All-time weather records — Shumway, IL

Record high
111.0°F
July 14, 1954
Record low
-29.0°F
January 24, 1915
Wettest day
5.70 in
June 7, 2008

Climate change signal in Shumway

6.8%

of Shumway's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (25 of 366 records since 2015).

1.1%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (4 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
22
30
1900s
9
10
1910s
38
57
1920s
51
51
1930s
70
25
1940s
14
33
1950s
40
35
1960s
24
26
1970s
13
33
1980s
15
33
1990s
6
12
2000s
22
10
2010s
39
11
2020s
3
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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 1893, the latest in 2020. Period of observation: 1893-2020.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 72.0°F — Jan 25, 1950 -29.0°F — Jan 24, 1915 3.82 in — Jan 3, 1950
February 78.1°F — Mar 1, 1972 -18.9°F — Feb 8, 1895 2.78 in — Feb 11, 2009
March 89.1°F — Mar 24, 1929 -11.0°F — Mar 5, 1978 3.30 in — Mar 14, 1922
April 91.0°F — Apr 11, 1930 21.0°F — Apr 1, 1923 3.25 in — Apr 28, 2016
May 98.1°F — May 29, 1895 28.0°F — May 1, 1903 4.41 in — May 1, 1946
June 106.0°F — Jun 26, 1954 35.1°F — Jun 16, 1917 5.70 in — Jun 7, 2008
July 111.0°F — Jul 14, 1954 45.0°F — Jul 21, 1944 5.25 in — Jul 5, 2000
August 109.9°F — Aug 4, 1918 39.0°F — Aug 31, 1915 5.66 in — Aug 13, 1973
September 105.1°F — Sep 4, 1954 24.1°F — Sep 26, 1928 5.22 in — Sep 29, 1955
October 95.0°F — Oct 2, 2019 15.1°F — Oct 29, 1952 4.45 in — Oct 9, 2009
November 84.0°F — Nov 2, 2016 -6.0°F — Nov 25, 1950 3.17 in — Nov 1, 1946
December 73.9°F — Dec 15, 1948 -20.0°F — Dec 21, 1989 3.56 in — Dec 27, 2015

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