Historical Labor Day Weather

Historical Labor Day Weather

	Louisville	Lexington	Bowling Green	Frankfort
Highest Temperature	104° in 1954	102° in 1954	105° in 1925	104° in 1954
Highest Average Temperature	86° in 1954	86.5° in 1954	87.5° in 1925	84.5° in 1925
Lowest Temperature	53° in 1909 and 1956	49° in 1909	50° in 1896 and 2010	46° in 1919 and 1982
Lowest Average Temperature	62.5° in 1909	58° in 1988	59° in 1920	62° in 1909
Wettest	1.36" in 1971	2.08" in 1935	2.12" in 2011	3.32" in 1970

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894.

Rainbow over Shepherdsville, Kentucky September 2005

Rainbows over Shepherdsville, Kentucky in September 2005. Photo: Walter J Kalewski

Note on the data presented here:
At Bowling Green and Frankfort data presented here may differ from data presented elsewhere. That is due primarily to "time shifting," which is when observers give their 24-hour reports at 7am. The high temperature, for example, may be given by the observer as 80 degrees on the 7am report on June 1, meaning that the 80 degree reading actually happened on the calendar day of May 31 (the previous afternoon). Unfortunately that high temperature may have gone into the climatological record as having happened on June 1, since that is the date of the report. Additionally, data may be time shifted for only a portion of a location's history.

An additional problem at Bowling Green is that there have been many observers over the years, occasionally simultaneously, and a difference can arise depending on which observer's data are used.

These issues are not present at Louisville and Lexington.