All-time weather records — Sturgeon Lake, MN

Record high
104.0°F
July 11, 1936
Record low
-53.0°F
January 15, 1972
Wettest day
5.50 in
July 11, 2016

Climate change signal in Sturgeon Lake

4.1%

of Sturgeon Lake's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (15 of 366 records since 2015).

0.3%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (1 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
18
45
1920s
2
9
1930s
43
39
1940s
47
43
1950s
40
76
1960s
39
34
1970s
26
58
1980s
49
51
1990s
39
3
2000s
27
3
2010s
34
5
2020s
2
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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 1913, the latest in 2021. Period of observation: 1913-2021.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 55.0°F — Jan 23, 1942 -53.0°F — Jan 15, 1972 1.51 in — Jan 11, 1975
February 57.0°F — Feb 18, 1981 -41.1°F — Feb 3, 1982 1.41 in — Feb 27, 1971
March 80.1°F — Mar 28, 1946 -41.1°F — Mar 11, 1948 2.10 in — Mar 15, 1945
April 91.9°F — Apr 21, 1980 -8.0°F — Apr 2, 1975 2.52 in — Apr 23, 2001
May 93.0°F — May 29, 1934 16.0°F — May 3, 1967 2.50 in — May 10, 1979
June 99.0°F — Jun 1, 1934 26.1°F — Jun 9, 1988 4.15 in — Jun 20, 1953
July 104.0°F — Jul 11, 1936 34.0°F — Jul 4, 1932 5.50 in — Jul 11, 2016
August 99.0°F — Aug 1, 2006 28.9°F — Aug 29, 1917 4.42 in — Aug 31, 1989
September 97.0°F — Sep 7, 1976 18.0°F — Sep 22, 1974 4.85 in — Sep 30, 2019
October 87.1°F — Oct 2, 1953 1.9°F — Oct 25, 1933 2.79 in — Oct 26, 2010
November 72.0°F — Nov 4, 1975 -31.0°F — Nov 28, 1976 2.80 in — Nov 30, 2010
December 57.0°F — Dec 1, 1962 -49.0°F — Dec 31, 1946 1.30 in — Dec 14, 2009

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