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Lincoln's Birthday

PERIOD OF RECORD: 155 YEARS (1871 - 2025)

Lincoln's Birthday is celebrated in the state of New York on February 12th.

The highest temperature ever recorded on Lincoln's Birthday is 63F degrees in 1999. The lowest the mercury has ever fallen to on Lincoln's Birthday is -10F in 1979. Normally, the high temperature averages 33F degrees and the low 19F degrees on Lincoln's Birthday.

Temperature (F) Data

Highest	63	1999
Lowest	-10	1979
Highest Minimum	42	1882
Lowest Maximum	-2	1914
Average High	33
Average Low	19

HIGH TEMPERATURE (F) BY 10 DEGREE RANGES

(since 1944; 82 years)

	Single Digits	Teens	20s	30s	40s	50s	60s
Number of occurrences	1	11	26	29	10	3	2
Percentage	1%	13%	32%	35%	12%	4%	2%

Single

Digits

Teens

20s

30s

40s

50s

60s

Number of occurrences

Percentage

13%

32%

35%

12%

Precipitation Data Snow Data

(since 1944; 82 years) (since 1944; 82 years)

Number of times 0.01" or greater:	49	Number of times 0.1" or greater:	47
Number of times 0.10" or greater:	20	Number of times 1.0" or greater:	15
Number of times 0.50" or greater:	2	Number of times 3.0" or greater:	4
		Number of times 6.0" or greater:	1

Precipitation Records

Greatest Snow	14.1"	1910
Greatest Precipitation	1.41"	1910

Almanac Data for Recent Lincoln Birthday's

Year	High	Low	Precip	Snow
1980	26	17	T	T
1981	13	5	T	T
1982	22	14	0.00	0.0
1983	25	13	T	T
1984	56	33	T	0.0

1985	40	33	0.38	1.6
1986	21	8	0.03	0.6
1987	32	21	0.06	0.6
1988	35	14	0.13	1.6
1989	31	17	0.02	0.2

1990	34	20	T	T
1991	25	12	0.01	0.4
1992	18	-6	T	T
1993	33	20	0.23	0.8
1994	36	1	T	T

1995	16	-1	0.09	2.6
1996	17	6	0.03	0.7
1997	28	13	0.14	1.7
1998	46	32	0.28	T
1999	63	29	0.20	0.6

2000	24	10	0.00	0.0
2001	39	12	0.00	0.0
2002	36	24	0.02	0.3
2003	21	10	0.25	4.8
2004	30	21	0.01	0.2

2005	34	24	0.20	2.5
2006	23	13	T	T
2007	27	13	T	T
2008	31	5	0.24	1.3
2009	51	32	0.88	2.7

2010	27	20	T	0.2
2011	29	14	0.08	3.0
2012	26	13	0.01	0.5
2013	33	31	0.01	0.3
2014	26	-3	0.00	0.0

2015	29	1	0.08	2.4
2016	23	12	0.19	4.9
2017	35	30	0.49	0.7
2018	28	14	T	T
2019	39	22	0.68	1.3

2020	36	27	0.04	0.3
2021	21	10	T	T
2022	38	17	T	0.3
2023	47	28	0.00	0.0
2024	37	29	0.00	0.0

2025	31	17	0.13	0.9
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