Not sure about every zip code, but this website will give you that information for major cities.
Nice, this is great BlueAggie.
Was just curious if the next 4 days are producing record highs for my area (Freeland), which Saginaw is the closest 'Big City' Looks like today is a record high, and amazingly, Friday it is supposed to be 92, and that is not even CLOSE to the record high (an extreme outlier) of 104 in 1934. Looks like their are quite a few 1934 records. Must have been an absurdly hot year.
I remember my Grandma telling me stories of that summer. She was a teenager during that year and said no other summer was ever close to being as hot as that summer was in 1934.
The heat wave of 1934 added to the already absurd level of misery experienced by that portion of the country within the geographic boundaries of the Dust Bowl.
The record high temp for Detroit of 105 was set in July 1934.
I was still a teenager, but I can vividly recall Friday July 14, 1995. This was concurrent with the Chicago heat wave that killed hundreds.
Tremendous thunder-storms the evening before. On the 14th, it "only" got up to 100 degrees at DTW, but the dewpoints were at extreme levels in the low 80s! 1934 & 1936 were super hot, but not overly humid. As for that day in 1995, combining the heat and humidity, it's arguably Detroit's hottest day ever.
The lowest temperature at DTW the following overnight was 85. 85 degrees at 6 AM! Some afternoon storms moved in that Saturday afternoon, cooling it into the 70s, so the low for 15-July wasn't 85. But if it had been, it would have absolutely obliterated standing records (Detroit's all-time highest low temperature is 80, set 4 separate times over the years).
That's one thing that I still have trouble with, growing up in Detroit where it would always cool off after it rained. Now, in Texas, after it rains it just gets miserable, lol.
Record temps for a given day (or more coarsely) a given month are more relevant. If the temp in last week of May or first week of June is in the neighborhood of a record high (which will typically be from mid-July) then you know it's anomalous. There are ways to estimate the size of a given heat wave in terms of how anomalous it is from a standard temperature distribution at a given date. Of the past few years, the heatwaves in the Pacific Northwest in 2021 and this year a few weeks ago stand out as very anomalous. Similarly, the European heatwaves in 2005 and last year were quite extraordinary.
A great resource that plots any records for a given date is here. Here are the records for today in CONUS. You'll notice that the heat wave is currently over the midwest, but it's not quite record setting for May 30th except for in eastern North Dakota, where there is one record setting temp for today's date.
maybe, have you tried google?
Not willing to show his face I notice.
Lol, would you?
if that fails then i recommend ask jeeves. old man jeeves knows his weather!
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hey that was my go-to at one time
Duckduckgo fuck google
Try the NOAA site.
Yes. Google.
Clarence, that is not where you got your Orange Crop report from, is it?
Whoa Nellie. Too funny
Hope you find what you’re looking for.Thanks Champeen (nm).
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I use Weather Underground or NOAA. Usually tied to weather stations at airports so you should be able to find a local airport for historical data.
I did try that first, as that is my go to. But they seem to only show the record high if you click on the day, not a list of record highs for a zip every day of the year (the first poster did provide that!). Interesting tool.
And for all the snarky fuck nuts with idiot responses and downvotes that continue to make this blog environment shittier by the day, go shove a pay loader up your asses.
Weather Underground also has the distinction of being started at our own University of Michigan. I took a meteorology class (one of my three natural science distribution classes) from Prof. Perry Samson in the 90s, and that was right around when they started it. Fun class.
Mgoblog is the first place you think to ask a question like that?
Maybe you don't want to know how many other places he already asked. You usually find things in the last place you look. (That's why it's the last place you look)
I have to say that this might be as good as any place to "crowdsource."
You've got a mostly educated group of people from all over the country. Diverse and varied backgrounds. Etc.
I have to say that this might be as good as any place to "crowdsource."
This, every time the idiotic remarks "google it" or "why are you asking the blog" shows up in an askmgoblog thread.
"Mgoblog is the first place you think to ask a question like that?"
This is my go-to place for odd questions. I posted a question about hybrid cars a few weeks ago that I found very helpful. It's not like there's M football this weekend,
Michigan people know everything. Just ask us.
I certainly enjoyed the early pandemic housing market thread a few years back.
Housing! What do you see? Market trends? Supply problems? Launch, Run, Jump, bridge is out, start swimming, place your bets. Seemed like a pretty valuable qualitative quantitative assessment at the time and even more so looking back on it.
I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5-megabit fiber-optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my token-ring Ethernet LAN configuration?
Any of these will be compatible if you have a big enough drill. 
Google "(city) climate"
Do you even internet, bro?
Please just learn how to use google.
paging mgoweather...
Lol google? I asked ChatGPT: it’s answer:
Yes, there are several websites that provide historical high temperatures based on zip code input. One popular website is Weather.com. On Weather.com, you can enter a specific zip code and access historical weather data, including high temperatures, for that location. Another website that provides similar information is Weather Underground. These websites typically offer historical temperature data for a range of dates, allowing you to explore past weather patterns. Keep in mind that accessing such specific data may require a subscription or membership on certain platforms.
Both of those gave me the historical high/low if i click on the day. I did not see any place on those sites to get a listing of the high for a zip code for every day of the year.
The fist poster did provide a great utility that did that.
You can also just ask ChatGPT for the record highs instead of how to find them.
Though it can be fussy and you need to change your question sometimes to get a response. It can also be inaccurate.
ChatGPT:
“Based on historical weather data available up until my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, the highest recorded temperature in Freeland, Michigan prior to 2020 was approximately 99°F (37°C). However, please note that this is an approximation and the actual record high temperature may differ. For the most accurate and up-to-date information, I recommend consulting reliable local sources or weather data archives specific to Freeland, Michigan.“
I would try America OnLine with something that sophisticated.
I’ve looked at these at weather.com in the past. They would have monthly calendars showing daily record high and lows
Great site. Scanning through the hottest days I noted Jan 25th, 1967. Everyone was on the diag in shorts. 1988 was the year of the heat.
88 was nasty hot.
I did find that - it gives 1 day.
Sonny Elliot says it will be hot and humid, so a HOMID kind of day.
+1 out of sympathy. Not that I want to see these questions in-season, but on May 30 I don't give a flip.
I write engineering software for a company for which we needed extensive weather data. We got it for every airport in the US and another thousand or so around the world for the past 16 years. It came from a government source at a rather high price. It definitely wasn't information you could collect from Google.
Guys, we are in the throes of OT season. I like this question
Links to access NOAA weather data for sites near either Detroit or Grand Rapids - some sites (like Lansing) have records going back to the 1860s: