All-time weather records — Sweet Springs, MO

Record high
115.0°F
July 14, 1954
Record low
-24.0°F
January 5, 1959
Wettest day
7.03 in
July 21, 1996

Climate change signal in Sweet Springs

8.7%

of Sweet Springs's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (32 of 366 records since 2015).

7.1%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (26 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 #
1940s
44
50
1950s
92
62
1960s
50
70
1970s
30
60
1980s
56
44
1990s
25
25
2000s
25
15
2010s
25
21
2020s
19
19

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 1941, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1940-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 77.0°F — Jan 24, 1950 -24.0°F — Jan 5, 1959 2.36 in — Jan 3, 1971
February 82.9°F — Mar 1, 1972 -22.0°F — Feb 1, 1979 3.19 in — Feb 21, 1997
March 91.9°F — Mar 22, 2026 -20.0°F — Mar 5, 1960 3.20 in — Mar 13, 2024
April 93.0°F — Apr 29, 1987 17.1°F — Apr 3, 1975 4.30 in — Apr 21, 1973
May 96.1°F — May 21, 1956 28.9°F — May 1, 1963 3.60 in — May 26, 2009
June 106.0°F — Jun 24, 1988 34.0°F — Jun 18, 2000 4.70 in — Jun 26, 2015
July 115.0°F — Jul 14, 1954 44.1°F — Jul 21, 1944 7.03 in — Jul 21, 1996
August 109.0°F — Aug 1, 1980 42.1°F — Aug 28, 1986 4.30 in — Aug 1, 2016
September 104.0°F — Sep 4, 1947 26.1°F — Sep 28, 1942 5.93 in — Sep 13, 1961
October 96.1°F — Oct 2, 1953 14.0°F — Oct 29, 1952 4.39 in — Oct 4, 1973
November 84.0°F — Nov 4, 1978 -8.0°F — Nov 8, 1991 3.67 in — Nov 20, 1979
December 75.0°F — Dec 13, 1948 -23.1°F — Dec 23, 1989 4.85 in — Dec 2, 1982

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