2023 Climate Summary For Glasgow

The National Weather Service office in Glasgow has released its climatological report for 2023. Records date back to 1893.

The hottest temperature recorded in Glasgow is 113, set back on July 31, 1900. Last year’s highest temp was 107 degrees.

The coldest temperature recorded in Glasgow is -59, recorded on Feb. 15, 1936. The coldest this past year was -18 degrees.

We received 11.90 inches of moisture in 2023, 1.54 inches below the average. The record is 22.96 inches from 2011.

Glasgow has 83.4 inches of snow in calendar year 2011; this year, we received 46.5 inches, about 6 inches above normal.

January and February were near-normal months, though January was drier than normal. March 2023 finished with 18.3 inches of snow, the third snowiest March on record. It was 14.8 degrees colder than normal, and was even colder than February!

April had large temperature swings, and May was warm and wet, with 3.89 inches of precipitation. It was the 14th wettest May on record.

The next four months were warmer and drier than normal, allowing some drought impacts to return.

October was cooler and snowier than normal. The storm system that brought 14 inches of snow from October 24-26 set a record for the greatest 3-day snowfall total in October, passing the 2008 record of 13.6 inches. It was the snowiest October on record.

With the global El Niño climate pattern in place, November and December were warmer and drier than normal; December was the warmest on record.

There were 17 daily temperature records broken in 2023; 15 were warm ones and two were cold temperature records.