Weather Records on 30 July 1976

590 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 30 July 1976. Highest significance: Alfred, US.

Key Facts for 30 July 1976

On 30 July 1976, 590 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
110 were record highs and 204 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 8 monthly and 578 daily.
Alfred set a daily record precipitation of 72.1 mm (2.8 in) on 30 July 1976.
Across 168 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 439 records.

Record Map

590 stations

590 station records on 30 July 1976 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 30 July 1976: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Alfred	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Supai	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Middleton	United States	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Brockton	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.3 mm (3.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Sterling	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Arcade	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Aratuba	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	85.2 mm (3.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Zametchino	Russia	Record daily precipitation	31.9 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Traneberg	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Haskinville	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Portageville 1N	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Evergreen	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Harrisburg Disposal Pl	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Araruna	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	56.5 mm (2.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ojo de Agua	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Svobodnyj	Russia	Record daily precipitation	56.7 mm (2.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hanover	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Odesa	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Creston 2 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Woodbury	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Lamoni	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.9 mm (2.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Nashua 2 NNW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Vilnius	Lithuania	Record low minimum temperature	5.4 C (41.7 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Pikeville	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Turners Falls	United States	Record low maximum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Collegeville St John's	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Little Port Walter	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bundaberg Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	17.6 C (63.7 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lindenow	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Trelleborg	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Gallivare_A	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	8.0 C (46.4 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Richmond	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Jokkmokk	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	10.7 C (51.3 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Leitchfield 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Boston	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Nikolsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	41.5 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Wray	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Salvisa Lock 6	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Tartu	Estonia	Record low minimum temperature	5.9 C (42.6 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Palpan	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Oksoey Fyr	Norway	Record daily precipitation	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Uddevalla	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Umea	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	14.5 C (58.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Shelbyville 1 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Charlotte	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Dansville	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Elizabethtown	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Peru	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Gulkana AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Serra Caiada	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Dawson	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Calarasi	Romania	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Lumpkin 2 SE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Chemung	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sickelsjo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Dunmor	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Sussex 1 NW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Cavendish	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ust Tzilma	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.5 C (65.3 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

590 records

Records set or tied on 30 July 1976 by type: Highest daily maximum 51, Lowest daily maximum 114, Highest daily minimum 59, Lowest daily minimum 90, Heaviest daily rainfall 276.

Records on 30 July 1976 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	51
Lowest daily maximum	114
Highest daily minimum	59
Lowest daily minimum	90
Heaviest daily rainfall	276
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 30 July 1976 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 8, daily 578.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

479 broken records

Margins by which the 479 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 72.9. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

30 July 1976

Top 20 records on 30 July 1976 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
30 July 1976	Alfred, US	daily rain	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	55.8 mm (2.2 in)	76 years	70 of 100 (Major)
30 July 1976	Supai, US	monthly rain	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	1 year	57 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Middleton, US	monthly rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	38 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Brockton, US	daily rain	84.3 mm (3.3 in)	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	5 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Mt Sterling, US	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	70 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Arcade, US	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	14 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Aratuba, BR	daily rain	85.2 mm (3.4 in)	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	5 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Zametchino, RU	daily rain	31.9 mm (1.3 in)	18.1 mm (0.7 in)	27 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Traneberg, SE	daily rain	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	5 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Haskinville, US	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	30.8 mm (1.2 in)	37 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Portageville 1N, US	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	5 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Evergreen, US	daily rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	40.7 mm (1.6 in)	50 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Harrisburg Disposal Pl, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	26 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Araruna, BR	daily rain	56.5 mm (2.2 in)	42.5 mm (1.7 in)	9 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Ojo de Agua, MX	daily low min	6.7 C (44.1 F)	10.0 C (18.0 F)	1 year	41 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Svobodnyj, RU	daily rain	56.7 mm (2.2 in)	37.9 mm (1.5 in)	13 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Hanover, US	daily low max	16.1 C (61.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	80 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Odesa, UA	daily rain	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	39 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Creston 2 SW, US	daily rain	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	18 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
30 July 1976	Woodbury, US	daily rain	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	10 years	38 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

1794 to 1976

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1976. 1976 had 590 records.

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

Records on 07-30 in each year
Year	Records
1794	2
1797	1
1827	1
1828	2
1829	1
1830	1
1834	1
1837	2
1838	1
1840	1
1841	1
1843	1
1854	1
1857	1
1858	2
1860	4
1863	1
1867	1
1868	1
1869	2
1870	1
1874	2
1875	1
1876	1
1877	2
1879	1
1880	2
1885	3
1886	5
1887	6
1888	5
1889	1
1890	2
1891	1
1892	1
1893	10
1894	6
1895	2
1896	2
1897	4
1898	8
1899	2
1900	4
1901	11
1902	6
1903	25
1904	17
1905	29
1906	22
1907	11
1908	23
1909	30
1910	8
1911	54
1912	21
1913	34
1914	52
1915	26
1916	150
1917	93
1918	42
1919	19
1920	188
1921	193
1922	40
1923	428
1924	80
1925	275
1926	186
1927	109
1928	210
1929	221
1930	170
1931	432
1932	275
1933	451
1934	619
1935	340
1936	452
1937	245
1938	388
1939	395
1940	562
1941	371
1942	304
1943	397
1944	289
1945	299
1946	409
1947	394
1948	489
1949	512
1950	552
1951	322
1952	581
1953	345
1954	504
1955	787
1956	506
1957	289
1958	344
1959	391
1960	793
1961	511
1962	378
1963	308
1964	483
1965	978
1966	527
1967	282
1968	530
1969	506
1970	431
1971	2,319
1972	758
1973	434
1974	569
1975	1,048
1976	590
1977	641
1978	646
1979	761
1980	962
1981	851
1982	821
1983	904
1984	997
1985	1,029
1986	952
1987	1,084
1988	826
1989	1,227
1990	795
1991	734
1992	1,003
1993	965
1994	1,631
1995	1,207
1996	1,317
1997	933
1998	1,240
1999	1,456
2000	1,030
2001	1,400
2002	1,346
2003	1,163
2004	936
2005	788
2006	1,103
2007	1,160
2008	763
2009	1,328
2010	1,331
2011	1,003
2012	731
2013	737
2014	1,199
2015	682
2016	460
2017	464
2018	1,038
2019	486
2020	763
2021	839
2022	845
2023	683
2024	705
2025	869
2026	1,001

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Data for records on 1976-07-30: 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	406
10 to 20	36
20 to 30	20
30 to 40	11
40 to 50	3
50 to 60	2
60 to 70	0
70 to 80	1