Weather Records on 14 September 1987

856 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 14 September 1987. Highest significance: Jurun-In-Kazakh, KZ.

Key Facts for 14 September 1987

On 14 September 1987, 856 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
563 were record highs and 129 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 41 monthly and 811 daily.
Jurun-In-Kazakh set a daily record precipitation of 37.0 mm (1.5 in) on 14 September 1987.
Across 159 earlier years (1814 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 438 records.

Record Map

856 stations

856 station records on 14 September 1987 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 14 September 1987: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Jurun-In-Kazakh	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Oak Ridge Rsvr	United States	Record daily precipitation	115.6 mm (4.6 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Freiburg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	22.5 C (72.5 F)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Denison Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Praha-Klementinum	Czech Republic	Record high minimum temperature	19.6 C (67.3 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Donnybrook	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	29.7 C (85.5 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Humacao 2 SSE	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Greenwood Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Vernon	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Col du Grand St-Bernard	Switzerland	Record high maximum temperature	19.1 C (66.4 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Drobeta Turnu Severin	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	39.0 C (102.2 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Wien	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	19.3 C (66.7 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Paul	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Canistear Rsvr	United States	Record daily precipitation	149.9 mm (5.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Shamokin	United States	Record daily precipitation	124.0 mm (4.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Cavendish	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Jumatan (Cfe)	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kenai AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-6.1 C (21.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Zuerich/Fluntern	Switzerland	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Nashua 2 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Podor	Senegal	Record high maximum temperature	42.4 C (108.3 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Shuttle Meadow Rsvr	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.9 mm (3.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Buzau	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	36.2 C (97.2 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Usina Paineiras (Dnos)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Milford 4 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.7 mm (3.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Charlotteburg Rsvr	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bjelasnica	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record high minimum temperature	14.2 C (57.6 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
West Hartford Nepp	United States	Record daily precipitation	98.0 mm (3.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kingston 5 SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Arad	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	33.8 C (92.8 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.8 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Glenwood Spgs #2	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Stockton	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record high maximum temperature	33.9 C (93.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Regensburg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	16.3 C (61.3 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Altotonga	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
San Saba	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Sitka Magnetic Obsy	United States	Record low maximum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kremsmuenster	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	17.5 C (63.5 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Calarasi	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	34.3 C (93.7 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bridgeport	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Mullewa	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	16.5 C (61.7 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bjelasnica	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record high maximum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Holyoke	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Perth Regional Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	30.9 C (87.6 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bridgetown Comparison	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	28.6 C (83.5 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bujumbura	Burundi	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Heilbronn	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Axel	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Gulkana AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
St Petersburg	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Lake Park 3SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Le Bourget	France	Record high minimum temperature	18.2 C (64.8 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Schallstadt-Mengen	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	21.5 C (70.7 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ingenio Tamazula	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Valley	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-3.9 C (25.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Whitingham 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sonnblick	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	11.0 C (51.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	32.0 C (89.6 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Budapest	Hungary	Record high minimum temperature	18.8 C (65.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

856 records

Records set or tied on 14 September 1987 by type: Highest daily maximum 266, Lowest daily maximum 60, Highest daily minimum 297, Lowest daily minimum 69, Heaviest daily rainfall 163, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 14 September 1987 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	266
Lowest daily maximum	60
Highest daily minimum	297
Lowest daily minimum	69
Heaviest daily rainfall	163
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 14 September 1987 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 41, daily 811.

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 93.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

14 September 1987

Top 20 records on 14 September 1987 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
14 September 1987	Jurun-In-Kazakh, KZ	daily rain	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	25.8 mm (1.0 in)	40 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Oak Ridge Rsvr, US	daily rain	115.6 mm (4.6 in)	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	42 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Freiburg, DE	daily high min	22.5 C (72.5 F)	4.8 C (8.6 F)	94 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Denison Dam, US	daily rain	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	29 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Praha-Klementinum, CZ	daily high min	19.6 C (67.3 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	205 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Donnybrook, AU	daily high max	29.7 C (85.5 F)	5.8 C (10.4 F)	72 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Humacao 2 SSE, PR	daily low max	25.6 C (78.1 F)	3.8 C (6.8 F)	56 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Greenwood Lake, US	daily rain	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	42 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Vernon, US	daily rain	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	24.2 mm (1.0 in)	70 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Col du Grand St-Bernard, CH	monthly high max	19.1 C (66.4 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	89 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Drobeta Turnu Severin, RO	daily high max	39.0 C (102.2 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	84 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Wien, AT	daily high min	19.3 C (66.7 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	119 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Saint Paul, US	daily rain	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	90 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Canistear Rsvr, US	monthly rain	149.9 mm (5.9 in)	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	35 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Shamokin, US	monthly rain	124.0 mm (4.9 in)	38.7 mm (1.5 in)	11 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Cavendish, US	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	76 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Jumatan (Cfe), MX	daily high min	26.7 C (80.1 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	36 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Kenai AP, US	daily low min	-6.1 C (21.0 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	86 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Zuerich/Fluntern, CH	monthly high min	17.8 C (64.0 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	81 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 1987	Nashua 2 NNW, US	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	94 years	42 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

1814 to 1987

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1814 to 1987. 1987 had 856 records.

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

Records on 09-14 in each year
Year	Records
1814	1
1828	1
1830	1
1831	1
1833	1
1835	1
1837	3
1848	1
1854	1
1861	1
1867	2
1868	2
1870	1
1872	1
1873	3
1874	1
1876	2
1879	1
1880	1
1882	1
1886	5
1887	3
1888	1
1889	1
1890	1
1891	2
1893	1
1894	2
1895	2
1896	1
1897	2
1898	4
1899	2
1900	2
1901	11
1902	12
1903	34
1904	13
1905	12
1906	14
1907	7
1908	16
1909	31
1910	9
1911	61
1912	50
1913	36
1914	31
1915	116
1916	13
1917	30
1918	35
1919	166
1920	108
1921	38
1922	77
1923	279
1924	95
1925	206
1926	49
1927	455
1928	116
1929	185
1930	197
1931	652
1932	211
1933	365
1934	181
1935	636
1936	609
1937	406
1938	335
1939	1,007
1940	415
1941	227
1942	186
1943	281
1944	293
1945	691
1946	379
1947	718
1948	504
1949	640
1950	327
1951	422
1952	469
1953	680
1954	275
1955	469
1956	479
1957	490
1958	254
1959	702
1960	599
1961	956
1962	339
1963	592
1964	658
1965	640
1966	888
1967	355
1968	369
1969	429
1970	1,351
1971	549
1972	409
1973	854
1974	622
1975	880
1976	547
1977	572
1978	663
1979	957
1980	543
1981	486
1982	1,012
1983	623
1984	855
1985	736
1986	716
1987	856
1988	781
1989	1,127
1990	1,088
1991	999
1992	677
1993	2,279
1994	1,143
1995	904
1996	1,091
1997	786
1998	2,049
1999	854
2000	997
2001	813
2002	899
2003	821
2004	762
2005	878
2006	1,009
2007	672
2008	1,437
2009	843
2010	938
2011	1,132
2012	634
2013	760
2014	758
2015	888
2016	1,387
2017	677
2018	632
2019	524
2020	671
2021	419
2022	612
2023	507
2024	838
2025	527
2026	784

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Data for records on 1987-09-14: 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 2026-10-18. Last revised 18 October 2026 (2026-10-18).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	646
20 to 40	18
40 to 60	4
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	1