All-time weather records — Plains, KS

Record high
114.1°F
June 14, 1896
Record low
-23.1°F
February 12, 1899
Wettest day
7.76 in
May 15, 2003

Climate change signal in Plains

8.5%

of Plains's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (31 of 366 records since 2015).

10.4%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (38 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
76
25
1900s
10
17
1940s
2
2
1950s
62
53
1960s
33
48
1970s
28
43
1980s
53
46
1990s
32
51
2000s
23
28
2010s
35
38
2020s
12
15

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 1895, the latest in 2022. Period of observation: 1895-2023.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 82.9°F — Jan 20, 1986 -20.0°F — Jan 4, 1959 1.40 in — Jan 16, 2017
February 89.1°F — Feb 20, 1981 -23.1°F — Feb 12, 1899 3.40 in — Feb 9, 2001
March 93.9°F — Mar 20, 2017 -6.0°F — Mar 3, 1960 2.45 in — Mar 10, 1973
April 100.9°F — Apr 23, 1989 15.1°F — Apr 3, 1975 2.98 in — Apr 5, 1900
May 106.0°F — May 17, 1996 27.0°F — May 3, 1954 7.76 in — May 15, 2003
June 114.1°F — Jun 14, 1896 41.0°F — Jun 1, 1964 2.80 in — Jun 19, 1993
July 109.9°F — Jul 12, 1954 46.9°F — Jul 14, 1990 4.48 in — Jul 24, 1962
August 109.9°F — Aug 17, 1952 6.1°F — Aug 23, 1996 5.09 in — Aug 20, 1958
September 108.0°F — Sep 2, 1898 30.0°F — Sep 29, 1984 3.60 in — Sep 12, 1973
October 100.9°F — Oct 18, 2016 8.1°F — Oct 31, 2019 7.57 in — Oct 2, 1998
November 91.0°F — Nov 1, 2016 -0.9°F — Nov 16, 1902 2.36 in — Nov 17, 1971
December 88.0°F — Dec 24, 1955 -17.0°F — Dec 22, 1989 7.30 in — Dec 7, 2002

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