Weather Records on 16 June 1978

535 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 June 1978. Highest significance: Ulm, DE.

Key Facts for 16 June 1978

On 16 June 1978, 535 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
144 were record highs and 224 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 5 monthly and 528 daily.
Ulm set a daily record precipitation of 32.7 mm (1.3 in) on 16 June 1978.
Across 159 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 436 records.

Record Map

535 stations

535 station records on 16 June 1978 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 June 1978: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Ulm	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Prairie du Chien	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Madison Dane Co Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.6 mm (3.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Mayville	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record daily precipitation	47.1 mm (1.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Darlington Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Viroqua	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Mc Henry 3W	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Stockton 3NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Bolsoy Santar	Russia	Record daily precipitation	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lancaster 4 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Woodburn State Forest	Australia	Record daily precipitation	103.2 mm (4.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Rajkot	India	Record daily precipitation	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Yalwal	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
El Grullo	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Dalton	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Nerriga Composite	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Sidney 1SSE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Marseille Obs. Palais-Lonchamp	France	Record low maximum temperature	18.7 C (65.7 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Castle Rock	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Aurora	United States	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Nikolskoye/Beringa Ostrov	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	12.5 C (54.5 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Buxton	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Virginia City	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Chakola (Umeralla)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Landsort	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	4.5 C (40.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Avalon Pleasure Pier	United States	Record high maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Madison	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Vajda-Guba	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	0.5 C (32.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Tejon Rancho	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Hillsboro 3 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Brodhead Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Muscoda	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Niederstotzingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Vardoe	Norway	Record low minimum temperature	0.1 C (32.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Onawa 3NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Odessa	United States	Record low minimum temperature	1.7 C (35.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Beaver Dam Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Janesville	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Clarke City	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	20.8 C (69.4 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Galena	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Setauket Strong	United States	Record low minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tambo Crossing	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Touros	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ekimchan	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Ana Fire STN	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Freeport Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Dubuque L&D 11	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Humboldt 3 W	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Holton	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Salisbury	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Pineville	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Beloit	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Liepaja	Latvia	Record low minimum temperature	5.1 C (41.2 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Coimbra	Portugal	Record low maximum temperature	17.3 C (63.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Beloit	United States	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Smith Ctr	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Gonvick 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Southport 5 N	United States	Record low minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

535 records

Records set or tied on 16 June 1978 by type: Highest daily maximum 55, Lowest daily maximum 78, Highest daily minimum 89, Lowest daily minimum 146, Heaviest daily rainfall 166, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 16 June 1978 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	55
Lowest daily maximum	78
Highest daily minimum	89
Lowest daily minimum	146
Heaviest daily rainfall	166
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 16 June 1978 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 5, daily 528.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

425 broken records

Margins by which the 425 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 65.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 June 1978

Top 20 records on 16 June 1978 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 June 1978	Ulm, DE	daily rain	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	76 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Prairie du Chien, US	daily rain	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	56.2 mm (2.2 in)	17 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Madison Dane Co Rgnl AP, US	daily rain	86.6 mm (3.4 in)	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	21 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Mayville, US	daily rain	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	52 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Sarajevo, BA	daily rain	47.1 mm (1.9 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	48 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Darlington Wwtp, US	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	57 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Viroqua, US	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	67 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Mc Henry 3W, US	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	39 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Stockton 3NNE, US	daily rain	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	4 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Bolsoy Santar, RU	daily rain	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	32 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Lancaster 4 WSW, US	daily rain	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	20 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Woodburn State Forest, AU	daily rain	103.2 mm (4.1 in)	65.1 mm (2.6 in)	25 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Rajkot, IN	monthly rain	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	13.4 mm (0.5 in)	58 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Yalwal, AU	daily rain	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	25.8 mm (1.0 in)	71 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	El Grullo, MX	all-time high min	24.4 C (75.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	37 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Dalton, US	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	32 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Nerriga Composite, AU	daily rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	64 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Sidney 1SSE, US	daily high min	23.9 C (75.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	80 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Marseille Obs. Palais-Lonchamp, FR	daily low max	18.7 C (65.7 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	76 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
16 June 1978	Castle Rock, US	daily high min	15.0 C (59.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	81 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

1794 to 1978

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1978. 1978 had 535 records.

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

Records on 06-16 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1807	1
1822	1
1839	1
1840	2
1841	1
1844	1
1846	1
1853	1
1856	1
1857	2
1858	2
1866	1
1867	3
1869	2
1870	2
1874	1
1880	1
1882	1
1884	1
1885	2
1887	1
1888	1
1889	1
1890	3
1891	3
1892	1
1893	2
1895	6
1896	2
1897	1
1898	3
1899	2
1900	2
1901	8
1902	13
1903	11
1904	7
1905	9
1906	17
1907	17
1908	46
1909	7
1910	11
1911	18
1912	33
1913	41
1914	49
1915	26
1916	72
1917	71
1918	36
1919	189
1920	85
1921	50
1922	53
1923	115
1924	159
1925	207
1926	122
1927	361
1928	97
1929	193
1930	412
1931	250
1932	146
1933	477
1934	258
1935	301
1936	362
1937	260
1938	381
1939	602
1940	360
1941	239
1942	398
1943	648
1944	530
1945	980
1946	602
1947	348
1948	560
1949	541
1950	495
1951	276
1952	943
1953	428
1954	524
1955	628
1956	434
1957	751
1958	511
1959	389
1960	482
1961	1,345
1962	405
1963	491
1964	713
1965	940
1966	414
1967	529
1968	326
1969	870
1970	443
1971	465
1972	606
1973	564
1974	915
1975	302
1976	733
1977	466
1978	535
1979	585
1980	685
1981	1,500
1982	777
1983	818
1984	584
1985	744
1986	747
1987	1,400
1988	813
1989	1,310
1990	647
1991	851
1992	872
1993	695
1994	1,219
1995	1,674
1996	723
1997	1,104
1998	1,828
1999	1,012
2000	934
2001	606
2002	979
2003	569
2004	783
2005	740
2006	754
2007	1,001
2008	579
2009	729
2010	931
2011	890
2012	706
2013	407
2014	329
2015	988
2016	772
2017	620
2018	932
2019	560
2020	819
2021	1,652
2022	1,237
2023	637
2024	606
2025	676
2026	1,114

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Data for records on 1978-06-16: 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	365
10 to 20	40
20 to 30	11
30 to 40	5
40 to 50	1
50 to 60	2
60 to 70	1