in Palouse

12.3%

of Palouse's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (45 of 366 records since 2015).

3.3%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (12 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
21
41
1920s
55
43
1930s
38
22
1940s
52
16
1950s
32
36
1960s
44
41
1970s
14
77
1980s
30
42
1990s
18
23
2000s
14
12
2010s
27
3
2020s
21
10

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 1915, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1915-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 62.1°F — Jan 27, 2015 -36.0°F — Jan 20, 1937 2.10 in — Jan 6, 1964
February 64.9°F — Feb 19, 1958 -32.1°F — Feb 2, 1996 1.75 in — Feb 26, 1948
March 75.9°F — Mar 28, 2025 -13.0°F — Mar 5, 1955 1.15 in — Mar 25, 1916
April 90.0°F — Apr 25, 1946 15.1°F — Apr 19, 1966 1.30 in — Apr 4, 1999
May 95.0°F — May 12, 1993 18.0°F — May 1, 1954 2.10 in — May 1, 1959
June 107.1°F — Jun 30, 2021 25.0°F — Jun 26, 1976 2.55 in — Jun 1, 1923
July 104.0°F — Jul 18, 1918 27.0°F — Jul 7, 1977 2.10 in — Jul 24, 1994
August 109.9°F — Aug 4, 1961 25.0°F — Aug 29, 1980 2.27 in — Aug 22, 1992
September 104.0°F — Sep 1, 2022 14.0°F — Sep 24, 1926 2.00 in — Sep 23, 1926
October 90.0°F — Oct 2, 1987 9.0°F — Oct 29, 1971 1.94 in — Oct 27, 1994
November 71.1°F — Nov 2, 1917 -20.0°F — Nov 15, 1955 3.60 in — Nov 6, 2022
December 64.9°F — Dec 6, 1939 -47.9°F — Dec 30, 1968 2.21 in — Dec 30, 2017

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