All-time weather records — Sugar Mountain, NC

Record high
98.1°F
June 21, 1948
Record low
-31.0°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
10.67 in
October 5, 2007

Climate change signal in Sugar Mountain

4.1%

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

1.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (6 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 #
1900s
4
7
1910s
33
45
1920s
63
52
1930s
99
54
1940s
48
34
1950s
15
29
1960s
4
33
1970s
12
34
1980s
28
33
1990s
22
21
2000s
14
10
2010s
16
13
2020s
8
1

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 1908, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1907-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 73.9°F — Jan 9, 1930 -31.0°F — Jan 21, 1985 6.30 in — Jan 15, 1995
February 75.0°F — Feb 10, 1932 -13.0°F — Feb 5, 1996 3.80 in — Feb 14, 1984
March 82.0°F — Mar 25, 1929 -9.0°F — Mar 14, 1993 8.00 in — Mar 4, 1912
April 86.0°F — Apr 24, 1925 7.0°F — Apr 1, 1923 4.06 in — Apr 5, 1957
May 89.1°F — May 6, 1932 19.0°F — May 1, 1935 6.60 in — May 6, 2013
June 98.1°F — Jun 21, 1948 21.9°F — Jun 8, 1982 4.26 in — Jun 21, 1972
July 95.0°F — Jul 21, 1926 35.1°F — Jul 16, 1926 8.66 in — Jul 16, 1916
August 97.0°F — Aug 9, 1944 0.0°F — Aug 18, 1997 8.50 in — Aug 13, 1940
September 93.0°F — Sep 4, 1925 0.0°F — Sep 23, 1997 9.60 in — Sep 2, 1910
October 86.0°F — Oct 6, 1941 8.1°F — Oct 21, 1952 10.67 in — Oct 5, 2007
November 75.9°F — Nov 4, 1994 -7.1°F — Nov 30, 1929 5.08 in — Nov 5, 1938
December 75.0°F — Dec 18, 1924 -20.9°F — Dec 30, 1917 2.60 in — Dec 26, 2023

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