Weather Records on 8 April 1991

1,886 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 April 1991. Highest significance: Minocqua, US.

Key Facts for 8 April 1991

On 8 April 1991, 1,886 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
1,506 were record highs and 102 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 15 monthly and 1,869 daily.
Minocqua set a daily record precipitation of 42.4 mm (1.7 in) on 8 April 1991.
Across 157 earlier years (1798 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 495 records.

Record Map

1,886 stations

1,886 station records on 8 April 1991 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 April 1991: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Minocqua	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Long Lake Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Jacksonville NAS	United States	Record daily precipitation	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Fazenda Vista Redonda	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	88.5 mm (3.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Oelwein 2 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Spooner Ag Rsch STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Bartow 1SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Hampton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Martinsdale 3 NNW	United States	Record daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Hyannis	United States	Record high maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Lowell	United States	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Toms River	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Mondovi	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Rainbow Rsvr Tomahawk	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Waterloo Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Rhinelander	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Central Michigan UNIV	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Sugar Camp	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Arcade	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Goychay	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Fazenda Cascata	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	87.8 mm (3.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
New Bedford Coop	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Harbor Beach 1 SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Newark Liberty Intl AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Usina Santana (Cpe)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Marengo	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Tipton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Alma	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Alma	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Placid 2 S	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Brodhead Wwtp	United States	Record high minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Mills Wwtp	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Newark Liberty Intl AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Nicosia	Cyprus	Record low maximum temperature	16.4 C (61.5 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Tel Aviv Reading	Israel	Record daily precipitation	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Rantoul	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Gladwin	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Elberton 2 N	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lancaster	United States	Record high minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bolivar	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Elgin Water	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Rochester	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hampton 1S	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Beaver Dam Wwtp	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Cravinhos	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hamburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Waukegan	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Fall Rvr Lake	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Atlanta 5 WNW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Minnesota City Dam 5	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgehampton	United States	Record high maximum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hatfield	United States	Record high minimum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Necedah	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Willow Rsvr	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Wasilla 3 S	United States	Record snow depth	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
New Meadows Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Toledo 3N	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Charlotte	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Detour Village	United States	Record high maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Oswego	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,886 records

Records set or tied on 8 April 1991 by type: Highest daily maximum 664, Lowest daily maximum 29, Highest daily minimum 842, Lowest daily minimum 73, Heaviest daily rainfall 258, Heaviest daily snowfall 14, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 8 April 1991 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	664
Lowest daily maximum	29
Highest daily minimum	842
Lowest daily minimum	73
Heaviest daily rainfall	258
Heaviest daily snowfall	14
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 8 April 1991 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 15, daily 1,869.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,606 broken records

Margins by which the 1,606 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 381.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 April 1991

Top 20 records on 8 April 1991 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 April 1991	Minocqua, US	daily rain	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	84 years	73 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1991	Long Lake Dam, US	daily rain	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	82 years	67 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1991	Jacksonville NAS, US	monthly rain	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	67.6 mm (2.7 in)	5 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Fazenda Vista Redonda, BR	daily rain	88.5 mm (3.5 in)	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	37 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Oelwein 2 S, US	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	25 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Spooner Ag Rsch STN, US	daily rain	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	72 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Bartow 1SE, US	daily rain	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	64 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Hampton, US	daily high min	15.0 C (59.0 F)	7.2 C (13.0 F)	90 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Martinsdale 3 NNW, US	daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	37 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Hyannis, US	daily high max	21.1 C (70.0 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	95 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Lowell, US	daily high max	29.4 C (84.9 F)	6.1 C (11.0 F)	98 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Toms River, US	daily high max	31.1 C (88.0 F)	5.5 C (9.9 F)	97 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Mondovi, US	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	76 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Rainbow Rsvr Tomahawk, US	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	40 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Waterloo Muni AP, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	16 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Rhinelander, US	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	72 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Central Michigan UNIV, US	daily high min	16.7 C (62.1 F)	5.6 C (10.1 F)	88 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Sugar Camp, US	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	10 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Arcade, US	daily high min	13.9 C (57.0 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	95 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1991	Goychay, AZ	all-time rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	9.3 mm (0.37 in)	18 years	44 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

1798 to 1991

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 1991. 1991 had 1,886 records.

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

Records on 04-08 in each year
Year	Records
1798	1
1809	3
1815	1
1830	1
1837	1
1838	1
1843	1
1847	1
1848	1
1854	1
1859	1
1860	1
1864	5
1865	1
1866	1
1871	3
1877	1
1879	1
1881	1
1883	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	3
1889	4
1890	2
1894	3
1895	3
1896	2
1897	2
1898	3
1899	3
1900	7
1901	6
1902	9
1903	9
1904	7
1905	20
1906	4
1907	20
1908	18
1909	16
1910	20
1911	17
1912	84
1913	8
1914	42
1915	69
1916	100
1917	42
1918	43
1919	82
1920	90
1921	440
1922	117
1923	109
1924	194
1925	184
1926	164
1927	160
1928	450
1929	614
1930	261
1931	447
1932	105
1933	158
1934	190
1935	523
1936	662
1937	129
1938	813
1939	707
1940	254
1941	235
1942	359
1943	534
1944	283
1945	669
1946	337
1947	263
1948	569
1949	206
1950	932
1951	244
1952	562
1953	519
1954	322
1955	306
1956	621
1957	397
1958	360
1959	421
1960	366
1961	623
1962	470
1963	566
1964	814
1965	473
1966	315
1967	568
1968	499
1969	765
1970	399
1971	798
1972	1,636
1973	1,104
1974	559
1975	1,410
1976	383
1977	1,469
1978	822
1979	446
1980	755
1981	736
1982	2,690
1983	1,321
1984	1,041
1985	826
1986	901
1987	783
1988	1,224
1989	1,360
1990	907
1991	1,886
1992	534
1993	706
1994	678
1995	812
1996	1,289
1997	2,009
1998	1,101
1999	1,221
2000	817
2001	1,865
2002	761
2003	1,918
2004	676
2005	976
2006	680
2007	2,681
2008	896
2009	1,027
2010	1,128
2011	1,197
2012	407
2013	711
2014	715
2015	825
2016	924
2017	584
2018	1,745
2019	826
2020	916
2021	742
2022	930
2023	585
2024	1,256
2025	484
2026	407

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Data for records on 1991-04-08: 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	1,594
50 to 100	6
100 to 150	4
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	1
250 to 300	0
300 to 350	0
350 to 400	1