All-time weather records — Tropic, UT

Record high
98.1°F
July 14, 2002
Record low
-26.0°F
January 13, 1963
Wettest day
3.26 in
January 12, 2005

Climate change signal in Tropic

16.7%

of Tropic's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (61 of 366 records since 2015).

4.9%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (18 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 #
1950s
3
4
1960s
52
114
1970s
66
100
1980s
76
64
1990s
42
35
2000s
54
28
2010s
42
6
2020s
31
15

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 1959, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1959-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 59.0°F — Jan 11, 1986 -26.0°F — Jan 13, 1963 3.26 in — Jan 12, 2005
February 64.0°F — Feb 26, 1986 -26.0°F — Feb 6, 1989 2.29 in — Feb 9, 1993
March 66.9°F — Mar 21, 1997 -11.0°F — Mar 4, 1966 1.75 in — Mar 3, 1983
April 75.0°F — Apr 28, 2000 -2.9°F — Apr 2, 1975 1.19 in — Apr 4, 1965
May 84.9°F — May 31, 2002 10.0°F — May 28, 1988 1.60 in — May 9, 2015
June 91.9°F — Jun 21, 1981 21.0°F — Jun 15, 1976 1.17 in — Jun 7, 1972
July 98.1°F — Jul 14, 2002 28.0°F — Jul 6, 1982 1.53 in — Jul 23, 2021
August 90.0°F — Aug 1, 2000 23.0°F — Aug 31, 1962 2.17 in — Aug 9, 1997
September 89.1°F — Sep 6, 2020 16.0°F — Sep 19, 1971 3.15 in — Sep 18, 1963
October 79.0°F — Oct 1, 1980 0.0°F — Oct 30, 1971 2.07 in — Oct 19, 1972
November 68.0°F — Nov 3, 1976 -16.1°F — Nov 25, 2010 2.60 in — Nov 28, 2004
December 60.1°F — Dec 2, 1995 -23.1°F — Dec 18, 2023 2.00 in — Dec 15, 2015

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