Weather Records on 16 January 1990

1,692 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 January 1990. Highest significance: Mt Brisbane, AU.

Key Facts for 16 January 1990

On 16 January 1990, 1,692 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
997 were record highs and 73 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 31 monthly and 1,660 daily.
Mt Brisbane set a daily record precipitation of 110.0 mm (4.3 in) on 16 January 1990.
Across 161 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 493 records.

Record Map

1,692 stations

1,692 station records on 16 January 1990 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 January 1990: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Mt Brisbane	Australia	Record daily precipitation	110.0 mm (4.3 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Lowood Don St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	106.6 mm (4.2 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
Bungunya School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.5 mm (4.2 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
Charlevoix	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
Petoskey	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Salisbury Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	122.0 mm (4.8 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Glen Cairn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Allora Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	83.2 mm (3.3 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Eudamullah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Murarrie Road Csiro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	126.0 mm (5.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Talkeetna AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Talkeetna AP	United States	Record daily snowfall	50.0 cm (19.7 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Coorparoo Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	98.6 mm (3.9 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Sandgate Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	82.4 mm (3.2 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Zillmere Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.8 mm (4.2 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Minnie Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Williambury	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Blackbutt Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	90.6 mm (3.6 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Uralla (Dumaresq St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	79.6 mm (3.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Sunnybank Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	92.4 mm (3.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Toowong Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	98.0 mm (3.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Upper Pilton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.6 mm (2.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Hillgrove (Hillview)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Marburg - Warrego Highway	Australia	Record daily precipitation	90.0 mm (3.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Rathdowney Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.2 mm (2.8 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Indooroopilly Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	102.0 mm (4.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Wilburton 9 ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Paia 406	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Valdez WSO	United States	Record daily snowfall	120.7 cm (47.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Mardathuna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Upper Forest Springs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Watauga S Dak 8 N	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Samsonvale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	138.2 mm (5.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Canning Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Worland	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Manchester	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Somerset Dam	Australia	Record daily precipitation	153.0 mm (6.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Viewmount	Australia	Record daily precipitation	84.0 mm (3.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Pratten	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.0 mm (2.8 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Woodside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.2 mm (1.9 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Palolo Vly 718	United States	Record daily precipitation	187.5 mm (7.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Coominya Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	106.2 mm (4.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Toolamba	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.2 mm (2.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Russell Island	Australia	Record daily precipitation	106.2 mm (4.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Lumeah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	104.0 mm (4.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Killarney Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Forest Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Kailua 446	United States	Record daily precipitation	154.9 mm (6.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Koonmarra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Mee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	103.6 mm (4.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Sim Jue Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Manly Railway Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	88.6 mm (3.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Widgee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	85.0 mm (3.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Nowendoc (Beaufort)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Minneapolis	United States	Record high minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gold Creek Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	95.6 mm (3.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Redlands Hrs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Riverside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.6 mm (2.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Tosari	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Uralla (Salisbury Court)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,692 records

Records set or tied on 16 January 1990 by type: Highest daily maximum 486, Lowest daily maximum 44, Highest daily minimum 511, Lowest daily minimum 29, Heaviest daily rainfall 560, Heaviest daily snowfall 56, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 16 January 1990 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	486
Lowest daily maximum	44
Highest daily minimum	511
Lowest daily minimum	29
Heaviest daily rainfall	560
Heaviest daily snowfall	56
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 16 January 1990 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 31, daily 1,660.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,472 broken records

Margins by which the 1,472 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 365.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 January 1990

Top 20 records on 16 January 1990 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 January 1990	Mt Brisbane, AU	daily rain	110.0 mm (4.3 in)	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	91 years	76 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Lowood Don St, AU	daily rain	106.6 mm (4.2 in)	76.6 mm (3.0 in)	84 years	75 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Bungunya School, AU	daily rain	105.5 mm (4.2 in)	59.8 mm (2.4 in)	99 years	75 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Charlevoix, US	daily rain	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	84 years	75 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Petoskey, US	daily rain	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	20.5 mm (0.8 in)	66 years	69 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Salisbury Bowls Club, AU	daily rain	122.0 mm (4.8 in)	68.7 mm (2.7 in)	80 years	65 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Glen Cairn, AU	daily rain	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	90.5 mm (3.6 in)	63 years	64 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Allora Post Office, AU	daily rain	83.2 mm (3.3 in)	56.3 mm (2.2 in)	55 years	63 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Eudamullah, AU	daily rain	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	44.9 mm (1.8 in)	58 years	60 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Murarrie Road Csiro, AU	daily rain	126.0 mm (5.0 in)	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	39 years	60 of 100 (Major)
16 January 1990	Talkeetna AP, US	daily rain	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	38 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Talkeetna AP, US	daily snowfall	50.0 cm (19.7 in)	36.5 cm (14.4 in)	38 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Coorparoo Bowls Club, AU	daily rain	98.6 mm (3.9 in)	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	72 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Sandgate Post Office, AU	daily rain	82.4 mm (3.2 in)	44.3 mm (1.7 in)	98 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Zillmere Post Office, AU	daily rain	105.8 mm (4.2 in)	59.8 mm (2.4 in)	76 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Minnie Creek, AU	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	75 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Williambury, AU	daily rain	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	32.4 mm (1.3 in)	72 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Blackbutt Post Office, AU	daily rain	90.6 mm (3.6 in)	39.5 mm (1.6 in)	80 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Uralla (Dumaresq St), AU	daily rain	79.6 mm (3.1 in)	37.9 mm (1.5 in)	68 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
16 January 1990	Sunnybank Bowls Club, AU	daily rain	92.4 mm (3.6 in)	44.6 mm (1.8 in)	80 years	54 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

1795 to 1990

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 1990. 1990 had 1,692 records.

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

Records on 01-16 in each year
Year	Records
1795	1
1799	1
1804	1
1818	1
1820	2
1826	2
1836	1
1838	1
1839	1
1845	3
1847	1
1849	2
1851	1
1852	2
1858	1
1864	1
1866	1
1867	1
1868	1
1869	1
1871	1
1873	2
1875	3
1877	1
1878	2
1881	4
1886	1
1890	2
1891	1
1892	1
1893	8
1895	5
1896	4
1897	2
1898	2
1899	17
1900	1
1901	1
1902	5
1904	6
1905	22
1906	26
1907	17
1908	14
1909	19
1910	21
1911	15
1912	38
1913	52
1914	16
1915	29
1916	28
1917	30
1918	89
1919	50
1920	249
1921	36
1922	29
1923	47
1924	277
1925	237
1926	69
1927	250
1928	327
1929	130
1930	680
1931	160
1932	605
1933	343
1934	99
1935	426
1936	349
1937	186
1938	549
1939	539
1940	284
1941	601
1942	585
1943	628
1944	252
1945	434
1946	430
1947	597
1948	299
1949	933
1950	855
1951	679
1952	614
1953	1,040
1954	882
1955	318
1956	519
1957	795
1958	459
1959	462
1960	349
1961	864
1962	387
1963	996
1964	577
1965	910
1966	464
1967	516
1968	536
1969	630
1970	729
1971	628
1972	1,724
1973	1,134
1974	1,957
1975	717
1976	593
1977	1,430
1978	1,399
1979	1,043
1980	965
1981	815
1982	1,121
1983	759
1984	1,376
1985	846
1986	785
1987	1,465
1988	597
1989	835
1990	1,692
1991	897
1992	1,150
1993	1,351
1994	2,003
1995	1,381
1996	995
1997	1,016
1998	884
1999	816
2000	1,073
2001	753
2002	605
2003	691
2004	1,446
2005	654
2006	746
2007	1,962
2008	777
2009	1,328
2010	739
2011	996
2012	569
2013	990
2014	534
2015	424
2016	453
2017	1,104
2018	1,045
2019	512
2020	1,098
2021	544
2022	576
2023	646
2024	2,401
2025	684
2026	506

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Data for records on 1990-01-16: 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 50	1,417
50 to 100	48
100 to 150	4
150 to 200	1
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	1
300 to 350	0
350 to 400	1