All-time weather records — Winter, WI

Record high
107.1°F
July 13, 1936
Record low
-60.0°F
February 20, 1989
Wettest day
8.40 in
August 30, 1941

Climate change signal in Winter

3.6%

of Winter's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (13 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 #
1910s
10
64
1920s
44
57
1930s
79
61
1940s
51
42
1950s
24
41
1960s
17
37
1970s
18
29
1980s
23
9
1990s
36
15
2000s
30
5
2010s
30
5
2020s
4
1

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 1916, the latest in 2020. Period of observation: 1915-2021.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 52.0°F — Jan 26, 1973 -52.1°F — Jan 28, 1915 2.45 in — Jan 19, 1996
February 60.1°F — Mar 1, 2000 -60.0°F — Feb 20, 1989 1.83 in — Mar 1, 2012
March 79.0°F — Mar 28, 1946 -40.0°F — Mar 5, 1917 2.10 in — Mar 16, 2016
April 88.0°F — Apr 22, 1980 -7.1°F — Apr 1, 1924 3.24 in — Apr 18, 2004
May 91.9°F — May 16, 1931 12.0°F — May 7, 2000 3.19 in — May 21, 1953
June 102.0°F — Jun 1, 1934 24.1°F — Jun 4, 1945 4.72 in — Jun 1, 2016
July 107.1°F — Jul 13, 1936 28.9°F — Jul 2, 1947 6.87 in — Jul 1, 1958
August 98.1°F — Aug 1, 2006 28.0°F — Aug 24, 1934 8.40 in — Aug 30, 1941
September 95.0°F — Sep 11, 1931 17.1°F — Sep 25, 1947 4.20 in — Sep 15, 1994
October 84.9°F — Oct 3, 1953 1.0°F — Oct 30, 1925 3.65 in — Oct 5, 2005
November 79.0°F — Nov 1, 1933 -27.0°F — Nov 28, 1976 2.08 in — Nov 10, 1975
December 60.1°F — Dec 2, 1998 -45.0°F — Dec 15, 1919 1.60 in — Dec 12, 1965

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