All-time weather records — Tell City, IN

Record high
106.0°F
September 7, 1954
Record low
-17.0°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
6.24 in
August 1, 1950

Climate change signal in Tell City

4.4%

of Tell City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (16 of 366 records since 2015).

4.4%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (16 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 #
1930s
15
1
1940s
141
53
1950s
73
54
1960s
29
95
1970s
9
56
1980s
33
65
1990s
16
20
2000s
17
5
2010s
24
12
2020s
9
5

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 1939, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1937-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 79.0°F — Jan 24, 1943 -17.0°F — Jan 21, 1985 3.51 in — Jan 23, 1999
February 87.1°F — Feb 1, 2002 -8.0°F — Feb 2, 1951 3.80 in — Feb 16, 2025
March 88.0°F — Mar 25, 1945 -0.9°F — Mar 3, 1980 5.01 in — Mar 19, 1943
April 91.0°F — Apr 14, 1941 19.9°F — Apr 8, 1971 6.05 in — Apr 28, 1970
May 96.1°F — May 20, 1941 30.0°F — May 1, 1963 3.93 in — May 25, 2006
June 105.1°F — Jun 30, 2012 42.1°F — Jun 1, 1966 4.56 in — Jun 18, 1939
July 105.1°F — Jul 29, 1952 46.9°F — Jul 2, 1959 3.20 in — Jul 15, 1981
August 104.0°F — Aug 26, 1943 46.0°F — Aug 30, 1986 6.24 in — Aug 1, 1950
September 106.0°F — Sep 7, 1954 30.9°F — Sep 28, 1942 4.43 in — Sep 27, 2002
October 96.1°F — Oct 1, 1953 21.0°F — Oct 29, 1952 5.91 in — Oct 6, 2013
November 86.0°F — Nov 1, 1950 -11.9°F — Nov 30, 2002 3.89 in — Nov 1, 2018
December 80.1°F — Dec 15, 1984 -14.1°F — Dec 22, 1989 2.79 in — Dec 18, 2016

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