All-time weather records — Roscoe, SD

Record high
111.9°F
July 16, 2006
Record low
-36.9°F
January 15, 1972
Wettest day
4.30 in
July 8, 2022

Climate change signal in Roscoe

11.2%

of Roscoe's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (41 of 366 records since 2015).

8.7%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (32 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 #
1930s
·
1
1940s
19
5
1950s
96
84
1960s
59
88
1970s
20
27
1980s
3
8
1990s
45
71
2000s
64
34
2010s
42
32
2020s
18
16

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 1948, the latest in 2023. Period of observation: 1934-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 59.0°F — Jan 6, 2012 -36.9°F — Jan 15, 1972 1.29 in — Jan 27, 1944
February 69.1°F — Feb 25, 1958 -34.1°F — Feb 9, 1994 1.09 in — Feb 27, 1969
March 82.9°F — Mar 17, 2012 -24.0°F — Mar 1, 1962 2.03 in — Mar 3, 1966
April 93.9°F — Apr 25, 1962 1.0°F — Apr 7, 2018 1.81 in — Apr 19, 1957
May 102.0°F — May 27, 1969 17.1°F — May 3, 2005 2.93 in — May 9, 1995
June 107.1°F — Jun 30, 2002 28.9°F — Jun 3, 1951 4.28 in — Jun 18, 1964
July 111.9°F — Jul 16, 2006 37.9°F — Jul 3, 1967 4.30 in — Jul 8, 2022
August 108.0°F — Aug 18, 1959 36.0°F — Aug 31, 1958 3.83 in — Aug 5, 2000
September 102.0°F — Sep 15, 1948 21.0°F — Sep 28, 1951 2.58 in — Sep 20, 1996
October 93.0°F — Oct 5, 1970 -2.0°F — Oct 30, 1991 2.94 in — Oct 17, 1998
November 78.1°F — Nov 3, 2022 -18.9°F — Nov 14, 1959 1.50 in — Nov 26, 1944
December 64.0°F — Dec 2, 2021 -35.0°F — Dec 31, 1967 1.17 in — Dec 26, 2016

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