Thursday was the warmest March day St. Louis has ever recorded 1%
By Kate Grumke56%
3/27/2026, 1:41:03 PM
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Thursday was the warmest March day St.
Louis has ever recorded, according to the National Weather Service.
The high temperature at the airport was 93 degrees, which broke both that day’s record and the month’s record.
The previous March record stood for nearly 100 years — that was 92 degrees, set on March 24, 1929.
Thursday also set another record.
The St.
Louis Cardinals recorded the highest temperature for the first pitch of a full season, at 91 degrees.
That beat the previous record of 73 degrees, set in 1999.
Monthly records are broken more rarely than daily records and therefore are more significant.
But the St.
Louis area has also broken multiple daily records this month, according to the weather service.
High temperature records fell on March 26, 22, 20 and 10.
A record high minimum temperature also was set on March 11.
Preliminary monthly data, which doesn’t include Thursday, shows this month in St.
Louis has been at least 7 degrees warmer than usual on average.
Human-caused climate change is the main driver of springtime warming trends in St.
Louis, according to a recent analysis by the nonprofit Climate Central.
The organization used attribution science to analyze warming trends in more than 200 cities across the U.S., including St.
Louis.
Climate Central found that, compared with 1970, St.
Louis’ springs have warmed by more than 4 degrees on average.
The organization found that the increased heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere is responsible for about 70% of St.
Louis’ spring warming.
Other spots also recorded their warmest March day on Thursday, including Quincy, Columbia and Rolla.
Rolla has repeatedly broken its March high record in the last week, starting on the 20th and exceeding the record by 1 degree again on March 21, 22 and 26.
Rolla has broken seven daily warm records this month.
STLPR's Jeremy Goodwin contributed to this report.
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