Memorial Day - Often Miserably Hot Or Cold, Sometimes Nice 🇺🇲

Over the past 15 years (2011–2025), Memorial Day Weekend weather in Upstate New York has featured extreme variation, ranging from 93°F heatwaves (2016) to unseasonably cold, rainy washouts with highs under 50°F (2013 and 2021)..

2025: Chilly and damp. Highs only reached 60° to 71°, with lows dipping to 45°. Light rain showers fell each day, totaling about 0.09 inches.
2024: Warm with a rainy finale. Saturday and Sunday stayed dry with comfortable highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Monday brought heavy thunderstorms, dropping 0.56 inches of rain.
2023: Sunny and hot. Ideal holiday weather with clear skies. Temperatures soared from a crisp 44° morning on Saturday up to 90° by Sunday afternoon.
2022: Beautiful and progressively hotter. Mostly clear and dry all weekend. Highs rose from 80° on Saturday to a blazing 88° on Memorial Day.
2021: Historic washout. One of the coldest, wettest weekends on record. Highs failed to break 50° on Saturday and Sunday, accompanied by a relentless 0.82 inches of cold rain.
2020: Warm and dry. Perfect outdoor conditions with zero precipitation. High temperatures consistently hovered between 79° and 85° all three days.
2019: Pleasant and dry. Saturday started cool with a high of 73°, warming up nicely to 86° on Sunday and 81° on Monday.
2018: Briefly hot, then cooled off. Saturday hit a scorching peak of 89°. A cold front moved in on Sunday, dropping highs to 68° with 0.18 inches of rain before recovering to 73° on Monday.
2017: Overcast and cool. Highs sat in the low 70s on Saturday and Sunday. Monday turned dreary and cold, maxing out at just 61° with 0.36 inches of rain.
2016: Record-breaking heatwave. Exceptional summer weather. Saturday hit an intense 93° and Sunday reached 89°. Monday cooled down slightly to 84° as heavy afternoon storms dropped 0.61 inches of rain.
2015: Cold start to hot finish. Saturday morning started at a freezing 38° with a high of 65°. Temperatures rapidly rebounded, hitting 82° on Sunday and a hot 88° on Monday.
2014: Mild and comfortable. A few light scattered sprinkles over the weekend (0.15 inches total). Highs started cool at 69° on Saturday but climbed to 83° by Monday.
2013: Frigid and miserable. . Saturday stayed at an early spring-like 46° with a heavy 0.75 inches of rain. Sunday and Monday mornings bottomed out at a freezing 39°, though Monday cleared up to reach 71°.
2012: Consistently warm. A remarkably stable, dry weekend. High temperatures peaked at exactly 84° to 85° all three days, with minimal overnight cooling.
2011: Hot and clear. Summer season arrived early with dry conditions. Highs reached 85° on Saturday and Sunday, before peaking at a humid 88° on Monday.