Weather Records on 8 April 1926

164 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 April 1926. Highest significance: Stockton 2, US.

Key Facts for 8 April 1926

On 8 April 1926, 164 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
54 were record highs and 36 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 2 monthly and 162 daily.
Stockton 2 set a daily record precipitation of 32.0 mm (1.3 in) on 8 April 1926.
Across 157 earlier years (1798 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 506 records.

Record Map

164 stations

164 station records on 8 April 1926 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 April 1926: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Stockton 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Tampa	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Red Bluff Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Jacobsdal (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
San Bernardino F S 226	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Wauseon Wtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nevada City	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Bathurst	Canada	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Waynesville	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Paris	Canada	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Waverley	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
La Porte	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Troicko-Pecherskoe	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-29.4 C (-20.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Evansville Ft Court STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Port Jervis	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Ukiah	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
New Smyrna Beach	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Sacramento 5 ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Portland Rfc City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
San Diego Wbo	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Barbara	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Buckeye	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Buffalo	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stratford	Canada	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Windsor Riverside	Canada	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bathurst	Canada	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
San Jose	United States	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hollister 1 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Meeker	United States	Record high minimum temperature	5.6 C (42.1 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Qu'appelle	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-18.9 C (-2.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Roros	Norway	Record daily precipitation	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Edmonton	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-10.0 C (14.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Elatma	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-13.4 C (7.9 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Feodosiia	Ukraine	Record low minimum temperature	-1.3 C (29.7 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Natural Brg	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Barbara	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Bartow 1SE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Bowling Green Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Regina Int'l A	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-16.7 C (1.9 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Kokstad	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Skara 1	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Darlington	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Bowling Green Warren Co AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Middle Creek (Leneva)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Turkestan	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	12.5 mm (0.5 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Greensboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Gloversville	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Vickery 2 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Laramie	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Tiaro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Kremsmuenster	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Calgary Int'l A	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-13.3 C (8.1 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Brantford	Canada	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Lubeck-Werft	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	18.5 C (65.3 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Niznij Novgorod	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-13.5 C (7.7 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Zametchino	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-13.4 C (7.9 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Mahackala	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-3.3 C (26.1 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Keene	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Georgetown Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Swift Current	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-11.1 C (12.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

164 records

Records set or tied on 8 April 1926 by type: Highest daily maximum 14, Lowest daily maximum 10, Highest daily minimum 40, Lowest daily minimum 26, Heaviest daily rainfall 73, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 8 April 1926 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	14
Lowest daily maximum	10
Highest daily minimum	40
Lowest daily minimum	26
Heaviest daily rainfall	73
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 8 April 1926 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 2, daily 162.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

134 broken records

Margins by which the 134 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 51.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 April 1926

Top 20 records on 8 April 1926 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 April 1926	Stockton 2, US	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	8 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1926	Tampa, US	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	30 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Red Bluff Muni AP, US	monthly rain	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	3 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Jacobsdal (Pol), ZA	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	35 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	San Bernardino F S 226, US	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	1 year	32 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Wauseon Wtp, US	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	17 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Nevada City, US	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	8 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Bathurst, CA	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	40 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Waynesville, US	daily rain	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	23 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Paris, CA	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	35 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Waverley, ZA	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	30 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	La Porte, US	daily rain	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	29.9 mm (1.2 in)	24 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Troicko-Pecherskoe, RU	monthly low min	-29.4 C (-20.9 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	31 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Evansville Ft Court STN, US	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	28 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Port Jervis, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	9.6 mm (0.38 in)	26 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Ukiah, US	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	5 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	New Smyrna Beach, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	30 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Sacramento 5 ESE, US	daily rain	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	6.8 mm (0.27 in)	38 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	Portland Rfc City, US	daily high min	11.1 C (52.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	41 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
8 April 1926	San Diego Wbo, US	daily rain	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	13.9 mm (0.5 in)	38 years	20 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

1798 to 1926

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 1926. 1926 had 164 records.

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

Records on 04-08 in each year
Year	Records
1798	1
1809	3
1815	1
1830	1
1837	1
1838	1
1843	1
1847	1
1848	1
1854	1
1859	1
1860	1
1864	5
1865	1
1866	1
1871	3
1877	1
1879	1
1881	1
1883	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	3
1889	4
1890	2
1894	3
1895	3
1896	2
1897	2
1898	3
1899	3
1900	7
1901	6
1902	9
1903	9
1904	7
1905	20
1906	4
1907	20
1908	18
1909	16
1910	20
1911	17
1912	84
1913	8
1914	42
1915	69
1916	100
1917	42
1918	43
1919	82
1920	90
1921	440
1922	117
1923	109
1924	194
1925	184
1926	164
1927	160
1928	450
1929	614
1930	261
1931	447
1932	105
1933	158
1934	190
1935	523
1936	662
1937	129
1938	813
1939	707
1940	254
1941	235
1942	359
1943	534
1944	283
1945	669
1946	337
1947	263
1948	569
1949	206
1950	932
1951	244
1952	562
1953	519
1954	322
1955	306
1956	621
1957	397
1958	360
1959	421
1960	366
1961	623
1962	470
1963	566
1964	814
1965	473
1966	315
1967	568
1968	499
1969	765
1970	399
1971	798
1972	1,636
1973	1,104
1974	559
1975	1,410
1976	383
1977	1,469
1978	822
1979	446
1980	755
1981	736
1982	2,690
1983	1,321
1984	1,041
1985	826
1986	901
1987	783
1988	1,224
1989	1,360
1990	907
1991	1,886
1992	534
1993	706
1994	678
1995	812
1996	1,289
1997	2,009
1998	1,101
1999	1,221
2000	817
2001	1,865
2002	761
2003	1,918
2004	676
2005	976
2006	680
2007	2,681
2008	896
2009	1,027
2010	1,128
2011	1,197
2012	407
2013	711
2014	715
2015	825
2016	924
2017	584
2018	1,745
2019	826
2020	916
2021	742
2022	930
2023	585
2024	1,256
2025	484
2026	407

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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 10	113
10 to 20	15
20 to 30	3
30 to 40	2
40 to 50	0
50 to 60	1