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Fire Weather Concerns and Severe Weather

Dry and breezy conditions will bring elevated to critical fire weather conditions across portions of the northern and central High Plains through this weekend, where fuels remain largely receptive. Severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are possible from the Plains into the Upper Midwest, as well as in the Ohio Valley and portions of the Mid-Atlantic through this weekend. Read More >

10 Warmest Years
1. 65.0 (2016)

2. 64.8 (2024)

3. 64.6 (1921)

4. 64.2 (2017)

5. 64.0 (2019)
    64.0 (2015)

    64.0 (2012)

8. 63.9 (2023)

  9.  63.8 (1933)

   10.  63.7 (1922)

10 Warmest Months
1. 85.7 (Aug 2007)

2. 84.7 (Aug 2010)

3. 84.2 (Jul 2022)

4. 83.9 (Jul 2025)
    83.9 (Jul 1930)

6. 83.7 (Jul 2010)
    83.7 (Jul 1966)

8. 83.5 (Jul 1993)
      83.5 (Sep 1925)

10. 83.4 (Jul 2016)
   83.4(Jul 2015)

10 Hottest Temps
1.  111 (7/29/1930)
2.  110 (7/28/1930)
3.  108 (6/29/1931)
     108 (8/08/1930)
     108 (8/07/1930)
     108 (7/13/1930)
     108 (9/07/1925)
8.  107 (6/28/1931)
     107 (7/12/1930)
     107 (9/09/1925)
     107 (9/06/1925)
     107 (9/05/1925)
10 Coldest Years
1.  58.1 (1976)
2.  58.8 (1979)
3.  58.9 (1958)
4.   59.1 (1983)
     59.1 (1940)
     59.1 (1920)
7.  59.3 (1968)
8.  59.5 (1981)
     59.5 (1978)
10. 59.6 (1947)
                   
10 Coldest Months
1.  26.2 (Jan 1940)
2.  28.7 (Jan 1977)
3.  30.5 (Jan 1978)
4.  31.7 (Jan 1985)
5.  32.0 (Jan 1918)
6.  32.4 (Jan 1948)
7.  32.8 (Feb 1958)
8.  33.2 (Jan 1979)
 9.  33.8 (Dec 1989)
      33.8 (Jan 2014)
                   
10 Coldest Temps
1.  -11 (1/21/1985)
     -11 (1/30/1966)
3.    -9 (1/20/1985)
4.    -8 (2/17/1958)
       -8 (1/13/1918)
6.    -7 (1/28/1940)
       -7 (1/27/1940)
       -7 (1/12/1918)
9.    -5 (1/31/1936)
       -5 (1/04/1919)
10 Wettest Years
1.  73.58 (1989)
2.  72.97 (1975)
3.  72.26 (1990)
4.  70.26 (1991)
5.  70.16 (1923)
6.  69.01 (1911)
7.  67.70 (2009)
8.  67.39 (1983)
9.  67.21 (1973)
10.  67.00 (1929)
10 Wettest Months
1.  18.68 (Dec 1990)
2.  17.00 (Mar 1980)
3.  14.99 (Jun 1989)
4.  14.81 (Jul 1967)
5.  14.77 (Mar 1973)
6.  14.00 (Apr 1911)
7.  13.68 (Mar 1897)
8.  13.63 (Feb 2019)
9.  13.60 (Nov 1948)
10.  13.53 (Dec 1926)
                     
10 Wettest Days
1.  9.07 (12/22/1990)
2.  5.95 (09/13/1929)
3.  5.43 (10/17/1928)
4.  5.34 (12/25/2015)
5.  5.33 (07/26/1910)
6.  5.24 (03/16/1973)
7.  5.09 (03/20/1980)
8.  4.92 (03/28/1951)
9.  4.91 (10/16/1932)
10.  4.86 (10/07/1975)

10 Driest Years
1.  28.65 (2007)
2.  37.18 (1925)
3.  37.45 (1930)
4.  37.90 (1902)
5.  39.52 (1914)
6.  39.65 (2005)
7.  40.40 (1896)
8.  41.62 (1933)
9.  41.81 (1981)
10.  41.84 (1904)

                                
10 Driest Months
1. 0.00 (Oct 1924)
     0.00 (Sep 1916)
     0.00 (Sep 1897)
4. Trace (Oct 1963)
5. 0.01 (Oct 2000)
6. 0.07 (Oct 1938)
7. 0.08 (Aug 1918)
    0.08 (Sep 1899)
9.  0.10 (Oct 2005)
10.  0.16 (Oct 1920)

                  
10 Snowiest Seasons
1.  24.1 (1963-64)
2.  14.3 (2010-11)
3.  14.1 (1935-36)
4.  11.2 (1917-18)
5.  11.1 (1939-40)
6.  10.6 (1987-88)
     10.6 (1959-60)
8.  10.5 (1967-68)
9.  10.0 (1909-10)
10.  9.8 (2014-15)