Weather Records on 6 July 1950

541 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 6 July 1950. Highest significance: Putten (Gld), NL.

Key Facts for 6 July 1950

On 6 July 1950, 541 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
83 were record highs and 216 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 13 monthly and 526 daily.
Putten (Gld) set a daily record precipitation of 55.0 mm (2.2 in) on 6 July 1950.
Across 163 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 438 records.

Record Map

541 stations

541 station records on 6 July 1950 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 6 July 1950: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Putten (Gld)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Buffelsnek (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Khair	India	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Mat	India	Record daily precipitation	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Acmetonia Lock 3	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Coraopolis Neville Is	United States	Record daily precipitation	96.5 mm (3.8 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Bloukrans (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Tucumcari 4 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Franklin Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	103.4 mm (4.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
George Airport	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Millwood (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Cambridge Niab	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Goudveld (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Lottering (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	109.5 mm (4.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Niphad	India	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
De Hoop	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Biscuit Flat (Woolmit)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Esperance Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tadoussac	Canada	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Ballabgarh	India	Record daily precipitation	165.1 mm (6.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Portales	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Skukuza	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Saltsburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
De Vlei "de Kruis"	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Spier Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Aberdeen	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Melrose	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Sherman	United States	Record daily precipitation	98.3 mm (3.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Gila Bend 2SE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Tarpon Spgs Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Tucumcari	United States	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Henderson	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Aligarh	India	Record daily precipitation	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
San Bernardino F S 226	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Chillicothe	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Johnstown	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Schenley Lock 5	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Jackson Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Loretto	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Perryville	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Khurja	India	Record daily precipitation	84.6 mm (3.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pondilafa	India	Record daily precipitation	108.7 mm (4.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Woodville (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Fir Glen	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Riva	Italy	Record high maximum temperature	33.0 C (91.4 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Uniondale (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mohawk	United States	Record low maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Okolona	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Tribes Hill	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Carthage	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kumargram	India	Record daily precipitation	233.7 mm (9.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ljubljana Bezigrad	Slovenia	Record high maximum temperature	38.8 C (101.8 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ajo	United States	Record low maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Granite Reef Dam	United States	Record low maximum temperature	30.0 C (86.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Creekside	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Nogales	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Mecca Fire STN	United States	Record low maximum temperature	34.4 C (93.9 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Capitan	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wheeling Warwood Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

541 records

Records set or tied on 6 July 1950 by type: Highest daily maximum 30, Lowest daily maximum 117, Highest daily minimum 53, Lowest daily minimum 99, Heaviest daily rainfall 242.

Records on 6 July 1950 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	30
Lowest daily maximum	117
Highest daily minimum	53
Lowest daily minimum	99
Heaviest daily rainfall	242
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 6 July 1950 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 13, daily 526.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

447 broken records

Margins by which the 447 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 98.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

6 July 1950

Top 20 records on 6 July 1950 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
6 July 1950	Putten (Gld), NL	daily rain	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	66 years	68 of 100 (Major)
6 July 1950	Buffelsnek (Bos), ZA	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	50.1 mm (2.0 in)	41 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Khair, IN	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	78.0 mm (3.1 in)	40 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Mat, IN	daily rain	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	40 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Acmetonia Lock 3, US	daily rain	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	27 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Coraopolis Neville Is, US	monthly rain	96.5 mm (3.8 in)	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	0 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Bloukrans (Bos), ZA	daily rain	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	16 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Tucumcari 4 NE, US	daily rain	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	24 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Franklin Sewage Plt, US	daily rain	103.4 mm (4.1 in)	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	17 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	George Airport, ZA	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	70 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Millwood (Bos), ZA	daily rain	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	55.7 mm (2.2 in)	16 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Cambridge Niab, GB	daily rain	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	23 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Goudveld (Bos), ZA	daily rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	44.4 mm (1.7 in)	11 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Lottering (Bos), ZA	daily rain	109.5 mm (4.3 in)	70.9 mm (2.8 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Niphad, IN	daily rain	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	19 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	De Hoop, ZA	monthly rain	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	21 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Oxford, GB	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	5.7 mm (0.22 in)	119 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Biscuit Flat (Woolmit), AU	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Esperance Post Office, AU	daily rain	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	23.8 mm (0.9 in)	39 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
6 July 1950	Tadoussac, CA	daily rain	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	35 years	46 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

1793 to 1950

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1950. 1950 had 541 records.

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

Records on 07-06 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1795	1
1812	1
1813	1
1819	1
1821	1
1828	3
1839	1
1845	1
1848	1
1856	1
1859	1
1860	1
1863	1
1864	2
1865	1
1868	2
1874	1
1875	3
1876	1
1877	1
1878	3
1879	3
1881	4
1883	1
1885	1
1887	2
1889	1
1890	7
1892	1
1893	2
1894	4
1895	3
1896	3
1897	1
1898	5
1899	5
1900	12
1901	7
1902	6
1903	2
1904	4
1905	8
1906	16
1907	9
1908	22
1909	22
1910	31
1911	45
1912	32
1913	18
1914	50
1915	83
1916	38
1917	26
1918	28
1919	36
1920	36
1921	80
1922	159
1923	177
1924	163
1925	160
1926	133
1927	255
1928	231
1929	106
1930	285
1931	489
1932	470
1933	310
1934	400
1935	222
1936	683
1937	385
1938	269
1939	425
1940	437
1941	337
1942	543
1943	349
1944	320
1945	337
1946	172
1947	506
1948	698
1949	405
1950	541
1951	623
1952	456
1953	656
1954	494
1955	388
1956	722
1957	359
1958	717
1959	285
1960	687
1961	501
1962	434
1963	350
1964	579
1965	442
1966	319
1967	684
1968	739
1969	786
1970	497
1971	412
1972	1,368
1973	1,196
1974	456
1975	743
1976	595
1977	848
1978	1,072
1979	1,092
1980	587
1981	1,016
1982	803
1983	1,002
1984	782
1985	874
1986	870
1987	636
1988	2,036
1989	838
1990	854
1991	888
1992	936
1993	1,419
1994	1,345
1995	779
1996	1,034
1997	792
1998	1,238
1999	1,603
2000	753
2001	1,020
2002	650
2003	723
2004	903
2005	927
2006	1,122
2007	1,303
2008	937
2009	935
2010	1,199
2011	617
2012	1,398
2013	607
2014	494
2015	1,160
2016	778
2017	808
2018	714
2019	523
2020	380
2021	746
2022	890
2023	548
2024	1,185
2025	619
2026	517

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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	384
20 to 40	42
40 to 60	14
60 to 80	5
80 to 100	2