Commentary: The outdoors is currently fridge-adjacent.
Latest reading−1.0°C03:35 local · 20 min agoReports about every 20 minutes · 59 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far1.0°/−1.0°High at 19:35 local · low at 22:35 localRange 2.0°C · from 29 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPAll-time record high37.2°C20 July 2002. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 2000 to 2006All-time record low−27.2°C28 January 2004. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 2000 to 2006
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happened
Jan
16.7°
Sun 27 Jan 2002
−27.2°
Wed 28 Jan 2004
Feb
18.9°
Sun 24 Feb 2002
−26.7°
Fri 2 Feb 2001
Mar
23.9°
Mon 31 Mar 2003
−21.7°
Sun 2 Mar 2003
Apr
31.7°
Tue 16 Apr 2002
−8.3°
Thu 4 Apr 2002
May
35.0°
On this day · Saturday 7 November
Record high
22.2°C
Sun 7 Nov 2004
Record low
−13.3°C
Fri 7 Nov 2003
Average high
15.8°C
all years on record
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Luverne Muni has dropped below freezing on 893 nights since 2000. The desert remembers every one of them.
From our dataNights with a minimum below 0°C since 2000.
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Right now Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is 48.5°C colder than Luverne Muni. Same planet. Same afternoon.
From our dataBoth readings are live and ranked on this site now.
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The coldest night Luverne Muni has ever recorded, −27.2°C, would pass for a warm spell at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is −49.5°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Today’s high 1.0°C against 22.2°C in 2004. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
37.2°C
Date
Saturday, 20 July 2002
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Luverne Muni, United States
Position
43.62°N 96.21°W · 435 m
The highest in available records since 2000. Source: GHCN-Daily, 2000 to 2006.
All-time record low
−27.2°C
Date
Wednesday, 28 January 2004
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Luverne Muni, United States
Position
43.62°N 96.21°W · 435 m
The lowest in available records since 2000. Source: GHCN-Daily, 2000 to 2006.
Recent readings
Each reading as it arrived, newest first, with what our quality checks did with it. A reading we did not count is shown struck through with the reason.
The most recent readings from Luverne Muni, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
Stations near Luverne Muni, nearest first, with each one's high and low for the day against this station's own.
Luverne Muni (KLYV) is a METAR weather station in United States, 435 m above sea level, about 42 km from Sioux Falls.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 3,195 observations across the 46 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from −1.0°C to 19.0°C, a spread of 20.0°C.
It reports about every 20 minutes, and sent 59 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 365th coldest of the 5,130 stations reporting.
It is currently 1.0°C colder than the median of the 5 reporting stations inside 150 km.
What stands out here
Its best placing so far is 327th hottest of the 9,196 stations reporting worldwide.
It has dropped below freezing on 1 of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Fell to −2.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating 2.0°C on Fri 2 Oct 2026.
Reached 32.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 30.0°C on Tue 6 Oct 2026.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
32.0°C
Sat 10 Oct 2026 at 15:55 local
Lowest
−2.0°C
Sat 17 Oct 2026 at 06:15 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Luverne Muni since September 2026, across 47 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Luverne Muni by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
19.0°C
−1.0°C
8.8°C
7
446
October 2026
32.0°C
−2.0°C
12.6°C
31
2,175
September 2026
25.0°C
12.0°C
16.9°C
8 of 9
574
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 32.0°C, lowest −2.0°C, mean 12.8°C. 47 days recorded from 3,195 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 72 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Luverne Muni, most recent first.
This station lies about 4,900 km north of the equator.
Where Luverne Muni is
z6
43.62°N 96.21°W
Luverne Muni
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, 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.
The warmest month on record here is July, when the highest reading has reached 37.2°C (99.0°F) on Saturday, 20 July 2002.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Luverne Muni?
The coldest month on record here is January, when the lowest reading has fallen to −27.2°C (−17.0°F) on Wednesday, 28 January 2004.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Luverne Muni?
37.2°C (99.0°F) on Saturday, 20 July 2002. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 2000. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Luverne Muni?
−27.2°C (−17.0°F) on Wednesday, 28 January 2004. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 2000.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Luverne Muni right now?
−1.0°C (30.2°F), measured at 03:35 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
Where each figure on this page comes from.
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), 2000 to 2006 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days, which hold the record shown above
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Luverne Muni that passed the checks above, as a file. The source networks are public domain and the file carries its own attribution.
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.
No reading from this station has been refused in the last 14 days.
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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.
☀️ How −1.0°C comparesA typical November afternoon in Nuuk.Nuuk, Greenland, typically reaches −1.0°C in November, averaged over every November day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.Colder right now than 192 of the 195 capital cities we can read.It is colder here than in Moscow (0.0°C), Prague (1.0°C) and Vilnius (1.0°C) at this moment. Those are the coldest capitals still warmer than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
Live capital readings, same observations as this page
Over the last 24 hours, temperatures observed at Luverne Muni ranged from −1.0°C to 6.0°C, a spread of 7.0°C, from 59 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Luverne Muni over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
04:15
3.0°C
08:35
2.0°C
08:55
2.0°C
09:15
2.0°C
09:35
3.0°C
09:55
3.0°C
10:15
3.0°C
10:35
4.0°C
10:55
3.0°C
11:15
5.0°C
11:35
4.0°C
11:55
5.0°C
12:15
5.0°C
12:35
5.0°C
12:55
6.0°C
13:15
6.0°C
13:35
6.0°C
13:55
6.0°C
14:15
6.0°C
14:35
6.0°C
14:55
6.0°C
15:15
6.0°C
15:35
6.0°C
15:55
6.0°C
16:15
6.0°C
16:35
5.0°C
16:55
4.0°C
17:15
3.0°C
17:35
3.0°C
17:55
2.0°C
18:15
1.0°C
18:35
1.0°C
18:55
1.0°C
19:15
1.0°C
19:35
1.0°C
19:55
0.0°C
20:15
0.0°C
20:35
0.0°C
20:55
0.0°C
21:15
0.0°C
21:35
0.0°C
21:55
0.0°C
22:15
0.0°C
22:35
−1.0°C
22:55
0.0°C
23:15
0.0°C
23:35
0.0°C
23:55
−1.0°C
00:15
−1.0°C
00:35
−1.0°C
00:55
−1.0°C
01:15
−1.0°C
01:35
−1.0°C
01:55
−1.0°C
02:15
−1.0°C
02:35
−1.0°C
02:55
−1.0°C
03:15
−1.0°C
03:35
−1.0°C
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-Daily
2000 to 2006
Annual average · °C
Trend over 6 years with data: +1.66 °C per decade
Annual average for each year, °C.
Year
Annual average
2000
no data
2001
13.7°C
2002
13.7°C
2003
14.6°C
2004
14.0°C
2005
14.5°C
2006
14.5°C
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.
Sun 28 May 2006
−3.9°
Wed 4 May 2005
Jun
36.7°
Sun 30 Jun 2002
5.6°
Tue 3 Jun 2003
Jul
37.2°
Sat 20 Jul 2002
9.4°
Wed 27 Jul 2005
Aug
36.7°
Tue 1 Aug 2006
3.9°
Sun 22 Aug 2004
Sep
33.3°
Sat 7 Sep 2002
−0.6°
Tue 19 Sep 2006
Oct ·
32.0°
Sat 10 Oct 2026
−9.4°
Sat 27 Oct 2001
Nov
23.9°
Thu 9 Nov 2006
−18.3°
Tue 21 Nov 2000
Dec
13.9°
Fri 31 Dec 2004
−26.1°
Wed 13 Dec 2000
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily and our own observations, whichever is more extreme. The upper figure is the highest held here in that month and the lower one is the lowest, each with the day it happened. The current month is outlined. A month marked with a dot is one this site recorded itself.
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+1.0°C
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low
−1.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
0.0°C
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0.0°C
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0.0°C
0.0°C
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0.0°C
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0.0°C
0.0°C
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0.0°C
0.0°C
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0.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
high
1.0°C
Counted
Times are local time. 25 readings counted.
highest to lowest
Mean
8.8°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 446 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
32.0°C
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Lowest
−2.0°C
Sat 17 Oct 2026
Range
34.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
11.2°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 2,072 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
32.0°C
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Lowest
−2.0°C
Sat 17 Oct 2026
Range
34.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
12.8°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 3,195 readings. From our monthly totals.
Observations stored by HottestAndColdest. A day we were not yet tracking is shown as an empty square, and says nothing about whether the station reported.
Is Luverne Muni the coldest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 975th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 279th of 8,963. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Luverne Muni rank among the coldest places in the United States?
Right now it is 317th coldest of the 2,766 stations we track in the United States.
Anything above 56.8 °C or below -95 °C is refused. The ceiling sits just above the highest reading WMO accepts, so a genuine new world record would be refused here too: a record needs adjudicating, not a live tile on a home page. The floor is deliberately further from its record, because the Antarctic plateau is thinly instrumented and a real extreme there has far less around it to corroborate it.
06
Not a jump too large to be weather
A change of more than 15 °C from this station's previous reading within 60 minutes is treated as a failing sensor. The limit is set from measured data: real weather reaches about 12 °C in an hour at desert sunrise or under a thunderstorm outflow, and the faults found were 20 °C and more.
07
Agrees with the stations around it
A reading more than 12 °C from the median of other stations within 150 km is refused. It needs at least 3 neighbours to run at all, so it protects dense networks and can say nothing about an isolated station, which is why the other checks above have to stand on their own.