All-time weather records — Washington, AR

Record high
115.0°F
July 29, 1930
Record low
-8.0°F
January 18, 1930
Wettest day
8.52 in
August 31, 1974

Climate change signal in Washington

4.4%

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

4.1%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (15 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 #
1890s
·
4
1900s
16
6
1910s
10
5
1920s
121
28
1930s
88
35
1940s
11
41
1950s
44
30
1960s
15
53
1970s
14
28
1980s
14
58
1990s
7
28
2000s
6
27
2010s
13
15
2020s
7
8

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 1906, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1892-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 88.0°F — Jan 11, 1928 -8.0°F — Jan 18, 1930 7.00 in — Jan 22, 1938
February 87.1°F — Feb 21, 1986 -7.1°F — Feb 16, 2021 4.99 in — Feb 1, 1957
March 95.0°F — Mar 25, 1929 9.0°F — Mar 3, 1943 6.61 in — Mar 29, 1989
April 97.0°F — Apr 10, 1930 26.1°F — Apr 4, 1975 6.73 in — Apr 24, 1966
May 98.1°F — May 14, 1916 35.1°F — May 4, 2013 6.61 in — May 18, 1930
June 109.9°F — Jun 20, 1936 0.0°F — Jun 11, 2003 7.75 in — Jun 12, 1945
July 115.0°F — Jul 29, 1930 35.1°F — Jul 19, 1989 5.05 in — Jul 19, 1938
August 115.0°F — Aug 10, 1936 50.0°F — Aug 13, 1967 8.52 in — Aug 31, 1974
September 108.0°F — Sep 1, 2000 34.0°F — Sep 27, 1942 5.22 in — Sep 28, 1980
October 100.9°F — Oct 1, 1953 25.0°F — Oct 29, 1952 5.09 in — Oct 7, 2008
November 90.0°F — Nov 5, 1935 12.9°F — Nov 29, 1976 6.11 in — Nov 26, 1988
December 82.9°F — Dec 11, 1930 0.0°F — Dec 13, 2003 6.08 in — Dec 24, 2009

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