Springfield Climate -- Monthly and All-Time Records

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**Monthly Temperature Records**
Month	Warmest Temp (°F)	Date	Coldest Temp (°F)	Date	Coldest High (°F)	Date	Warmest Low (°F)	Date
January	73	1/23/1909	-22	1/5/1884	-12	1/5/1884	56	1/2/1897 1/7/1907
February	80	2/27/2024	-24	2/13/1905	-6	2/9/1899	57	2/25/2000
March	91	3/21/1907	-12	3/5/1960	12	3/4/1960	65	3/30/1998
April	90	4/10/1930 4/11/1930 4/25/1986	16	4/2/2018	30	4/1/1881 4/4/1920 4/5/1920	68	4/7/1893 4/17/1985 4/24/1960 4/28/1896
May	101	5/31/1934	28	5/10/1966	41	5/1/1909 5/6/1989	74	5/21/2004 5/25/1896
June	104	6/1/1934 6/27/1934 6/28/1934	39	6/1/2003	52	6/3/1945	82	6/29/1931
July	112	7/14/1954	48	7/6/1972 7/13/1975 7/14/1967 7/31/1971	63	7/14/1990	84	7/13/1936 7/14/1936 7/26/1936
August	108	8/8/1934 8/9/1934	43	8/13/1964 8/29/1986	61	8/26/1944 8/28/1917	83	8/21/1936 8/22/1936
September	101	9/1/1984	31	9/29/1899 9/30/1899	46	9/25/1942	77	9/6/1925
October	93	10/2/1953 10/3/1954 10/3/2006	13	10/30/1925	23	10/29/1925	73	10/3/1954
November	83	11/1/1950	-3	11/30/1964	6	11/24/1950	63	11/2/1987 11/3/1938 11/6/1924
December	74	12/3/1970 12/28/1984	-21	12/23/1989	-11	12/24/1983	61	12/2/1962

**Monthly Calendar Day Precipitation and Snowfall Records**
Month	Most Precipitation (in)	Date	Most Snowfall (in)	Date
January	2.41	1/7/1937	8.0	1/4/1882 1/9/1987
February	3.38	2/20/1898	15.0	2/28/1900
March	4.60	3/27/1898	17.0	3/24/2013
April	4.45	4/11/1979	6.1	4/14/1980
May	4.20	5/26/1893	0.6	5/2/1929
June	5.15	6/4/1917	-	-
July	4.33	7/27/1981	-	-
August	5.59	8/12/2016	-	-
September	5.44	9/8/1926	Trace	9/25/1942 9/26/1942
October	4.74	10/4/1941	1.8	10/29/1925
November	2.70	11/18/1881	7.8	11/6/1951
December	4.70	12/2/1982	10.9	12/19/1973

**Top 10 Wettest and Driest Months on Record**
Rank	Wettest	Month and Year	Rank	Driest	Month and Year
1	15.16 inches	September 1926	1	Trace	September 1979
2	13.39 inches	October 1941	2	0.01 inch	September 2017
3	12.71 inches	June 1882	3	0.02 inches	November 1904
4	12.01 inches	May 1889	4	0.04 inches	January 1986
5	11.32 inches	October 2009	5	0.05 inches	July 1886
6	10.90 inches	May 2013	6	0.09 inches	January 1919
7	10.77 inches	June 1917	7	0.10 inches	August 1943
8	10.76 inches	July 1981	8	0.11 inches	October 1904
9	10.72 inches	May 1996	9	0.14 inches	September 1939
10	10.68 inches	September 1911	10	0.15 inches	December 1955

*Longest Dry Streaks*
Rank	Days Without Measurable Precip	Dates
1	37	August 22 to September 28, 1939
2 (tie)	32	August 29 to September 30, 1979
2 (tie)	32	November 9 to December 11, 1904
2 (tie)	32	September 12 to October 14, 1892
5	31	December 14, 1955 to January 14, 1956

**Top 10 Snowiest Months on Record**
Rank	Snowiest	Month and Year
1	24.4 inches	February 1900
2	23.4 inches	March 1906
3	22.7 inches	December 1973
4	22.6 inches	February 2015
5	21.6 inches	December 1981
6	21.1 inches	January 1977
7	20.3 inches	March 1960
8	20.3 inches	January 1987
9	19.6 inches	March 2013
10	19.3 inches	January 1997

**All-Time Records**
Event	Value	Date
Record High Temperature	112 degrees	July 14, 1954
Record Coldest High Temperature	-12 degrees	January 5, 1884
Record Low Temperature	-24 degrees	February 13, 1905
Record Warmest Low Temperature	84 degrees	July 13-14, 1936 July 26, 1936
Record Precipitation (calendar day)	5.59 inches	August 12, 2016
Record Precipitation (24-hour period)	6.12 inches	December 2-3, 1982
Record Precipitation (1 month)	15.16 inches	September 1926
Record Snowfall (calendar day)	17.0 inches	March 24, 2013
Record Snowfall (24-hour period)	17.4 inches	March 24-25, 2013
Record Snowfall (1 month)	24.4 inches	February 1900
Record Snow Depth	16 inches	January 14-18, 1918 March 8, 1978 March 25, 2013

Temperature and precipitation records began in 1879.
Snowfall records began in 1881.

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