Weather Records on 2 September 1937

905 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 2 September 1937. Highest significance: Stanley Post Office, AU.

Key Facts for 2 September 1937

On 2 September 1937, 905 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
354 were record highs and 35 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 63 monthly and 838 daily.
Stanley Post Office set a monthly record daily precipitation of 73.7 mm (2.9 in) on 2 September 1937.
Across 167 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 434 records.

Record Map

905 stations

905 station records on 2 September 1937 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 2 September 1937: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Stanley Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Tanunda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Deal Island	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Clare (Hill River)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Rosedale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Burra (Kooringa)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Stansbury	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Wynyard State School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	95.0 mm (3.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Mintaro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Fingal (Legge Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Pokegama Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Yacka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Stockwell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Sutherlands	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Leake (Elizabeth River)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Burnie (No 1)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
St Marys (Clive Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Collingrove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Brinkworth (Anama Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Roseworthy	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Mexia	United States	Record daily precipitation	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Burra (Worlds End)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Warroo (Geeron)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Mathinna (Fingal Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Port Clinton (Yararoo)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Angaston	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
St Marys (Cullenswood)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Woodside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Eden (Caravan Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Snowtown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Kapunda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Lyndoch	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Ashton 1	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Birdwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgewater	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Akhuapada	India	Record daily precipitation	104.1 mm (4.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Brinkworth (Bungaree)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Castle Mountain	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Furracabad (Avondale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Cape Grim (Woolnorth)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Koolunga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ardrossan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Stirling	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Michelago (Soglio)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Bryan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Pleasant	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Eudunda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Thule	Australia	Record daily precipitation	108.2 mm (4.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gumeracha	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Auburn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Greenock	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Normanstone Well	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Goulds Country Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Torrens	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Manoora	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Barraba (Mount Lindsay)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Nethercote	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gunning Rural Supplies	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Irishtown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.2 mm (2.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Dutton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

905 records

Records set or tied on 2 September 1937 by type: Highest daily maximum 133, Lowest daily maximum 21, Highest daily minimum 221, Lowest daily minimum 14, Heaviest daily rainfall 516.

Records on 2 September 1937 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	133
Lowest daily maximum	21
Highest daily minimum	221
Lowest daily minimum	14
Heaviest daily rainfall	516
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 2 September 1937 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 63, daily 838.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

720 broken records

Margins by which the 720 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 91.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

2 September 1937

Top 20 records on 2 September 1937 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
2 September 1937	Stanley Post Office, AU	monthly rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	26 years	64 of 100 (Major)
2 September 1937	Tanunda, AU	monthly rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	24 years	63 of 100 (Major)
2 September 1937	Deal Island, AU	monthly rain	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Clare (Hill River), AU	monthly rain	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	28.9 mm (1.1 in)	23 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Rosedale, AU	monthly rain	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	15 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Burra (Kooringa), AU	daily rain	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	28 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Stansbury, AU	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	34 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Wynyard State School, AU	monthly rain	95.0 mm (3.7 in)	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	3 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Mintaro, AU	all-time rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	13.4 mm (0.5 in)	39 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Fingal (Legge Street), AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	28 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Pokegama Dam, US	monthly rain	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	27 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Yacka, AU	daily rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	28 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Stockwell, AU	monthly rain	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	33 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Sutherlands, AU	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	28 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Lake Leake (Elizabeth River), AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	28 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Burnie (No 1), AU	monthly rain	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	26 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	St Marys (Clive Street), AU	daily rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Collingrove, AU	monthly rain	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	4 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Brinkworth (Anama Park), AU	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	26 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
2 September 1937	Roseworthy, AU	daily rain	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	26 years	49 of 100 (Notable)

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

1797 to 1937

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1937. 1937 had 905 records.

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

Records on 09-02 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1800	1
1802	1
1808	1
1838	1
1841	1
1843	1
1850	1
1854	1
1855	1
1857	1
1860	3
1861	1
1864	1
1867	2
1869	2
1870	1
1871	2
1872	1
1875	1
1876	1
1877	3
1878	2
1879	1
1881	1
1883	1
1884	1
1885	4
1886	5
1888	1
1889	2
1890	5
1891	1
1892	5
1893	3
1894	4
1895	3
1896	4
1897	4
1898	8
1899	10
1900	3
1901	4
1902	5
1903	13
1904	6
1905	14
1906	25
1907	11
1908	58
1909	35
1910	13
1911	82
1912	37
1913	37
1914	16
1915	38
1916	26
1917	20
1918	31
1919	17
1920	39
1921	85
1922	46
1923	75
1924	212
1925	147
1926	215
1927	71
1928	203
1929	322
1930	194
1931	305
1932	473
1933	427
1934	537
1935	602
1936	391
1937	905
1938	376
1939	439
1940	224
1941	467
1942	389
1943	336
1944	353
1945	392
1946	635
1947	1,147
1948	431
1949	563
1950	745
1951	515
1952	698
1953	1,153
1954	721
1955	501
1956	440
1957	385
1958	348
1959	534
1960	448
1961	839
1962	318
1963	272
1964	679
1965	440
1966	362
1967	1,213
1968	493
1969	465
1970	553
1971	521
1972	743
1973	1,148
1974	1,294
1975	519
1976	835
1977	589
1978	484
1979	647
1980	697
1981	521
1982	672
1983	1,076
1984	598
1985	714
1986	860
1987	915
1988	1,284
1989	659
1990	675
1991	807
1992	1,117
1993	1,405
1994	1,291
1995	1,143
1996	604
1997	1,547
1998	1,263
1999	912
2000	1,931
2001	981
2002	805
2003	1,310
2004	679
2005	623
2006	1,238
2007	1,086
2008	1,229
2009	706
2010	1,081
2011	1,265
2012	885
2013	717
2014	650
2015	661
2016	621
2017	1,047
2018	473
2019	789
2020	701
2021	742
2022	991
2023	707
2024	923
2025	431
2026	866

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Data for records on 1937-09-02: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.

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 20	664
20 to 40	49
40 to 60	6
60 to 80	0
80 to 100	1