Weather Records on 19 September 1959

774 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 19 September 1959. Highest significance: Mariposa, US.

Key Facts for 19 September 1959

On 19 September 1959, 774 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
46 were record highs and 230 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 24 monthly and 748 daily.
Mariposa set a monthly record daily precipitation of 133.1 mm (5.2 in) on 19 September 1959.
Across 166 earlier years (1805 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 412 records.

Record Map

774 stations

774 station records on 19 September 1959 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 19 September 1959: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Mariposa	United States	Record daily precipitation	133.1 mm (5.2 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
Turlock #2	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
N Fk Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	126.7 mm (5.0 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Stockton Fire STN 4	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Watsonville Wtr Wks	United States	Record daily precipitation	149.9 mm (5.9 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Cape Bruny Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Sonora	United States	Record daily precipitation	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Auberry 2 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Redding Fire STN 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.3 mm (3.2 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Hetch Hetchy	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Priest Valley	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Enterprise	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.9 mm (3.4 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Green Mountains	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Tahoe City	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Shikarpur	India	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Searsville Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.1 mm (3.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Iowa Hill	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Falls City 2 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Rokeby (the Mall)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Vishakhapatnam	India	Record daily precipitation	126.6 mm (5.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Korsakov	Russia	Record daily precipitation	40.5 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Nevada City	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.9 mm (2.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Sassafras Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	99.6 mm (3.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Channagiri	India	Record daily precipitation	109.2 mm (4.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Downieville	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Dudleys	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Madera	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Wrights	United States	Record daily precipitation	154.7 mm (6.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Myrniong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Southport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Elliott	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Sierraville Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Violet Town	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Girona (Antic Institut)	Spain	Record daily precipitation	76.3 mm (3.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kentfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Summit	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Huntington Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.6 mm (3.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Rocklin	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Abilene	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Piedra	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Willsons River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Beaconsfield 2	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Oakdale Woodward Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
American River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Smith Bay (Smiths Bay)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Barpukhuri	India	Record daily precipitation	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hassan Obsy	India	Record daily precipitation	104.0 mm (4.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Sovetskaja Gavan	Russia	Record daily precipitation	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Poronajsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	127.2 mm (5.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Mooroopna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Caulfield (Racecourse)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Turaiyur	India	Record daily precipitation	91.0 mm (3.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Friant Government Camp	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Somwarpet	India	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mc Farland	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Timber	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Port Lincoln	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Yan Yean	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Melton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Big Creek Ph 1	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

774 records

Records set or tied on 19 September 1959 by type: Highest daily maximum 9, Lowest daily maximum 70, Highest daily minimum 37, Lowest daily minimum 160, Heaviest daily rainfall 497, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 19 September 1959 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	9
Lowest daily maximum	70
Highest daily minimum	37
Lowest daily minimum	160
Heaviest daily rainfall	497
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 19 September 1959 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 24, daily 748.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

670 broken records

Margins by which the 670 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 143.5. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

19 September 1959

Top 20 records on 19 September 1959 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
19 September 1959	Mariposa, US	monthly rain	133.1 mm (5.2 in)	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	64 years	75 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Turlock #2, US	monthly rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	64 years	75 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	N Fk Rs, US	monthly rain	126.7 mm (5.0 in)	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	54 years	71 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Stockton Fire STN 4, US	monthly rain	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	47 years	69 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Watsonville Wtr Wks, US	all-time rain	149.9 mm (5.9 in)	46.3 mm (1.8 in)	37 years	68 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Cape Bruny Lighthouse, AU	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	60 years	66 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Sonora, US	monthly rain	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	35 years	65 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Auberry 2 NW, US	monthly rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	35 years	64 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Redding Fire STN 2, US	daily rain	82.3 mm (3.2 in)	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	62 years	64 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Hetch Hetchy, US	monthly rain	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	28 years	63 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Priest Valley, US	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	54 years	61 of 100 (Major)
19 September 1959	Enterprise, US	daily rain	85.9 mm (3.4 in)	67.4 mm (2.7 in)	48 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Green Mountains, AU	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	42 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Tahoe City, US	daily rain	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	33 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Shikarpur, IN	daily rain	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	74.1 mm (2.9 in)	28 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Searsville Lake, US	monthly rain	87.1 mm (3.4 in)	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	0 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Iowa Hill, US	daily rain	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	62 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Falls City 2 SSW, US	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	56 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Rokeby (the Mall), AU	daily rain	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	48 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
19 September 1959	Vishakhapatnam, IN	daily rain	126.6 mm (5.0 in)	92.6 mm (3.6 in)	10 years	48 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

1805 to 1959

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1805 to 1959. 1959 had 774 records.

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

Records on 09-19 in each year
Year	Records
1805	1
1818	1
1820	1
1825	1
1830	1
1833	1
1834	1
1837	1
1847	1
1848	1
1849	3
1851	2
1854	1
1855	1
1856	1
1859	1
1862	1
1865	2
1866	1
1869	1
1872	1
1874	1
1875	3
1877	2
1881	2
1882	4
1884	2
1885	1
1886	3
1887	2
1888	1
1889	7
1890	1
1893	3
1894	2
1895	5
1896	2
1897	4
1898	2
1899	2
1900	2
1901	17
1902	6
1903	16
1904	9
1905	18
1906	33
1907	9
1908	5
1909	16
1910	16
1911	4
1912	39
1913	200
1914	48
1915	174
1916	38
1917	134
1918	62
1919	52
1920	53
1921	109
1922	81
1923	83
1924	90
1925	356
1926	171
1927	152
1928	211
1929	435
1930	154
1931	400
1932	292
1933	343
1934	171
1935	240
1936	152
1937	331
1938	519
1939	292
1940	459
1941	430
1942	830
1943	540
1944	406
1945	417
1946	802
1947	694
1948	457
1949	303
1950	474
1951	240
1952	545
1953	467
1954	557
1955	578
1956	661
1957	638
1958	354
1959	774
1960	344
1961	445
1962	387
1963	403
1964	350
1965	1,080
1966	529
1967	417
1968	433
1969	493
1970	437
1971	1,127
1972	629
1973	438
1974	637
1975	570
1976	390
1977	719
1978	1,139
1979	727
1980	591
1981	1,462
1982	594
1983	1,630
1984	970
1985	926
1986	737
1987	1,113
1988	973
1989	911
1990	874
1991	2,027
1992	752
1993	885
1994	736
1995	1,096
1996	1,069
1997	1,107
1998	1,039
1999	611
2000	947
2001	1,188
2002	866
2003	1,094
2004	964
2005	814
2006	851
2007	633
2008	647
2009	700
2010	1,414
2011	848
2012	775
2013	578
2014	715
2015	520
2016	999
2017	703
2018	871
2019	584
2020	668
2021	511
2022	666
2023	622
2024	707
2025	554
2026	711

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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	593
20 to 40	53
40 to 60	12
60 to 80	8
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	0
140 to 160	1