Weather Records on 30 September 1998

1,206 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 30 September 1998. Highest significance: Union Springs 9 S, US.

Key Facts for 30 September 1998

On 30 September 1998, 1,206 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
810 were record highs and 81 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 40 monthly and 1,166 daily.
Union Springs 9 S set a daily record precipitation of 101.6 mm (4.0 in) on 30 September 1998.
Across 161 earlier years (1806 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 435 records.

Record Map

1,206 stations

1,206 station records on 30 September 1998 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 30 September 1998: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Union Springs 9 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	77 of 100 (Major)
Monticello 5 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	181.6 mm (7.1 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Live Oak	United States	Record daily precipitation	158.8 mm (6.3 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Americus	United States	Record daily precipitation	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Brundidge	United States	Record daily precipitation	121.7 mm (4.8 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Moultrie 2 ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	97.8 mm (3.9 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Clayton	United States	Record daily precipitation	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Kenton	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Clay Ctr	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Wewahitchka	United States	Record daily precipitation	203.2 mm (8.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Valdosta Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.9 mm (2.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Jasper	United States	Record daily precipitation	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Buxton	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Mayo	United States	Record daily precipitation	152.4 mm (6.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
McPherson	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Enterprise 4 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	166.4 mm (6.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Headland	United States	Record daily precipitation	132.3 mm (5.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Montezuma 2 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Abbeville	United States	Record daily precipitation	121.2 mm (4.8 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Mokpo	Korea, South	Record daily precipitation	150.0 mm (5.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Lepel	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	49.7 mm (2.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Usher Twr	United States	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Madison	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Estapilla	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	78.0 mm (3.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Huixtla	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Troy	United States	Record daily precipitation	124.5 mm (4.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Presa Golondrinas	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Olive	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Vitebsk	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
San Miguel Ejutla	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Milstead	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gran Quivira Natl Mon	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Selma	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Berezino	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
La Salada	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	133.9 mm (5.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
San Antonio Arroyo Prieto (Cf	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Colquitt 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Talbotton	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.1 mm (3.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Watonga	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
High Springs	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Apaseo	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Steinhatchee 6 ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.9 mm (4.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Plains SW Ga Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.3 mm (3.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ashburn 3 ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Anna 4 N	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.9 C (93.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Vevay	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.2 C (90.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ulysses 3NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lebanon 2W	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Blair	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Springer	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kingsville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Sierra Blanca 2 E	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Colville	United States	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Twistetal-Muhlhausen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Glennville 3NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Meade	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Rosamorada	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	104.4 mm (4.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Cross City 1 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Wewahitchka	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Manhattan	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,206 records

Records set or tied on 30 September 1998 by type: Highest daily maximum 347, Lowest daily maximum 29, Highest daily minimum 463, Lowest daily minimum 52, Heaviest daily rainfall 314, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 30 September 1998 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	347
Lowest daily maximum	29
Highest daily minimum	463
Lowest daily minimum	52
Heaviest daily rainfall	314
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 30 September 1998 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 40, daily 1,166.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

881 broken records

Margins by which the 881 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 140.7. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

30 September 1998

Top 20 records on 30 September 1998 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
30 September 1998	Union Springs 9 S, US	daily rain	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	92 years	77 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Monticello 5 SE, US	daily rain	181.6 mm (7.1 in)	140.7 mm (5.5 in)	92 years	76 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Live Oak, US	daily rain	158.8 mm (6.3 in)	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	77 years	73 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Americus, US	daily rain	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	92 years	70 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Brundidge, US	daily rain	121.7 mm (4.8 in)	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	68 years	66 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Moultrie 2 ESE, US	daily rain	97.8 mm (3.9 in)	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	68 years	66 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Clayton, US	daily rain	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	108.7 mm (4.3 in)	61 years	65 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Kenton, US	daily rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	52 years	64 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Clay Ctr, US	daily rain	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	87 years	60 of 100 (Major)
30 September 1998	Wewahitchka, US	daily rain	203.2 mm (8.0 in)	126.5 mm (5.0 in)	32 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Valdosta Rgnl AP, US	daily rain	73.9 mm (2.9 in)	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	44 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Jasper, US	daily rain	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	75.0 mm (3.0 in)	44 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Buxton, GB	daily rain	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	68 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Mayo, US	daily rain	152.4 mm (6.0 in)	93.2 mm (3.7 in)	40 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	McPherson, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	91 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Enterprise 4 W, US	monthly rain	166.4 mm (6.6 in)	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	0 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Headland, US	daily rain	132.3 mm (5.2 in)	94.2 mm (3.7 in)	32 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Montezuma 2 NW, US	daily rain	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	61 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Abbeville, US	daily rain	121.2 mm (4.8 in)	92.0 mm (3.6 in)	25 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
30 September 1998	Mokpo, KR	daily rain	150.0 mm (5.9 in)	112.0 mm (4.4 in)	16 years	51 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

1806 to 1998

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1806 to 1998. 1998 had 1,206 records.

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

Records on 09-30 in each year
Year	Records
1806	1
1813	1
1817	1
1819	2
1834	1
1841	1
1842	1
1847	1
1853	1
1854	1
1855	1
1861	1
1862	1
1866	1
1868	2
1869	3
1870	1
1874	1
1877	1
1878	1
1881	5
1883	2
1885	1
1886	3
1887	1
1888	4
1889	1
1892	2
1893	3
1894	8
1895	5
1896	2
1897	3
1898	3
1899	12
1900	4
1901	11
1902	7
1903	9
1904	14
1905	25
1906	14
1907	16
1908	18
1909	10
1910	5
1911	47
1912	47
1913	10
1914	33
1915	84
1916	209
1917	19
1918	45
1919	28
1920	71
1921	61
1922	71
1923	183
1924	243
1925	211
1926	194
1927	486
1928	560
1929	181
1930	110
1931	225
1932	363
1933	437
1934	398
1935	209
1936	432
1937	417
1938	428
1939	371
1940	316
1941	482
1942	405
1943	404
1944	369
1945	889
1946	320
1947	433
1948	267
1949	366
1950	731
1951	597
1952	504
1953	1,136
1954	1,059
1955	406
1956	350
1957	663
1958	442
1959	1,159
1960	161
1961	618
1962	202
1963	818
1964	332
1965	459
1966	592
1967	859
1968	449
1969	465
1970	334
1971	1,359
1972	676
1973	407
1974	742
1975	686
1976	775
1977	870
1978	399
1979	479
1980	832
1981	688
1982	806
1983	1,102
1984	1,267
1985	1,892
1986	1,805
1987	649
1988	453
1989	713
1990	665
1991	949
1992	980
1993	988
1994	816
1995	1,061
1996	1,396
1997	729
1998	1,206
1999	1,144
2000	887
2001	699
2002	677
2003	1,079
2004	573
2005	761
2006	617
2007	841
2008	585
2009	826
2010	1,059
2011	1,258
2012	637
2013	634
2014	529
2015	997
2016	746
2017	404
2018	717
2019	2,192
2020	554
2021	823
2022	563
2023	1,012
2024	948
2025	559
2026	529

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Data for records on 1998-09-30: 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	793
20 to 40	49
40 to 60	20
60 to 80	7
80 to 100	8
100 to 120	2
120 to 140	1
140 to 160	1