Weather Records on 28 July 1996

1,178 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 28 July 1996. Highest significance: Rest Lake, US.

Key Facts for 28 July 1996

On 28 July 1996, 1,178 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
357 were record highs and 244 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 6 were all-time records, 29 monthly and 1,143 daily.
Rest Lake set a daily record precipitation of 88.9 mm (3.5 in) on 28 July 1996.
Across 155 earlier years (1815 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 468 records.

Record Map

1,178 stations

1,178 station records on 28 July 1996 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 28 July 1996: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Rest Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Binnaway (Wattle St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Merriwa (Terragong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.5 mm (2.3 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Hargraves (the Elders)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	61.8 mm (2.4 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Indore	India	Record daily precipitation	168.4 mm (6.6 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Dunedoo Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.4 mm (2.1 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Wooroolin Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Binnaway (Hawthorne)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Ilford (Warrangunyah)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Nanango Wills St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.8 mm (2.2 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Telchaquillo	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Ust-Umalta	Russia	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Coonabarabran (Namoi Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Donaueschingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	68.5 mm (2.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Hemavan	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	46.4 mm (1.8 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Bjorkvik	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Woolgoolga (Clear Place)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	114.2 mm (4.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Mallersdorf/Niederbayern	Germany	Record daily precipitation	62.9 mm (2.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Nambucca Heads Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	109.4 mm (4.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Geurie Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Glommerstrask	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	75.8 mm (3.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Kingaroy Prince Street	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.2 mm (2.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Indooroopilly Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Urunga (Sunset Place)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	89.0 mm (3.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Millthorpe (Inala)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Joesjo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Oxenford (Oberon Way)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Telegraph Point (Farrawells Ro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Bankhead L&D	United States	Record daily precipitation	95.5 mm (3.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Nevada Wtp	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Falls City Brenner Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Molong (King St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Cawker City	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Green Mountains	Australia	Record daily precipitation	92.0 mm (3.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Comboyne Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Carroll	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Willow Tree (Valais)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Wellington (Agrowplow)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
San Juan L M Marin Intl AP	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Prairie du Sac 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Dalveen	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lidsdale (Maddox Lane)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Grand Coteau	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Pokegama Dam	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Pandora	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Pendleton Dwtn	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Saginaw Mbs Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Weetaliba (Weetalabah)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Craigie (Bondi Forest Lodge)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Orleans	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Huckabay	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.6 mm (3.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Cooyar Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Miles Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.2 mm (1.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Autlan	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Harrisville Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Yarraman Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Quirindi (Boxwood)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.4 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hill End Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Strathfield Golf Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Pervomajskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	35.7 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,178 records

Records set or tied on 28 July 1996 by type: Highest daily maximum 118, Lowest daily maximum 147, Highest daily minimum 239, Lowest daily minimum 97, Heaviest daily rainfall 577.

Records on 28 July 1996 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	118
Lowest daily maximum	147
Highest daily minimum	239
Lowest daily minimum	97
Heaviest daily rainfall	577
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 28 July 1996 by timescale: all-time 6, monthly 29, daily 1,143.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

945 broken records

Margins by which the 945 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 113.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

28 July 1996

Top 20 records on 28 July 1996 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
28 July 1996	Rest Lake, US	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	78 years	71 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Binnaway (Wattle St), AU	daily rain	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	89 years	69 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Merriwa (Terragong), AU	daily rain	59.5 mm (2.3 in)	37.7 mm (1.5 in)	68 years	67 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Hargraves (the Elders), AU	daily rain	61.8 mm (2.4 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	80 years	67 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Indore, IN	daily rain	168.4 mm (6.6 in)	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	56 years	65 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Dunedoo Post Office, AU	daily rain	52.4 mm (2.1 in)	28.5 mm (1.1 in)	83 years	64 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Wooroolin Post Office, AU	daily rain	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	46 years	61 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Binnaway (Hawthorne), AU	daily rain	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	24.3 mm (1.0 in)	89 years	60 of 100 (Major)
28 July 1996	Ilford (Warrangunyah), AU	daily rain	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	31.9 mm (1.3 in)	44 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Nanango Wills St, AU	daily rain	54.8 mm (2.2 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	92 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Telchaquillo, MX	daily high min	30.6 C (87.1 F)	7.8 C (14.0 F)	43 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Ust-Umalta, RU	daily rain	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	43.5 mm (1.7 in)	41 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Coonabarabran (Namoi Street), AU	daily rain	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	89 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Donaueschingen, DE	daily rain	68.5 mm (2.7 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	32 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Hemavan, SE	daily rain	46.4 mm (1.8 in)	34.1 mm (1.3 in)	31 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Bjorkvik, SE	daily rain	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	31 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Woolgoolga (Clear Place), AU	daily rain	114.2 mm (4.5 in)	92.6 mm (3.6 in)	6 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Mallersdorf/Niederbayern, DE	daily rain	62.9 mm (2.5 in)	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	24 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Nambucca Heads Bowling Club, AU	daily rain	109.4 mm (4.3 in)	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	46 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
28 July 1996	Geurie Post Office, AU	daily rain	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	83 years	49 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

1815 to 1996

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1815 to 1996. 1996 had 1,178 records.

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

Records on 07-28 in each year
Year	Records
1815	1
1832	2
1834	1
1838	1
1846	1
1848	1
1853	1
1857	1
1860	2
1866	2
1867	1
1872	3
1873	1
1874	1
1882	1
1883	3
1884	3
1886	2
1887	2
1888	3
1890	3
1891	8
1892	3
1893	5
1894	4
1895	6
1896	4
1897	4
1898	6
1900	8
1901	14
1902	4
1903	16
1904	23
1905	10
1906	18
1907	39
1908	15
1909	19
1910	18
1911	61
1912	32
1913	54
1914	42
1915	36
1916	134
1917	84
1918	34
1919	53
1920	95
1921	92
1922	82
1923	193
1924	79
1925	361
1926	175
1927	129
1928	341
1929	215
1930	603
1931	464
1932	184
1933	390
1934	533
1935	354
1936	471
1937	315
1938	264
1939	339
1940	507
1941	525
1942	165
1943	429
1944	349
1945	399
1946	380
1947	630
1948	535
1949	496
1950	1,035
1951	320
1952	669
1953	251
1954	355
1955	537
1956	309
1957	298
1958	549
1959	417
1960	416
1961	357
1962	772
1963	484
1964	422
1965	422
1966	349
1967	458
1968	547
1969	737
1970	343
1971	1,161
1972	675
1973	500
1974	343
1975	537
1976	493
1977	724
1978	681
1979	692
1980	1,170
1981	1,315
1982	774
1983	1,389
1984	1,373
1985	627
1986	868
1987	1,202
1988	761
1989	936
1990	757
1991	768
1992	678
1993	1,026
1994	2,266
1995	1,251
1996	1,178
1997	1,024
1998	1,835
1999	985
2000	857
2001	938
2002	866
2003	932
2004	1,345
2005	1,387
2006	1,398
2007	998
2008	923
2009	964
2010	1,306
2011	1,143
2012	731
2013	1,428
2014	713
2015	911
2016	648
2017	476
2018	655
2019	469
2020	721
2021	831
2022	990
2023	765
2024	668
2025	845
2026	863

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Data for records on 1996-07-28: 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 20	847
20 to 40	77
40 to 60	16
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	1