Weather Records on 24 October 2000

1,514 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 24 October 2000. Highest significance: Newstead, AU.

Key Facts for 24 October 2000

On 24 October 2000, 1,514 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
683 were record highs and 183 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 8 were all-time records, 62 monthly and 1,444 daily.
Newstead set a monthly record daily precipitation of 83.2 mm (3.3 in) on 24 October 2000.
Across 158 earlier years (1802 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 471 records.

Record Map

1,514 stations

1,514 station records on 24 October 2000 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 24 October 2000: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Newstead	Australia	Record daily precipitation	83.2 mm (3.3 in)	87 of 100 (Exceptional)
Wilsons Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	75.0 mm (3.0 in)	85 of 100 (Exceptional)
Beales Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	81 of 100 (Exceptional)
Geelong Salines (Moolap)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.0 mm (2.8 in)	81 of 100 (Exceptional)
Boort	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
Tullaroop Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.0 mm (2.1 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
Quambatook (Barraport North)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	75.6 mm (3.0 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Boise City 2 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Beeac (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Bravo	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Ness City	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Boort (Gredgwin)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
White Cliffs (Tongo)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Amistad 5 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Bridgewater (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	81.5 mm (3.2 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Elkhart	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Eastville (Bonnie Banks)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Woodstock-on-Loddon (Alexandra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	113.6 mm (4.5 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Richfield 10 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Inglewood (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	88.0 mm (3.5 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Yandoit	Australia	Record daily precipitation	78.0 mm (3.1 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Joyces Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	95.6 mm (3.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Malmsbury Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.0 mm (2.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Vaughan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	101.0 mm (4.0 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Glen Park (White Swan Reservoi	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Ft Supply 3SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Boerne	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Quambatook South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Conchas Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Pasamonte	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Wickliffe	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.5 mm (1.6 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Maxwell 3 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Deniliquin (Wilkinson St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.8 mm (2.8 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Strathbogie North	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Derrinallum (Craigmore)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Stratford	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Sublette 7WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Raton Fltr Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Lockhart River Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Quambatook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	76.8 mm (3.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Darlington (Ware Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Springer	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Raywood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Lovely Banks (Reservoir)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Campbelltown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Ballarat Aerodrome	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Ovre_Svartla	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Cimarron	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Trousdale 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Goodwell Rsch STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Scotsburn (Mount Boninyong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.4 mm (2.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Baynton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	75.0 mm (3.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Greensburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Kingman	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Larned	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Gate	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.0 mm (3.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Perryton 11 WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Kerang (Meran Downs)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.8 mm (1.8 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Tucumcari 4 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Dumas	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,514 records

Records set or tied on 24 October 2000 by type: Highest daily maximum 183, Lowest daily maximum 116, Highest daily minimum 500, Lowest daily minimum 67, Heaviest daily rainfall 639, Heaviest daily snowfall 7, Deepest snow cover 2.

Records on 24 October 2000 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	183
Lowest daily maximum	116
Highest daily minimum	500
Lowest daily minimum	67
Heaviest daily rainfall	639
Heaviest daily snowfall	7
Deepest snow cover	2

Records on 24 October 2000 by timescale: all-time 8, monthly 62, daily 1,444.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,292 broken records

Margins by which the 1,292 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 76.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

24 October 2000

Top 20 records on 24 October 2000 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
24 October 2000	Newstead, AU	monthly rain	83.2 mm (3.3 in)	34.9 mm (1.4 in)	92 years	87 of 100 (Exceptional)
24 October 2000	Wilsons Reservoir, AU	monthly rain	75.0 mm (3.0 in)	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	84 years	85 of 100 (Exceptional)
24 October 2000	Beales Reservoir, AU	monthly rain	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	107 years	81 of 100 (Exceptional)
24 October 2000	Geelong Salines (Moolap), AU	monthly rain	72.0 mm (2.8 in)	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	73 years	81 of 100 (Exceptional)
24 October 2000	Boort, AU	monthly rain	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	117 years	75 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Tullaroop Reservoir, AU	daily rain	53.0 mm (2.1 in)	40.3 mm (1.6 in)	80 years	74 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Quambatook (Barraport North), AU	monthly rain	75.6 mm (3.0 in)	29.6 mm (1.2 in)	52 years	73 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Boise City 2 E, US	daily rain	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	77 years	72 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Beeac (Post Office), AU	daily rain	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	76 years	71 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Bravo, US	monthly rain	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	59 years	69 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Ness City, US	daily rain	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	30.4 mm (1.2 in)	100 years	68 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Boort (Gredgwin), AU	monthly rain	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	52 years	67 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	White Cliffs (Tongo), AU	daily rain	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	23.2 mm (0.9 in)	120 years	65 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Amistad 5 SSW, US	monthly rain	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	70 years	65 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Bridgewater (Post Office), AU	all-time rain	81.5 mm (3.2 in)	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	84 years	64 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Elkhart, US	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	86 years	64 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Eastville (Bonnie Banks), AU	all-time rain	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	0 years	63 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Woodstock-on-Loddon (Alexandra, AU	all-time rain	113.6 mm (4.5 in)	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	0 years	63 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Richfield 10 WSW, US	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	58 years	63 of 100 (Major)
24 October 2000	Inglewood (Post Office), AU	monthly rain	88.0 mm (3.5 in)	13.8 mm (0.5 in)	80 years	62 of 100 (Major)

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

1802 to 2000

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1802 to 2000. 2000 had 1,514 records.

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

Records on 10-24 in each year
Year	Records
1802	2
1840	1
1844	1
1846	1
1849	1
1850	1
1851	1
1857	1
1859	1
1864	1
1866	2
1869	2
1872	2
1873	1
1875	1
1876	2
1877	2
1879	1
1880	7
1881	1
1884	1
1886	2
1887	3
1890	3
1891	3
1892	1
1893	3
1894	3
1895	5
1896	3
1897	1
1898	6
1899	3
1900	9
1901	4
1902	13
1903	6
1904	13
1905	22
1906	30
1907	11
1908	26
1909	13
1910	8
1911	23
1912	37
1913	85
1914	12
1915	43
1916	29
1917	145
1918	27
1919	48
1920	273
1921	54
1922	193
1923	169
1924	94
1925	258
1926	268
1927	308
1928	66
1929	200
1930	420
1931	351
1932	334
1933	256
1934	535
1935	343
1936	223
1937	588
1938	686
1939	776
1940	406
1941	304
1942	299
1943	369
1944	313
1945	549
1946	427
1947	427
1948	215
1949	624
1950	314
1951	546
1952	409
1953	244
1954	538
1955	460
1956	581
1957	673
1958	316
1959	885
1960	378
1961	228
1962	346
1963	1,397
1964	469
1965	387
1966	515
1967	273
1968	206
1969	1,115
1970	594
1971	794
1972	464
1973	558
1974	537
1975	2,018
1976	730
1977	469
1978	594
1979	683
1980	826
1981	1,920
1982	838
1983	662
1984	1,000
1985	902
1986	506
1987	674
1988	512
1989	1,182
1990	594
1991	1,380
1992	1,169
1993	602
1994	594
1995	1,119
1996	1,027
1997	1,400
1998	1,238
1999	1,374
2000	1,514
2001	1,769
2002	2,094
2003	1,934
2004	1,300
2005	973
2006	1,709
2007	1,631
2008	808
2009	870
2010	1,037
2011	658
2012	1,027
2013	497
2014	883
2015	528
2016	622
2017	858
2018	442
2019	761
2020	1,993
2021	588
2022	1,412
2023	682
2024	783
2025	286

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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 2026-10-16 (16 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 10	1,041
10 to 20	148
20 to 30	53
30 to 40	23
40 to 50	14
50 to 60	6
60 to 70	5
70 to 80	2