Weather Records on 18 February 1957

322 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 18 February 1957. Highest significance: Edjudina, AU.

Key Facts for 18 February 1957

On 18 February 1957, 322 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
128 were record highs and 14 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 319 daily.
Edjudina set a daily record precipitation of 45.7 mm (1.8 in) on 18 February 1957.
Across 164 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 502 records.

Record Map

322 stations

322 station records on 18 February 1957 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 18 February 1957: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Edjudina	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Bilpin (Fern Grove)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	159.8 mm (6.3 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	Record low maximum temperature	25.2 C (77.4 F)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Peak Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.3 mm (2.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Mercedes 6 SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Darkes Forest (Kintyre)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Kookynie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Genoa	Italy	Record daily precipitation	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Goorangoola	Australia	Record daily precipitation	102.4 mm (4.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Daveyhurst Mulwarrie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
San Benito	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Sao Rafael	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	58.0 mm (2.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Milan	Italy	Record daily precipitation	37.5 mm (1.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
McCulloch	Canada	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Philadelphia	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Menzies	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Karonie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Innsbruck	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	3.8 C (38.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Fraser Range	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Youanmi Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Tarnaby	Sweden	Record snow depth	162.0 cm (63.8 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
McKenzie Rvr Rs	United States	Record high maximum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Flagstaff AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	1.1 C (34.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Willow Tree (Jacks Creek No3)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Comboyne Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	126.5 mm (5.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Goulds Rch	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Menangina	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Ora Banda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Nuwara Eliya	Sri Lanka	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Florence	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Farmerville	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Harlingen	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Sandstone	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bell Ranch	United States	Record high minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Falfurrias	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Ubaira (Areia)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	55.3 mm (2.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Globe Rs	United States	Record high minimum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Litchfield Park	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Safford	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Lemon Cove	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Appleton City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	5.6 C (42.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Warsaw 1	United States	Record high minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Bayard 4W	United States	Record high maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Escalante	United States	Record high minimum temperature	1.7 C (35.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Kailua 446	United States	Record low minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Austin Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Barstow	United States	Record high minimum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Claremont Pomona Clg	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Yates Ctr	United States	Record high minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Louisiana Starks Nurse	United States	Record high minimum temperature	3.3 C (37.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Shenkursk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	7.0 mm (0.28 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Carrizozo 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Palma 2 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Los Lunas	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tot-Ma	Russia	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Winslow AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Urjupinsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Engle	United States	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hillsboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kamennaja-Step	Russia	Record daily precipitation	6.8 mm (0.27 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

322 records

Records set or tied on 18 February 1957 by type: Highest daily maximum 26, Lowest daily maximum 5, Highest daily minimum 102, Lowest daily minimum 9, Heaviest daily rainfall 163, Heaviest daily snowfall 16, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 18 February 1957 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	26
Lowest daily maximum	5
Highest daily minimum	102
Lowest daily minimum	9
Heaviest daily rainfall	163
Heaviest daily snowfall	16
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 18 February 1957 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 3, daily 319.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

273 broken records

Margins by which the 273 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 240.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

18 February 1957

Top 20 records on 18 February 1957 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
18 February 1957	Edjudina, AU	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	56 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Bilpin (Fern Grove), AU	daily rain	159.8 mm (6.3 in)	132.6 mm (5.2 in)	27 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Hambantota, LK	daily low max	25.2 C (77.4 F)	3.1 C (5.6 F)	70 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Peak Hill, AU	daily rain	66.3 mm (2.6 in)	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	37 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Mercedes 6 SSE, US	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	33 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Darkes Forest (Kintyre), AU	daily rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	96.8 mm (3.8 in)	28 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Kookynie, AU	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	6 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Genoa, IT	daily rain	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	12.0 mm (0.5 in)	89 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Goorangoola, AU	daily rain	102.4 mm (4.0 in)	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	5 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	Daveyhurst Mulwarrie, AU	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	32 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
18 February 1957	San Benito, US	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	33 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Sao Rafael, BR	daily rain	58.0 mm (2.3 in)	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	33 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Milan, IT	daily rain	37.5 mm (1.5 in)	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	19 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	McCulloch, CA	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	8.8 cm (3.5 in)	33 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Philadelphia, ZA	daily rain	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	19.5 mm (0.8 in)	23 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Menzies, AU	daily rain	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	32 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Karonie, AU	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	32 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Innsbruck, AT	daily high min	3.8 C (38.8 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	71 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Fraser Range, AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	32 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
18 February 1957	Youanmi Downs, AU	daily rain	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	8 years	27 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

1794 to 1957

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1957. 1957 had 322 records.

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

Records on 02-18 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1809	1
1813	2
1827	2
1838	1
1846	1
1847	1
1850	1
1851	1
1855	1
1856	1
1857	1
1862	1
1863	1
1866	1
1867	1
1869	1
1873	1
1875	1
1876	3
1877	1
1880	3
1883	1
1884	1
1885	3
1886	1
1887	4
1888	2
1889	3
1890	2
1891	2
1892	6
1893	5
1895	6
1896	7
1897	1
1898	3
1899	2
1900	10
1901	5
1902	3
1903	31
1904	8
1905	11
1906	10
1907	10
1908	10
1909	12
1910	21
1911	42
1912	28
1913	29
1914	15
1915	20
1916	24
1917	44
1918	112
1919	500
1920	39
1921	86
1922	58
1923	97
1924	174
1925	66
1926	231
1927	310
1928	462
1929	483
1930	628
1931	371
1932	200
1933	134
1934	217
1935	137
1936	1,487
1937	284
1938	775
1939	308
1940	407
1941	164
1942	579
1943	436
1944	465
1945	205
1946	793
1947	248
1948	783
1949	543
1950	721
1951	642
1952	510
1953	148
1954	596
1955	795
1956	1,016
1957	322
1958	1,549
1959	695
1960	366
1961	1,418
1962	605
1963	359
1964	249
1965	306
1966	711
1967	537
1968	478
1969	456
1970	454
1971	822
1972	445
1973	690
1974	467
1975	682
1976	1,075
1977	799
1978	1,766
1979	2,300
1980	1,018
1981	2,438
1982	574
1983	620
1984	912
1985	690
1986	1,679
1987	528
1988	585
1989	1,034
1990	1,324
1991	937
1992	488
1993	1,960
1994	889
1995	939
1996	1,031
1997	1,039
1998	1,892
1999	644
2000	1,249
2001	470
2002	832
2003	1,128
2004	968
2005	595
2006	1,872
2007	835
2008	989
2009	664
2010	1,634
2011	1,600
2012	628
2013	388
2014	846
2015	831
2016	794
2017	1,033
2018	611
2019	1,411
2020	1,050
2021	1,711
2022	1,144
2023	984
2024	860
2025	1,063
2026	1,127

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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 50	266
50 to 100	5
100 to 150	1
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	1