All-time weather records — Poughkeepsie, NY

Record high
102.9°F
July 16, 1995
Record low
-20.0°F
January 21, 1994
Wettest day
5.69 in
October 9, 2005

Climate change signal in Poughkeepsie

18%

of Poughkeepsie's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (66 of 366 records since 2015).

15.8%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (58 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 #
1990s
87
151
2000s
170
129
2010s
109
86

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 1993, the latest in 2019. Period of observation: 1993-2019.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 71.1°F — Jan 7, 2007 -20.0°F — Jan 21, 1994 1.98 in — Jan 20, 1996
February 77.0°F — Feb 22, 2018 -13.0°F — Feb 5, 1996 1.71 in — Feb 13, 2019
March 86.0°F — Mar 31, 1998 -4.0°F — Mar 7, 2003 2.93 in — Mar 15, 2017
April 91.9°F — Apr 18, 2002 19.0°F — Apr 5, 2016 4.12 in — Apr 16, 2007
May 95.0°F — May 21, 1996 28.9°F — May 1, 2008 2.20 in — May 14, 2002
June 96.1°F — Jun 10, 2008 37.0°F — Jun 1, 2001 2.81 in — Jun 7, 2000
July 102.9°F — Jul 16, 1995 45.0°F — Jul 3, 2001 2.99 in — Jul 14, 1996
August 100.0°F — Aug 3, 2006 44.1°F — Aug 21, 1998 4.44 in — Aug 28, 2011
September 93.0°F — Sep 7, 2018 32.0°F — Sep 30, 2000 4.59 in — Sep 17, 1999
October 87.1°F — Oct 3, 2019 19.9°F — Oct 20, 1999 5.69 in — Oct 9, 2005
November 79.0°F — Nov 5, 1994 7.0°F — Nov 23, 2018 2.71 in — Nov 17, 2002
December 72.0°F — Dec 8, 1998 0.0°F — Dec 14, 2005 3.02 in — Dec 12, 2008

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