All-time weather records — Yazoo City, MS

Record high
106.0°F
July 16, 1980
Record low
-4.0°F
January 12, 1962
Wettest day
7.75 in
October 17, 2006

Climate change signal in Yazoo City

17.8%

of Yazoo City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (65 of 366 records since 2015).

0.3%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (1 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 #
1960s
60
146
1970s
53
62
1980s
64
60
1990s
32
42
2000s
23
45
2010s
134
11

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 1960, the latest in 2018. Period of observation: 1960-2018.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 84.0°F — Jan 24, 1972 -4.0°F — Jan 12, 1962 4.98 in — Jan 18, 2001
February 91.9°F — Feb 25, 2011 3.9°F — Feb 14, 1960 3.95 in — Feb 10, 1966
March 91.0°F — Mar 22, 2017 15.1°F — Mar 9, 1996 5.75 in — Mar 17, 1987
April 93.9°F — Apr 21, 1987 28.0°F — Apr 4, 1987 6.69 in — Apr 7, 2014
May 98.1°F — May 27, 1978 39.0°F — May 4, 1971 4.41 in — May 29, 1995
June 102.0°F — Jun 29, 1988 50.0°F — Jun 3, 1969 4.73 in — Jun 24, 1980
July 106.0°F — Jul 16, 1980 53.1°F — Jul 15, 1967 3.61 in — Jul 4, 1976
August 106.0°F — Aug 4, 2010 27.0°F — Aug 3, 2003 6.50 in — Aug 30, 2005
September 102.9°F — Sep 1, 2011 35.1°F — Sep 29, 1967 3.86 in — Sep 26, 2002
October 96.1°F — Oct 2, 1998 28.0°F — Oct 21, 1960 7.75 in — Oct 17, 2006
November 89.1°F — Nov 1, 2016 18.0°F — Nov 30, 1976 4.56 in — Nov 16, 1987
December 86.0°F — Dec 27, 2015 1.9°F — Dec 23, 1989 6.35 in — Dec 24, 1973

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