Weather Records on 16 September 1954

554 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 September 1954. Highest significance: Girwan Naraini, IN.

Key Facts for 16 September 1954

On 16 September 1954, 554 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
161 were record highs and 153 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 6 monthly and 547 daily.
Girwan Naraini set a daily record precipitation of 171.7 mm (6.8 in) on 16 September 1954.
Across 168 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 413 records.

Record Map

554 stations

554 station records on 16 September 1954 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 September 1954: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Girwan Naraini	India	Record daily precipitation	171.7 mm (6.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Malvan	India	Record daily precipitation	96.8 mm (3.8 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Bay Saint Louis	United States	Record daily precipitation	147.3 mm (5.8 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Rehli	India	Record daily precipitation	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Granville	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Minot Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Reserve	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Mahoba	India	Record daily precipitation	94.7 mm (3.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Biloxi	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Goldbutte 7 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Langdon Exp Farm	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Dimapur	India	Record daily precipitation	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Jhansi	India	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
San Diego de la Union	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Bijanagar	India	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Teonthar	India	Record daily precipitation	125.7 mm (4.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Paradis 7 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	154.9 mm (6.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Parshall	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Soyland I Gjesdal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Cape Moreton Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Ajaigarh	India	Record daily precipitation	151.1 mm (5.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Eckman 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Assiniboine	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Little Falls City Rsch	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Chatarpur	India	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Mau	India	Record daily precipitation	78.0 mm (3.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Manikpur	India	Record daily precipitation	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Morden	Canada	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kingston Queens U	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Peterborough	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bhandar	India	Record daily precipitation	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Sambalpur	India	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Seodha(Seondha)	India	Record daily precipitation	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sihora Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Rampur	India	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Barwasagar	India	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sviland	Norway	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Fairhope 2 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Changenachery	India	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Jaso	India	Record daily precipitation	90.7 mm (3.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Haraiya	India	Record daily precipitation	117.1 mm (4.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Portal	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Gohad	India	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Jabalpur	India	Record daily precipitation	104.6 mm (4.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Pearlington	United States	Record daily precipitation	213.9 mm (8.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Towner 2 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
New Orleans Audubon	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.9 mm (3.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Datia	India	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Sirathu	India	Record daily precipitation	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Banda	India	Record daily precipitation	99.6 mm (3.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Maudeha	India	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Newton	United States	Record low maximum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Janjgir	India	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Raigarh	India	Record daily precipitation	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nagode	India	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Rath	India	Record daily precipitation	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
San Jacinto	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Bareli	India	Record daily precipitation	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Suldalsvatn	Norway	Record daily precipitation	72.2 mm (2.8 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Medicine Lake 3 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

554 records

Records set or tied on 16 September 1954 by type: Highest daily maximum 118, Lowest daily maximum 118, Highest daily minimum 43, Lowest daily minimum 35, Heaviest daily rainfall 239, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 16 September 1954 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	118
Lowest daily maximum	118
Highest daily minimum	43
Lowest daily minimum	35
Heaviest daily rainfall	239
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 16 September 1954 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 6, daily 547.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

419 broken records

Margins by which the 419 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 141.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 September 1954

Top 20 records on 16 September 1954 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 September 1954	Girwan Naraini, IN	daily rain	171.7 mm (6.8 in)	141.2 mm (5.6 in)	44 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Malvan, IN	daily rain	96.8 mm (3.8 in)	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	52 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Bay Saint Louis, US	daily rain	147.3 mm (5.8 in)	110.5 mm (4.4 in)	33 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Rehli, IN	daily rain	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	77.9 mm (3.1 in)	40 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Granville, US	monthly rain	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	33 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Minot Exp STN, US	daily rain	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	32 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Reserve, US	daily rain	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	52 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Mahoba, IN	daily rain	94.7 mm (3.7 in)	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	44 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Biloxi, US	daily rain	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	47 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Goldbutte 7 N, US	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	31.4 mm (1.2 in)	12 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Langdon Exp Farm, US	daily rain	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	20 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Dimapur, IN	daily rain	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	36 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Jhansi, IN	daily rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	44 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	San Diego de la Union, MX	daily high min	20.0 C (68.0 F)	5.6 C (10.1 F)	51 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Bijanagar, IN	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	44 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Teonthar, IN	daily rain	125.7 mm (4.9 in)	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	44 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Paradis 7 S, US	daily rain	154.9 mm (6.1 in)	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	12 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Parshall, US	monthly rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	0 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Soyland I Gjesdal, NO	daily rain	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	47 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1954	Cape Moreton Lighthouse, AU	daily rain	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	14.4 mm (0.6 in)	65 years	37 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 1954

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1954. 1954 had 554 records.

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

Records on 09-16 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1796	1
1807	1
1809	1
1823	2
1828	1
1829	1
1833	1
1837	1
1845	1
1847	1
1848	2
1850	1
1852	1
1854	2
1857	1
1861	1
1865	1
1866	1
1867	1
1869	1
1873	1
1874	3
1875	2
1877	4
1879	1
1882	1
1884	2
1885	5
1886	1
1887	2
1888	1
1889	9
1890	1
1892	2
1893	2
1894	1
1895	2
1896	3
1897	2
1898	6
1899	4
1900	5
1901	7
1902	3
1903	18
1904	5
1905	9
1906	12
1907	14
1908	15
1909	18
1910	26
1911	18
1912	58
1913	43
1914	35
1915	50
1916	60
1917	180
1918	125
1919	26
1920	164
1921	62
1922	147
1923	151
1924	77
1925	212
1926	116
1927	382
1928	62
1929	121
1930	235
1931	568
1932	533
1933	321
1934	519
1935	303
1936	442
1937	536
1938	296
1939	666
1940	188
1941	319
1942	504
1943	270
1944	284
1945	390
1946	610
1947	763
1948	541
1949	486
1950	506
1951	290
1952	378
1953	317
1954	554
1955	490
1956	605
1957	500
1958	538
1959	983
1960	235
1961	833
1962	479
1963	491
1964	859
1965	1,159
1966	838
1967	427
1968	496
1969	360
1970	627
1971	617
1972	451
1973	608
1974	385
1975	836
1976	878
1977	577
1978	421
1979	1,025
1980	568
1981	765
1982	863
1983	814
1984	898
1985	539
1986	862
1987	783
1988	786
1989	854
1990	593
1991	1,367
1992	1,073
1993	1,542
1994	1,008
1995	976
1996	1,403
1997	1,028
1998	1,466
1999	879
2000	1,315
2001	819
2002	1,117
2003	627
2004	746
2005	1,112
2006	1,274
2007	895
2008	1,000
2009	754
2010	880
2011	1,265
2012	572
2013	673
2014	490
2015	926
2016	767
2017	583
2018	921
2019	742
2020	674
2021	454
2022	521
2023	568
2024	885
2025	578
2026	920

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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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	360
20 to 40	33
40 to 60	16
60 to 80	6
80 to 100	2
100 to 120	1
120 to 140	0
140 to 160	1