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Weather extremes
How extreme does Fort Dodge's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Fort Dodge has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Fort Dodge has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 21°F hotter than a normal June afternoon in Fort Dodge (typical high near 80°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 43°F colder than a normal February night in Fort Dodge (typical low near 15°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 93% of a typical August's rain in a single day (Fort Dodge averages roughly 5.5 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Fort Dodge's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — June's 101°F is about 21°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
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 3 years of daily observations at FT Dodge Ozark Airlines, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.