List of all-time highest Minnesota January Temperatures
After last week's episode of record-setting warm weather, several MPR listeners have asked about all-time high temperatures in January. Since 1871, daytime highs of 60 degrees F or higher have only been measured in the state in 9 years: 1900, 1931, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1981, 2002, 2003, and 2012. All of these years were also marked by an absence of snow cover in January.
A list of the all-time highest temperature measurements in January:
Jan 26, 1944 63 F at Winnebago
Jan 28, 1946 63 F at Chaska
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Jan 24-25, 1981 69 F at Montevideo
68 F at Canby and Redwood Falls
67 F at Madison, Marshall, Springfield
66 F at Lamberton and Milan
65 F at Luverne, Tracy, New Ulm, and Windom
64 F at St James, Lake Wilson, Fairmont, and Pipeston
63 F at Worthington, Tyler, Olivia, Benson, Browns Valley
Jan 5, 2012 64 F at Minneota
63 F at Marshall and Canby
Note that this year is by far the earliest in the month for such temperatures to occur.