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Top Ten Climate Records for the Tri-State Area
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Top Ten Coldest Temperatures |
Top Ten Warmest Temperatures |
| -38 Culbertson, Nebraska (12FEB1899) | 118 Atwood, Kansas (24JUL1936) |
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-34 Atwood, Kansas (22-23DEC1989) |
118 Dresden, Kansas (24JUL1936) |
| -34 Culbertson, Nebraska (22-23DEC1989) | 117 Hill City, Kansas (24JUL1936) |
| -34 Benkelman, Nebraska (22 DEC1989) | 116 Dresden, Kansas (25JUL1940) |
| -33 Benkelman, Nebraska (23DEC1989) | 116 Norton, Kansas (24JUL1936) |
| -33 Brewster, Kansas (22-23DEC1989) | 115 Norton, Kansas (25JUL1940) |
| -33 Wray, Colorado (22-23DEC1989) | 115 Dresden, Kansas (25JUL1936) |
| -33 Yuma, Coloaro (22DEC1989) | 115 Dreden, Kansas (13JUL1934) |
| -32 Wray, Colorado (12FEB1889) | 115 Hill City, Kansas (25JUL1940) |
| -32 Colby, Kansas (22DEC1989) | 115 Hill City, Kansas (06AUG1934) |
| -32 Kit Carson, Colorado (28JAN1948 / 05JAN1942) | 115 Hill City, Kansas (13JUL1934) |
| -32 Oberlin, Kansas (11JAN1918) |
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Top 10 Wettest Days (Inches of Rain)* |
Top 10 Snowiest Days (Inches of Snow) |
| 8.00 Stratton, Colorado (23AUG1969) | 24.0 Norcatur, Kansas (25OCT1997) |
| 7.51 Gove, Kansas (26JUN1996) | 23.0 Palisade, Nebraska (30MAR1949) |
| 7.43 Hill City, Kansas (17SEP1919) | 21.5 Lenora, Kansas (25OCT1997) |
| 6.92 Quinter, Kansas (25JUL1999) | 21.3 Wallace, Kansas (01DEC1919) |
| 6.60 Wray, Colorado (27APR1947) | 20.0 Saint Francis, Kansas (28MAR1980) |
| 6.46 Tribune, Kansas (04JUN1932) | 20.0 Densmore, Kansas (25OCT1997) |
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6.20 Benkelman, Nebrask (17JUL1924) |
20.0 Hoxie, Kansas (28FEB1939) |
| 6.16 Trenton, Nebraska (18JUL1981) | 20.0 Winona, Kansas (25OCT1997) |
| 6.09 Norton, Kansas (20JUL1953) | 19.4 Stratton, Colorado (25OCT1997) |
| 6.00 Benkelman, Nebraska (07SEP1901) | 19.3 Gove, Kansas (11APR1953) |
| 19.3 Goodland, Kansas (25OCT1997) |
*These rainfall measurements are from official observing stations only. There are several unofficial reports of rain in excess of eight inches in eastern Colorado on May 30, 1935, which helped produce the Republican River flood. These data are included here:
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Unofficial Rainfall Records from May 30, 1935 (Inches) |
| 24.00 5 miles southwest of Bonny Reservoir, Colorado |
| 18.00 6 miles south southeast of Idalia, Colorado |
| 15.00 5 miles north northeast of Seibert, Colorado |
| 12.88 5 miles south southeast of Idalia, Colorado |
| 12.00 10 miles east northeast of Idalia, Colorado |
| 10.00 3 miles southeast of Idalia, Colorado |
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