Contact Threshold Days by Year (USC00261905)

14 fixed thresholds counted per year at Contact (USC00261905): hot days, frost, tropical nights and heavy rain, with the most days in a year.

Key Facts for Contact Thresholds

Contact: days with 10 mm (0.39 in) or more of precipitation in 39 years, most in 1971 with 14.
Contact: nights with a minimum temperature at or below 0 C (32 F) in 38 years, most in 1991 with 227.
Contact: nights with a minimum temperature at or below -10 C (14 F) in 38 years, most in 1993 with 82.
Contact: nights with a minimum temperature at or below -20 C (-4 F) in 38 years, most in 1989 with 15.
14 fixed thresholds have at least one qualifying day at Contact.

Days at or above 30 C (86 F)

37 years with a qualifying day

Days per year at Contact with a maximum temperature at or above 30 C (86 F), with the decade average as a line. The most was 81 in 1994.

Days at or above 30 C (86 F) per year at Contact
Year	Days	Decade average
1950	57	65.5
1951	65	65.5
1952	75	65.5
1953	71	65.5
1954	61	65.5
1955	66	65.5
1956	60	65.5
1957	68	65.5
1958	70	65.5
1959	62	65.5
1960	62	48.2
1961	62	48.2
1962	39	48.2
1963	52	48.2
1964	51	48.2
1965	20	48.2
1966	39	48.2
1967	58	48.2
1968	47	48.2
1969	52	48.2
1970	56	55.8
1971	46	55.8
1972	47	55.8
1974	72	55.8
1976	36	55.8
1977	74	55.8
1978	47	55.8
1979	68	55.8
1980	55	51
1982	55	51
1984	43	51
1989	51	51
1990	63	61
1991	65	61
1992	57	61
1993	39	61
1994	81	61

For each year, a bar from the first to the last day at Contact meeting 30 C (86 F).

First to last qualifying date each year at Contact
Year	First date	Last date
1950	1950-06-05	1950-10-12
1951	1951-05-23	1951-09-20
1952	1952-06-05	1952-10-02
1953	1953-06-11	1953-09-19
1954	1954-05-15	1954-09-11
1955	1955-06-07	1955-09-13
1956	1956-06-08	1956-09-20
1957	1957-06-03	1957-09-27
1958	1958-05-18	1958-10-15
1959	1959-05-13	1959-09-11
1960	1960-05-10	1960-09-12
1961	1961-06-08	1961-09-06
1962	1962-06-23	1962-09-18
1963	1963-06-28	1963-09-28
1964	1964-06-25	1964-08-25
1965	1965-07-06	1965-08-11
1966	1966-05-26	1966-09-23
1967	1967-05-22	1967-09-04
1968	1968-06-02	1968-09-10
1969	1969-06-04	1969-09-07
1970	1970-05-17	1970-09-01
1971	1971-06-21	1971-10-06
1972	1972-06-22	1972-08-21
1974	1974-05-26	1974-09-17
1976	1976-07-03	1976-09-05
1977	1977-05-31	1977-09-13
1978	1978-06-09	1978-09-01
1979	1979-05-22	1979-10-01
1980	1980-05-21	1980-10-01
1982	1982-06-18	1982-09-09
1984	1984-05-12	1984-09-19
1989	1989-06-15	1989-09-06
1990	1990-06-10	1990-09-17
1991	1991-06-11	1991-09-27
1992	1992-05-07	1992-10-01
1993	1993-06-15	1993-09-24
1994	1994-06-06	1994-09-29

Every Fixed Threshold

Fixed thresholds at Contact
Threshold	Years with a qualifying day	Most days in a year	Year	Latest year days
30 C (86 F): Days	37	81	1994	81
35 C (95 F): Days	33	27	1994	27
90 F (32.2 C): Days	37	59	1994	59
100 F (37.8 C): Days	12	4	1954	2
0 C (32 F): Ice days (max	37	38	1955	11
0 C (32 F): Frost days (min	38	227	1991	192
-10 C (14 F): Days with min	38	82	1993	50
-20 C (-4 F): Days with min	38	15	1989	3
-30 C (-22 F): Days with min	6	4	1990	4
20 C (68 F): Tropical nights (min	3	1	1951	1
10 mm (0.39 in): Days with 10 mm or more rain	39	14	1971	5
25 mm (0.98 in): Days with 25 mm or more rain	10	1	1955	1
10 cm (3.9 in): Days with 10 cm or more snowfall	28	8	1972	1
25 cm (9.8 in): Days with 25 cm or more snowfall	7	3	1971	1

Years with under 90 percent of days observed are left out of the most days column. Threshold history at this station starts in 1950.

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Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Data as of 2026-10-17 (17 October 2026). Threshold counts are computed by this site.

Data as of 2025-12-31. Last revised 31 December 2025 (2025-12-31).

Contact Threshold Days by Year (USC00261905)

Key Facts for Contact Thresholds

Days at or above 30 C (86 F)

Every Fixed Threshold

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