All-time weather records — Timber Lake, SD

Record high
444.0°F
October 18, 1938
Record low
-45.9°F
January 12, 1912
Wettest day
3.75 in
June 30, 1988

Climate change signal in Timber Lake

8.2%

of Timber Lake's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (30 of 366 records since 2015).

5.7%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (21 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
35
51
1920s
7
29
1930s
69
50
1940s
45
58
1950s
31
37
1960s
26
30
1970s
25
12
1980s
25
30
1990s
26
31
2000s
29
10
2010s
31
12
2020s
17
16

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 1912, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1911-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 68.0°F — Jan 18, 1919 -45.9°F — Jan 12, 1912 1.46 in — Jan 4, 1949
February 70.0°F — Feb 25, 1958 -36.9°F — Feb 15, 1936 2.09 in — Feb 28, 1951
March 84.0°F — Mar 27, 1946 -26.0°F — Mar 4, 1917 3.50 in — Mar 4, 1966
April 95.0°F — Apr 21, 1980 -2.9°F — Apr 3, 1936 2.50 in — Apr 28, 1989
May 100.0°F — May 27, 1969 15.1°F — May 5, 1944 3.16 in — May 13, 2023
June 108.0°F — Jun 24, 1936 30.9°F — Jun 2, 1946 3.75 in — Jun 30, 1988
July 115.0°F — Jul 6, 1936 30.0°F — Jul 11, 1926 3.05 in — Jul 3, 1995
August 109.0°F — Aug 3, 1947 30.9°F — Aug 14, 1929 3.23 in — Aug 23, 2014
September 106.0°F — Sep 9, 1931 12.0°F — Sep 20, 1916 2.10 in — Sep 9, 1927
October 444.0°F — Oct 18, 1938 -6.0°F — Oct 30, 1991 2.17 in — Oct 5, 1972
November 77.0°F — Nov 2, 1978 -20.0°F — Nov 27, 1985 1.14 in — Nov 2, 1956
December 70.0°F — Dec 4, 1965 -34.1°F — Dec 22, 1989 1.08 in — Dec 11, 1949

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