Galveston/Scholes Intl
Weather station · 29.3°N 94.9°W · 2 m above sea level
ICAO KGLSWMO 72242Records at this site since 1946
Record high
38.3°C
Sun 25 Sep 2005
Record low
16.7°C
Mon 25 Sep 2000
Average high
29.6°C
all years on record
11.3°C short of the record for 25 September
Today’s high 27.0°C against 38.3°C in 2005. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
40.0°C
- Date
- Tuesday, 5 September 2000
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Galveston/Scholes Intl, United States
- Position
- 29.27°N 94.86°W · 2 m
Highest highest in available records since 1946. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily.
All-time record low
−8.3°C
- Date
- Thursday, 11 January 1962
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Galveston/Scholes Intl, United States
- Position
- 29.27°N 94.86°W · 2 m
Highest and lowest lowest in available records since 1946. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily.
Where Galveston/Scholes Intl is
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29.27°N 94.86°W
Galveston/Scholes Intl
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-09-24, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
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Today is already hotter than 54% of all days recorded here since 1946.
From our dataToday's high against every day recorded at this station since 1946. - 2
Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 48.3°C.
From our dataRecord high 40.0°C against record low −8.3°C. - 3
At 05:52 it was 27.0°C. By 05:52 it was 27.0°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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Every year on record
1946 to 2026
Annual average · °C
Trend over 45 years with data: +0.20 °C per decade
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily. Years the station did not cover are left as gaps, never joined across. The dashed line is a least squares trend through the years that have data.
Records by month
Jan
30.6°
−8.3°
Thu 17 Jan 1952
Feb
28.3°
−7.8°
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Mar
31.7°
0.0°
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Apr
35.0°
5.0°
Wed 27 Apr 2011
May
33.9°
10.0°
Fri 13 May 2011
Jun
37.8°
15.6°
Mon 25 Jun 2012
Jul
37.8°
19.4°
Wed 22 Jul 2026
Recent days
Readings on 2 of the 4 days since this site began keeping a daily record.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | 27.0°C | 10:52 UTC | 27.0°C | 10:52 UTC |
| 2026-09-22 | 33.0°C | 20:52 UTC | 32.0°C | 21:52 UTC |
Nearby stations
Data sources for this page
| Figure | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Latest reading, today so far | NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP) | Measured, station |
| All-time, monthly and on-this-day records | NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1946 to 2026 at this site and its predecessors | Measured, station |
| Nearby stations and distances | Computed from station positions in our own database | Calculated |
How these readings are checked
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
2 readings from this station have been refused today, which is when readings began being logged against individual stations.
- The reading is recent enough for its network: 2
- 01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
- 02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
- 03
The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
- 04
The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.