Weather Records on 6 September 1957

311 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 6 September 1957. Highest significance: Mirranatwa (Bowacka), AU.

Key Facts for 6 September 1957

On 6 September 1957, 311 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
114 were record highs and 98 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 9 monthly and 302 daily.
Mirranatwa (Bowacka) set a daily record precipitation of 34.3 mm (1.4 in) on 6 September 1957.
Across 164 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 452 records.

Record Map

311 stations

311 station records on 6 September 1957 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 6 September 1957: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Mirranatwa (Bowacka)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Atchison	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Barrie	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Peraiyur	India	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Sonamarg &	India	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Elatma	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.2 C (64.8 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bedford	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Britannia Beach Furry Cr	Canada	Record daily precipitation	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Big Creek	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Barkerville	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Viljujsk	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-4.6 C (23.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Malvern	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Port Alberni	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Tunnel Camp	Canada	Record daily precipitation	61.2 mm (2.4 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Hissar	India	Record daily precipitation	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Angamacutiro	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Balmoral (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Zametchino	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.6 C (65.5 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Johnstown	United States	Record low minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Biskra	Algeria	Record low minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Cotija	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Kamennaja-Step	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	17.7 C (63.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Clarinda	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Bozeman Montana State UNIV	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Fremont	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Centralia	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Willapa Harbor	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Adelaide West Terrace	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Quesnel	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Crawfordsville Pwr Plt	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Centralia	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Sedro-Woolley	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
High River	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Pandhera	India	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Kazan	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.2 C (64.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Ludington 4 SE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Greenville 2 NE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Kanab	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Conconully	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Balipara(Addibar) Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	121.7 mm (4.8 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Cumberland	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Whitefish Pt	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Sumner	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Cummins	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yorketown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Smoky Bay	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Lincoln (Westmere)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Smoky Bay (Puntabie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Kenny (Yandra)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Hope (Fairview)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yeelana (Brimpton Lake)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Koppio	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Allansford	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Narjan Mar	Russia	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hawthornden	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yeelana (Brooker)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.6 mm (0.34 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cygnet River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gaspe	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kirov	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	28.1 C (82.6 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

311 records

Records set or tied on 6 September 1957 by type: Highest daily maximum 39, Lowest daily maximum 30, Highest daily minimum 75, Lowest daily minimum 68, Heaviest daily rainfall 99.

Records on 6 September 1957 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	39
Lowest daily maximum	30
Highest daily minimum	75
Lowest daily minimum	68
Heaviest daily rainfall	99
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 6 September 1957 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 9, daily 302.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

234 broken records

Margins by which the 234 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 46.9. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

6 September 1957

Top 20 records on 6 September 1957 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
6 September 1957	Mirranatwa (Bowacka), AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	36 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
6 September 1957	Atchison, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	58 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
6 September 1957	Barrie, CA	daily low min	2.2 C (36.0 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	83 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
6 September 1957	Peraiyur, IN	daily rain	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	46.9 mm (1.8 in)	19 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
6 September 1957	Sonamarg &, IN	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	48 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Bloomfield, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	14 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Elatma, RU	monthly high min	18.2 C (64.8 F)	0.9 C (1.6 F)	48 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Bedford, US	daily rain	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	52 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Britannia Beach Furry Cr, CA	daily rain	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	26 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Big Creek, CA	daily high min	10.0 C (50.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	63 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Barkerville, CA	daily high min	11.1 C (52.0 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	52 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Viljujsk, RU	daily low min	-4.6 C (23.7 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	58 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Malvern, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	47 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Port Alberni, CA	monthly high min	18.3 C (64.9 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	25 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Tunnel Camp, CA	daily rain	61.2 mm (2.4 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	26 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Hissar, IN	daily rain	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	26 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Angamacutiro, MX	daily high max	33.3 C (91.9 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	28 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Balmoral (Post Office), AU	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	8 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Zametchino, RU	monthly high min	18.6 C (65.5 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	25 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
6 September 1957	Johnstown, US	daily low min	3.9 C (39.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	55 years	25 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 311 records.

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

Records on 09-06 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1802	1
1803	1
1812	1
1814	2
1833	1
1834	1
1841	1
1853	1
1854	1
1861	1
1865	2
1866	2
1867	1
1868	1
1869	2
1871	2
1872	2
1873	2
1876	1
1877	1
1880	1
1881	3
1883	2
1884	1
1885	1
1887	2
1888	1
1890	3
1891	1
1892	4
1893	2
1894	4
1895	4
1896	2
1897	4
1898	5
1899	5
1900	5
1901	2
1902	5
1903	5
1904	6
1905	14
1906	8
1907	14
1908	36
1909	13
1910	28
1911	20
1912	55
1913	21
1914	23
1915	14
1916	16
1917	23
1918	62
1919	106
1920	172
1921	67
1922	114
1923	153
1924	335
1925	290
1926	123
1927	137
1928	252
1929	359
1930	101
1931	324
1932	275
1933	368
1934	462
1935	341
1936	338
1937	237
1938	322
1939	447
1940	170
1941	276
1942	284
1943	831
1944	392
1945	537
1946	426
1947	895
1948	379
1949	525
1950	699
1951	263
1952	350
1953	396
1954	567
1955	493
1956	735
1957	311
1958	489
1959	405
1960	382
1961	317
1962	772
1963	419
1964	393
1965	722
1966	296
1967	878
1968	512
1969	737
1970	910
1971	436
1972	567
1973	866
1974	897
1975	426
1976	915
1977	467
1978	1,273
1979	892
1980	458
1981	542
1982	744
1983	1,965
1984	1,354
1985	1,371
1986	751
1987	735
1988	1,547
1989	544
1990	805
1991	757
1992	1,084
1993	856
1994	622
1995	1,220
1996	934
1997	1,389
1998	1,385
1999	1,048
2000	1,500
2001	631
2002	867
2003	718
2004	956
2005	601
2006	1,104
2007	1,246
2008	1,430
2009	735
2010	1,259
2011	1,684
2012	803
2013	886
2014	588
2015	692
2016	605
2017	838
2018	714
2019	797
2020	1,349
2021	407
2022	1,782
2023	905
2024	1,161
2025	894
2026	846

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Data for records on 1957-09-06: 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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 10	207
10 to 20	15
20 to 30	7
30 to 40	3
40 to 50	2