Weather Records on 9 January 1916

56 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 9 January 1916. Highest significance: Chaplin, CA.

Key Facts for 9 January 1916

On 9 January 1916, 56 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
8 were record highs and 6 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 2 monthly and 54 daily.
Chaplin set a monthly record daily snowfall of 17.8 cm (7.0 in) on 9 January 1916.
Across 167 earlier years (1799 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 514 records.

Record Map

56 stations

56 station records on 9 January 1916 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 9 January 1916: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Chaplin	Canada	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Berlin-Dahlem	Germany	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chaplin	Canada	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Halmstad	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sheringa (Lake Hamilton)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.1 mm (0.24 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tumby Bay (Warratta Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wagga Wagga (Kooringal)	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nuwara Eliya	Sri Lanka	Record low minimum temperature	0.2 C (32.4 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Darwin Post Office	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	22.1 C (71.8 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Second Valley (Spring Grove)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Forbes (Camp Street)	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Michelago (Soglio)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Cape Jervis Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.0 mm (0.12 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Winnipeg St Johns Coll	Canada	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Winnipeg St Johns Coll	Canada	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Woomera (Oakden Hills)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Medicine Hat A	Canada	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Port Wakefield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Maitland	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Swift Current	Canada	Record daily precipitation	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Swift Current	Canada	Record daily snowfall	9.1 cm (3.6 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Whittata	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Kingscote	Australia	Record daily precipitation	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Wedderburn (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Lichtentanne	Germany	Record daily precipitation	9.0 mm (0.35 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Watervale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Minlaton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.0 mm (0.08 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Port Victoria	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.3 mm (0.09 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Warooka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.0 mm (0.08 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Cape Willoughby	Australia	Record daily precipitation	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Anna Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	4.8 mm (0.19 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Nuriootpa	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Normanville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Cape May 2 NW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-11.1 C (12.0 F)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Vineland	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-15.0 C (5.0 F)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Eudunda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.3 mm (0.13 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Grenfell	Canada	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Grenfell	Canada	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Niznij Novgorod	Russia	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Fe	United States	Record high minimum temperature	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Lincoln UNIV Pwr Plt	United States	Record high minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Port Broughton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Corny Point Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.3 mm (0.09 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Old Noarlunga Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Sedan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Medicine Hat A	Canada	Record daily snowfall	3.8 cm (1.5 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Coulta	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.3 mm (0.13 in)	7 of 100 (Routine)
Truro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	7 of 100 (Routine)
Darwin Post Office	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	28.2 C (82.8 F)	6 of 100 (Routine)
Irkutsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	2.6 mm (0.10 in)	6 of 100 (Routine)
Gunnedah Pool	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	41.7 C (107.1 F)	5 of 100 (Routine)
Bourke Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	45.0 C (113.0 F)	3 of 100 (Routine)
Escanaba	United States	Record high minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	3 of 100 (Routine)
Edithburgh Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	1.5 mm (0.06 in)	2 of 100 (Routine)
Concordia ASOS	United States	Record high minimum temperature	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	2 of 100 (Routine)
Blue Hill Coop	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-6.7 C (19.9 F)	1 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

56 records

Records set or tied on 9 January 1916 by type: Highest daily maximum 2, Lowest daily maximum 2, Highest daily minimum 6, Lowest daily minimum 4, Heaviest daily rainfall 37, Heaviest daily snowfall 5.

Records on 9 January 1916 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	2
Lowest daily maximum	2
Highest daily minimum	6
Lowest daily minimum	4
Heaviest daily rainfall	37
Heaviest daily snowfall	5
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 9 January 1916 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 2, daily 54.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

51 broken records

Margins by which the 51 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 30.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

9 January 1916

Top 20 records on 9 January 1916 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
9 January 1916	Chaplin, CA	monthly snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	2.6 cm (1.0 in)	28 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Berlin-Dahlem, DE	daily rain	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	7.0 mm (0.28 in)	33 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Chaplin, CA	monthly rain	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	2.6 mm (0.10 in)	28 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Halmstad, SE	daily rain	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	45 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Sheringa (Lake Hamilton), AU	daily rain	6.1 mm (0.24 in)	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	22 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Tumby Bay (Warratta Vale), AU	daily rain	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	37 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Wagga Wagga (Kooringal), AU	daily high min	24.4 C (75.9 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	43 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Nuwara Eliya, LK	daily low min	0.2 C (32.4 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	34 years	18 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Darwin Post Office, AU	daily low min	22.1 C (71.8 F)	1.0 C (1.8 F)	27 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Second Valley (Spring Grove), AU	daily rain	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	37 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Forbes (Camp Street), AU	daily high min	27.2 C (81.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	37 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Michelago (Soglio), AU	daily rain	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	8 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Cape Jervis Lighthouse, AU	daily rain	3.0 mm (0.12 in)	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	24 years	15 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Winnipeg St Johns Coll, CA	daily rain	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	3.0 mm (0.12 in)	6 years	15 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Winnipeg St Johns Coll, CA	daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	3.0 cm (1.2 in)	6 years	15 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Woomera (Oakden Hills), AU	daily rain	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	32 years	14 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Medicine Hat A, CA	daily rain	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	12 years	14 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Port Wakefield, AU	daily rain	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	0.8 mm (0.03 in)	29 years	13 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Maitland, AU	daily rain	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	2.2 mm (0.09 in)	24 years	13 of 100 (Routine)
9 January 1916	Swift Current, CA	daily rain	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	26 years	13 of 100 (Routine)

Significance is a score from 0 to 100 combining margin, the age of the old record and the length of the station's record. How it is computed.

The Same Date in Other Years

1799 to 1916

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1799 to 1916. 1916 had 56 records.

Counts for years before the ledger starts come from the same station rules.

Records on 01-09 in each year
Year	Records
1799	2
1806	1
1830	1
1842	1
1849	1
1851	1
1853	2
1855	1
1857	2
1858	2
1861	2
1862	2
1866	1
1867	2
1869	1
1870	3
1871	1
1872	1
1873	3
1874	1
1875	1
1876	4
1877	3
1879	2
1881	3
1882	1
1884	4
1886	2
1887	4
1888	3
1889	1
1890	4
1891	2
1892	1
1893	2
1894	1
1895	10
1896	1
1897	6
1898	3
1899	3
1900	4
1901	4
1902	5
1903	7
1904	11
1905	12
1906	13
1907	10
1908	13
1909	9
1910	14
1911	16
1912	64
1913	8
1914	30
1915	29
1916	56
1917	51
1918	76
1919	36
1920	66
1921	71
1922	92
1923	83
1924	161
1925	84
1926	144
1927	120
1928	387
1929	208
1930	919
1931	66
1932	205
1933	287
1934	446
1935	783
1936	577
1937	1,637
1938	250
1939	1,091
1940	623
1941	431
1942	948
1943	342
1944	442
1945	543
1946	623
1947	178
1948	278
1949	1,035
1950	407
1951	261
1952	310
1953	1,148
1954	298
1955	206
1956	416
1957	1,439
1958	661
1959	355
1960	575
1961	140
1962	1,334
1963	690
1964	857
1965	673
1966	289
1967	409
1968	1,461
1969	569
1970	1,833
1971	659
1972	617
1973	1,380
1974	1,392
1975	1,055
1976	792
1977	1,631
1978	1,494
1979	891
1980	794
1981	635
1982	1,162
1983	759
1984	538
1985	1,541
1986	685
1987	1,243
1988	1,247
1989	1,460
1990	1,335
1991	1,048
1992	1,368
1993	1,524
1994	852
1995	1,099
1996	1,632
1997	1,440
1998	1,735
1999	947
2000	677
2001	829
2002	1,889
2003	1,186
2004	717
2005	1,135
2006	872
2007	1,607
2008	1,335
2009	825
2010	1,941
2011	802
2012	604
2013	641
2014	694
2015	868
2016	616
2017	943
2018	742
2019	323
2020	471
2021	405
2022	356
2023	519
2024	1,533
2025	744
2026	1,609

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Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-17 (17 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 5	43
5 to 10	3
10 to 15	1
15 to 20	1
20 to 25	0
25 to 30	3