All-time weather records — Sylva, NC

Record high
99.0°F
July 12, 1930
Record low
-18.9°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
6.24 in
June 30, 2001

Climate change signal in Sylva

9%

of Sylva's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (33 of 366 records since 2015).

0.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (2 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
·
1
1910s
47
46
1920s
61
50
1930s
54
38
1940s
39
40
1950s
34
40
1960s
15
67
1970s
12
34
1980s
27
28
1990s
14
9
2000s
18
7
2010s
27
6
2020s
18
·

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 1910, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1909-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 79.0°F — Jan 24, 1943 -18.9°F — Jan 21, 1985 3.50 in — Jan 31, 1957
February 79.0°F — Feb 25, 1930 -14.1°F — Feb 18, 1958 4.30 in — Feb 16, 1990
March 87.1°F — Mar 25, 1929 -0.9°F — Mar 15, 1993 5.00 in — Mar 27, 1994
April 91.0°F — Apr 24, 1925 17.1°F — Apr 1, 1923 2.91 in — Apr 4, 1974
May 91.9°F — May 19, 1996 26.1°F — May 4, 1971 4.02 in — May 28, 1973
June 98.1°F — Jun 29, 1936 33.1°F — Jun 1, 1966 6.24 in — Jun 30, 2001
July 99.0°F — Jul 12, 1930 43.0°F — Jul 5, 1933 4.05 in — Jul 4, 2013
August 98.1°F — Aug 13, 1987 37.9°F — Aug 25, 1925 3.77 in — Aug 7, 1978
September 97.0°F — Sep 5, 1925 27.0°F — Sep 28, 1947 5.75 in — Sep 27, 2024
October 98.1°F — Oct 29, 1981 14.0°F — Oct 30, 1952 3.79 in — Oct 4, 1995
November 82.0°F — Nov 4, 2003 3.9°F — Nov 26, 1950 3.20 in — Nov 28, 1948
December 80.1°F — Dec 31, 1951 -11.0°F — Dec 30, 1917 3.50 in — Dec 26, 2010

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