How extreme does Big Spring's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Big Spring has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 19 years of daily weather observations (2006–present), from the Big Srng Mcmhn-Wrkle Arpt station 6 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Big Spring has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

113°F Jun 25, 2011

The three most extreme on record

1 113°F Jun 25, 2011

2 112°F Jun 25, 2023

3 111°F Jul 14, 2020

❄️ Coldest night

-1°F Feb 15, 2021

The three most extreme on record

1 -1°F Feb 15, 2021recent

2 0°F Feb 6, 2020

3 6°F Feb 16, 2021

🌧️ Most rain in one day

4.31 in Jun 27, 2021

The three most extreme on record

1 4.31 in Jun 27, 2021recent

2 3.86 in Sep 10, 2018

3 3.67 in Sep 3, 2024

In plain terms

Across the record, Big Spring has reached as high as 113°F and as low as −1°F. A single day has delivered over 4 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 8 years of daily observations at Midland Airpark, a weather station, about 63 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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