Weather Records on 16 August 1959

354 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 August 1959. Highest significance: Hatch, US.

Key Facts for 16 August 1959

On 16 August 1959, 354 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
115 were record highs and 47 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 4 monthly and 348 daily.
Hatch set a daily record precipitation of 44.7 mm (1.8 in) on 16 August 1959.
Across 164 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 467 records.

Record Map

354 stations

354 station records on 16 August 1959 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 August 1959: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Hatch	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Kirchdorf/Poel	Germany	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Reenen	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Madison	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.1 mm (4.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Buchan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Chatsu	India	Record daily precipitation	158.2 mm (6.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Temple	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Niwai	India	Record daily precipitation	121.9 mm (4.8 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Brandenburg-Gorden	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Moran	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Chanute Martin Johnson AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.9 mm (2.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lichtentanne	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	14.8 C (58.6 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Charlotte	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Barrage A Lac Kempt	Canada	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Cottbus	Germany	Record daily precipitation	46.8 mm (1.8 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Hafslo	Norway	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Mirannie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Rio Do Braco (Efic)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Port Stanley	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lubeck-Werft	Germany	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Yadki	India	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Jaipur Obsy Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	188.4 mm (7.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Safford	United States	Record low maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Durham	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Marnitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	83.7 mm (3.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Tulbagh (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Myklebust I Breim	Norway	Record daily precipitation	30.1 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Frankfort Disposal	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kishangarh	India	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Palladam	India	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Pesaro	Italy	Record daily precipitation	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Umea	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	25.8 C (78.4 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
El Dorado	United States	Record daily precipitation	108.2 mm (4.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Le Roy	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.3 mm (3.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Lucan	Canada	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Tambe (Itambe)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	34.2 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Schwerin	Germany	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Howard 2SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Butchers Ridge Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Murrungowar	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Stratford	Canada	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Jakutsk	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.4 C (65.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Abilene	United States	Record low maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ottawa	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Welland	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Kenogami	Canada	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Bad Axe	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Yerevan	Armenia	Record high minimum temperature	21.9 C (71.4 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Rocky Hall Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Fatehpur Sikri	India	Record daily precipitation	103.6 mm (4.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Tarpon Spgs Sewage Plt	United States	Record low minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Mt Pulaski	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Augusta	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Ada	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Bikaner	India	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Gyzylarbat	Turkmenistan	Record high minimum temperature	27.9 C (82.2 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Quitman 2 NW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Rockville	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Burlington	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Fall Rvr Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

354 records

Records set or tied on 16 August 1959 by type: Highest daily maximum 49, Lowest daily maximum 26, Highest daily minimum 66, Lowest daily minimum 21, Heaviest daily rainfall 192.

Records on 16 August 1959 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	49
Lowest daily maximum	26
Highest daily minimum	66
Lowest daily minimum	21
Heaviest daily rainfall	192
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 16 August 1959 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 4, daily 348.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

289 broken records

Margins by which the 289 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 91.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 August 1959

Top 20 records on 16 August 1959 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 August 1959	Hatch, US	daily rain	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	50 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Kirchdorf/Poel, DE	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	15.8 mm (0.6 in)	68 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Reenen, ZA	daily rain	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	22.2 mm (0.9 in)	44 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Madison, US	daily rain	101.1 mm (4.0 in)	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	10 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Buchan, AU	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	58 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Chatsu, IN	daily rain	158.2 mm (6.2 in)	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	32 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Temple, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	30.4 mm (1.2 in)	61 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Niwai, IN	daily rain	121.9 mm (4.8 in)	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	5 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Brandenburg-Gorden, DE	daily rain	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	0 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Moran, US	daily rain	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	20 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Chanute Martin Johnson AP, US	daily rain	70.9 mm (2.8 in)	37.9 mm (1.5 in)	42 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Lichtentanne, DE	daily low max	14.8 C (58.6 F)	1.3 C (2.3 F)	89 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Charlotte, US	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	50 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Barrage A Lac Kempt, CA	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	22.8 mm (0.9 in)	14 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Cottbus, DE	daily rain	46.8 mm (1.8 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	29 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Hafslo, NO	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	8.0 mm (0.31 in)	61 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Mirannie, AU	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	8 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Rio Do Braco (Efic), BR	daily rain	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	36 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Port Stanley, CA	daily high min	22.2 C (72.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	70 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
16 August 1959	Lubeck-Werft, DE	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	12.6 mm (0.5 in)	28 years	35 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 1959

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1959. 1959 had 354 records.

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

Records on 08-16 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1802	2
1811	1
1827	1
1833	1
1835	1
1838	1
1841	1
1844	2
1850	1
1856	1
1861	2
1862	1
1863	1
1868	2
1869	1
1871	1
1873	1
1875	2
1876	5
1878	1
1879	3
1880	2
1882	2
1883	2
1885	4
1886	1
1887	2
1888	5
1890	5
1891	2
1893	6
1894	1
1895	4
1896	5
1897	4
1898	6
1899	2
1900	3
1901	7
1902	5
1903	12
1904	9
1905	9
1906	11
1907	20
1908	31
1909	25
1910	14
1911	16
1912	30
1913	88
1914	10
1915	32
1916	147
1917	27
1918	72
1919	13
1920	144
1921	42
1922	148
1923	135
1924	139
1925	92
1926	165
1927	314
1928	207
1929	509
1930	158
1931	336
1932	348
1933	260
1934	504
1935	496
1936	728
1937	818
1938	700
1939	340
1940	287
1941	371
1942	447
1943	579
1944	467
1945	370
1946	313
1947	477
1948	342
1949	345
1950	305
1951	423
1952	552
1953	558
1954	648
1955	558
1956	413
1957	402
1958	1,013
1959	354
1960	518
1961	866
1962	423
1963	897
1964	831
1965	565
1966	433
1967	829
1968	824
1969	684
1970	386
1971	641
1972	997
1973	592
1974	689
1975	766
1976	1,153
1977	831
1978	835
1979	1,698
1980	855
1981	766
1982	516
1983	1,251
1984	662
1985	1,063
1986	811
1987	1,120
1988	1,594
1989	730
1990	702
1991	601
1992	2,027
1993	820
1994	1,075
1995	1,542
1996	678
1997	1,284
1998	865
1999	697
2000	873
2001	1,136
2002	1,258
2003	1,220
2004	1,239
2005	813
2006	894
2007	1,442
2008	1,183
2009	1,128
2010	1,239
2011	896
2012	670
2013	770
2014	640
2015	841
2016	786
2017	672
2018	412
2019	430
2020	1,382
2021	825
2022	1,145
2023	1,354
2024	765
2025	661
2026	661

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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	260
20 to 40	23
40 to 60	4
60 to 80	0
80 to 100	2