Weather Records on 16 September 1966

838 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 September 1966. Highest significance: Sunnybank Bowls Club, AU.

Key Facts for 16 September 1966

On 16 September 1966, 838 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
62 were record highs and 326 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 835 daily.
Sunnybank Bowls Club set a daily record precipitation of 59.4 mm (2.3 in) on 16 September 1966.
Across 168 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 412 records.

Record Map

838 stations

838 station records on 16 September 1966 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 September 1966: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Sunnybank Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Swan Island Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Eberys	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Riverside	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Ormley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
San Saba	United States	Record daily precipitation	100.6 mm (4.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Malmsbury Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Joyces Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgewater (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Kyneton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Inglewood (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Laanecoorie Weir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Huntsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Smeaton Weir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Tullaroop Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Dundee (Rangers Valley)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgewater (Memsie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Lady Barron (Franklin Parade)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tottington	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bendigo Channel	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Tenterfield (Federation Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Chiltern (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Trawalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Makuschino	Russia	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Serpentine (East Loddon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Campbelltown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Maldon (Derby Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Newstead	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ballarat Aerodrome	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Wallangarra Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Clunes	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Texas Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Macedon Forestry	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Barkers Creek Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Barkly	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Tarnagulla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Big Hill Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Woodend (Corinella Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Madisonville	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Landsborough	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Fernihurst	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Springhurst	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Nandigama	India	Record daily precipitation	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hallett	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Beechworth Composite	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Currie Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij	Russia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Namdalseid	Norway	Record daily precipitation	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Maleny Tamarind St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Mooloolah Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Western Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Quirindi Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Coliban Upper	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kilcoy Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bealiba	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Dunolly	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Emmaville Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
City of Melbourne Bay	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Walterboro 1 SW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Yandoit	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

838 records

Records set or tied on 16 September 1966 by type: Highest daily maximum 17, Lowest daily maximum 152, Highest daily minimum 45, Lowest daily minimum 174, Heaviest daily rainfall 450.

Records on 16 September 1966 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	17
Lowest daily maximum	152
Highest daily minimum	45
Lowest daily minimum	174
Heaviest daily rainfall	450
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 16 September 1966 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 3, daily 835.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

697 broken records

Margins by which the 697 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 67.9. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 September 1966

Top 20 records on 16 September 1966 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 September 1966	Sunnybank Bowls Club, AU	daily rain	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	35 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Swan Island Lighthouse, AU	daily rain	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	28 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Eberys, AU	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	32 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Riverside, US	daily rain	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	59.0 mm (2.3 in)	56 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Ormley, AU	daily rain	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	21 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	San Saba, US	daily rain	100.6 mm (4.0 in)	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	51 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Malmsbury Reservoir, AU	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	53 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Joyces Creek, AU	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	53 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Bridgewater (Post Office), AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	53 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Kyneton Post Office, AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	53 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Inglewood (Post Office), AU	daily rain	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	53 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Laanecoorie Weir, AU	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	44 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Huntsville, US	daily rain	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	67.9 mm (2.7 in)	19 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Smeaton Weir, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	44 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Tullaroop Reservoir, AU	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	69 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Dundee (Rangers Valley), AU	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	48 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Bridgewater (Memsie), AU	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	44 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Lady Barron (Franklin Parade), AU	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	51 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Tottington, AU	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	63 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
16 September 1966	Bendigo Channel, AU	daily rain	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	53 years	45 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 1966

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1966. 1966 had 838 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 10	584
10 to 20	82
20 to 30	22
30 to 40	3
40 to 50	2
50 to 60	1
60 to 70	3