Weather Records on 1 September 1938

373 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 1 September 1938. Highest significance: Oestersund-Froesoen, SE.

Key Facts for 1 September 1938

On 1 September 1938, 373 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
190 were record highs and 46 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 63 monthly and 309 daily.
Oestersund-Froesoen set a monthly record daily precipitation of 53.9 mm (2.1 in) on 1 September 1938.
Across 161 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 441 records.

Record Map

373 stations

373 station records on 1 September 1938 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 1 September 1938: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Oestersund-Froesoen	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	53.9 mm (2.1 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Alamogordo 1	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Muhammadpur	India	Record daily precipitation	110.7 mm (4.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Agricultural College	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Pondilafa	India	Record daily precipitation	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gorakhpur	India	Record daily precipitation	178.8 mm (7.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Dongargarh	India	Record daily precipitation	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Los Lunas	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Jennings	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
El Paso	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Vaexjoe	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	34.1 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Uppsala_Aut	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Pitea	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	15.5 C (59.9 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Chama	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Los Lunas	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Hanover	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Parnu	Estonia	Record high minimum temperature	16.9 C (62.4 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
St. Petersburg	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Frederick Police Brks	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomfield 3 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Susendal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Andenes	Norway	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	15.8 C (60.4 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Timovskoe	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.1 C (64.6 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Socorro	United States	Record low maximum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	19.6 C (67.3 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Spokane Intl AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Agricultural College	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Vasilevici	Belarus	Record high minimum temperature	18.2 C (64.8 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Damoh	India	Record daily precipitation	85.9 mm (3.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Falun	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	15.8 C (60.4 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Umea	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	21.5 C (70.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Tarnaby	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Burnside	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Amarpara	India	Record daily precipitation	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Ai-Petri	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	18.4 C (65.1 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Waxahachie	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Fort Chipewyan	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Haparanda	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	23.0 C (73.4 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Darlington	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	13.0 C (55.4 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Orlando Executive AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Sandvig	Denmark	Record daily precipitation	40.3 mm (1.6 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Tartu	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Munchen-Nymphenburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Gavle	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomfield 3 SE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Springer	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Riverside 7 SSW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
El Paso	United States	Record low maximum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Tartu-Toravere	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Sodankyla AWS	Finland	Record high maximum temperature	23.4 C (74.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Vilnius	Lithuania	Record high minimum temperature	17.4 C (63.3 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Orebro	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	17.1 C (62.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Sveg	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Tribune 1W	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Deming	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cedar Hill 1	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Nelson	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

373 records

Records set or tied on 1 September 1938 by type: Highest daily maximum 100, Lowest daily maximum 35, Highest daily minimum 90, Lowest daily minimum 11, Heaviest daily rainfall 137.

Records on 1 September 1938 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	100
Lowest daily maximum	35
Highest daily minimum	90
Lowest daily minimum	11
Heaviest daily rainfall	137
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 1 September 1938 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 63, daily 309.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

297 broken records

Margins by which the 297 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 94.7. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

1 September 1938

Top 20 records on 1 September 1938 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
1 September 1938	Oestersund-Froesoen, SE	monthly rain	53.9 mm (2.1 in)	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	64 years	62 of 100 (Major)
1 September 1938	Alamogordo 1, US	daily rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	21 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Muhammadpur, IN	daily rain	110.7 mm (4.4 in)	73.1 mm (2.9 in)	28 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Agricultural College, US	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	39 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Pondilafa, IN	monthly rain	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	31 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Gorakhpur, IN	daily rain	178.8 mm (7.0 in)	94.7 mm (3.7 in)	17 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Dongargarh, IN	daily rain	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	8 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Los Lunas, US	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	21.5 mm (0.8 in)	44 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Jennings, US	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	36 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	El Paso, US	daily rain	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	21 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Vaexjoe, SE	monthly rain	34.1 mm (1.3 in)	2.0 mm (0.08 in)	56 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Uppsala_Aut, SE	monthly high min	17.2 C (63.0 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	51 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Pitea, SE	monthly high min	15.5 C (59.9 F)	2.5 C (4.5 F)	53 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Chama, US	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	4 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Monticello, US	daily rain	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	8 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Los Lunas, US	daily low max	17.8 C (64.0 F)	6.6 C (11.9 F)	43 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Hanover, US	daily rain	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	28 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
1 September 1938	Parnu, EE	monthly high min	16.9 C (62.4 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	57 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
1 September 1938	St. Petersburg, RU	monthly high max	28.3 C (82.9 F)	1.2 C (2.2 F)	54 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
1 September 1938	Frederick Police Brks, US	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	28 years	34 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

1797 to 1938

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1938. 1938 had 373 records.

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

Records on 09-01 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1806	1
1819	1
1827	1
1831	1
1838	1
1851	1
1853	1
1854	1
1857	1
1858	1
1859	1
1860	2
1861	1
1865	1
1866	1
1867	2
1869	3
1871	1
1873	1
1876	2
1877	2
1878	3
1879	2
1881	5
1883	1
1886	3
1887	3
1888	2
1890	2
1892	2
1894	3
1897	4
1898	10
1899	3
1900	2
1901	14
1902	5
1903	16
1904	9
1905	6
1906	26
1907	14
1908	26
1909	34
1910	22
1911	16
1912	47
1913	32
1914	23
1915	46
1916	16
1917	24
1918	31
1919	19
1920	31
1921	46
1922	67
1923	75
1924	210
1925	127
1926	182
1927	136
1928	166
1929	324
1930	264
1931	233
1932	550
1933	622
1934	654
1935	584
1936	385
1937	502
1938	373
1939	303
1940	333
1941	497
1942	532
1943	578
1944	377
1945	497
1946	642
1947	555
1948	460
1949	1,102
1950	849
1951	668
1952	644
1953	937
1954	407
1955	413
1956	504
1957	320
1958	427
1959	519
1960	408
1961	531
1962	368
1963	416
1964	621
1965	657
1966	596
1967	1,263
1968	604
1969	493
1970	502
1971	464
1972	518
1973	874
1974	895
1975	939
1976	627
1977	500
1978	809
1979	459
1980	671
1981	649
1982	642
1983	1,167
1984	619
1985	901
1986	964
1987	909
1988	651
1989	823
1990	749
1991	687
1992	1,010
1993	1,122
1994	1,291
1995	1,165
1996	823
1997	1,161
1998	1,159
1999	925
2000	1,613
2001	904
2002	778
2003	1,254
2004	827
2005	901
2006	1,157
2007	976
2008	1,204
2009	1,003
2010	1,313
2011	1,071
2012	874
2013	775
2014	515
2015	661
2016	522
2017	686
2018	399
2019	800
2020	689
2021	751
2022	1,016
2023	720
2024	938
2025	359
2026	521

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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 20	274
20 to 40	15
40 to 60	4
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	1