Taking a look back at record high temperatures in Buffalo
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Wednesday reached a record high temperature of 76° for March 19 in Buffalo. The previous record was set in 2012 at 74°.
Overall, March has brought pleasant weather this year. Temperatures have mostly stayed above normal with little to no snow accumulation, despite a tendency for the last month of winter to feel like a frozen tundra.
Here's how many record highs and lows the Queen City has seen in the last twenty years*:
- 2024: 9 record highs
- 2023: 3 record highs
- 2022: 5 record highs
- 2021: 7 record highs
- 2020: 9 record highs, 5 record lows
- 2019: 2 record highs, 3 record lows
- 2018: 7 record highs, 2 record lows
- 2017: 6 record highs, 1 record low
- 2016: 6 record highs
- 2015: 5 record highs, 4 record lows
- 2014: 1 record high, 1 record low
- 2013: 2 record highs
- 2012: 14 record highs, 2 record lows
- 2011: 1 record high
- 2010: 3 record highs
- 2009: none
- 2008: 8 record highs
- 2007: 3 record highs
- 2006: 2 record highs
- 2005: 8 record highs, 1 record low
- 2004: 1 record low
July 9, 2020 reached 98°, the highest recorded temperature in Buffalo history.
March 2012 dominated record high temperatures. Prior to Wednesday, records lasted for nearly a week straight, with temperatures ranging between 73° and 82° over a six-day stretch.
The lowest temperature in the last twenty years, -7°, was hit in both 2015 and 2004. The record low in the city was -18°, hit in 1979.
On average, Buffalo has experienced 4.8 record high temperatures a year. On the flipside, it has only experienced .7 record lows a year, with the city seeing no record low temperatures between 2021 and 2024 and between 2006 and 2011.
* All data according to the National Weather Service
Kayleigh Hunter-Gasperini joined the News 4 team in 2024 as a Digital Video Producer. She is a graduate of Chatham University.