Weather Records on 23 September 2003

1,243 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 23 September 2003. Highest significance: Ashland, US.

Key Facts for 23 September 2003

On 23 September 2003, 1,243 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
686 were record highs and 115 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 60 monthly and 1,183 daily.
Ashland set a daily record precipitation of 113.3 mm (4.5 in) on 23 September 2003.
Across 169 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 427 records.

Record Map

1,243 stations

1,243 station records on 23 September 2003 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 23 September 2003: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Ashland	United States	Record daily precipitation	113.3 mm (4.5 in)	78 of 100 (Major)
Monticello	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Mediterranee	France	Record daily precipitation	186.9 mm (7.4 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Culym	Russia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Hamburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Cumming 2N	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Everett	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Walhalla	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Kingston	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
San Juan de Los Planes	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	162.8 mm (6.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
San Ildelfonso Villa Alta	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Playa Vicente	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Toxaway 2 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	201.4 mm (7.9 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Long Creek	United States	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Kamen-Na-Obi	Russia	Record daily precipitation	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Blairsville Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Experiment	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Santo Domingo	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Wewahitchka	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Drevsjo	Norway	Record daily precipitation	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Khartoum	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Huntington Lake	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Gunnedah Pool	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	19.9 C (67.8 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Cherdyn'	Russia	Record daily precipitation	31.1 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Salisbury	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Lehighton 1SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Albany	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	2.6 C (36.7 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Sydney (Observatory Hill)	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	20.5 C (68.9 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Lancaster 2 NE Filt Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Glens Falls AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Yale 1 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Wooster Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tartu-Toravere	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	23.5 C (74.3 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Sonoita	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Gila Bend 2SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Cataloochee	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Oneida	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Reading Wb City	United States	Record daily precipitation	98.3 mm (3.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Denmark	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
King River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Wien	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	28.0 C (82.4 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Norcross	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Tobyhanna Pocono Mtn AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.0 mm (3.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
San Javier	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	149.9 mm (5.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Evergreen	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Celina	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Buffalo Bill Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Salida	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Hendersonville 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Muonio Alamuonio	Finland	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lake City Exp Farm	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lordsburg 4 SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Andrews	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
High Pt	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Chilo Meldahl Locks & Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Reading 4 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	95.0 mm (3.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Svyatoy Nos;Cape(Closed)	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Beavertown 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.3 mm (2.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hawley 1 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Olinala (Smn)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,243 records

Records set or tied on 23 September 2003 by type: Highest daily maximum 339, Lowest daily maximum 48, Highest daily minimum 347, Lowest daily minimum 67, Heaviest daily rainfall 436, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 23 September 2003 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	339
Lowest daily maximum	48
Highest daily minimum	347
Lowest daily minimum	67
Heaviest daily rainfall	436
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 23 September 2003 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 60, daily 1,183.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

997 broken records

Margins by which the 997 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 153.9. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

23 September 2003

Top 20 records on 23 September 2003 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
23 September 2003	Ashland, US	daily rain	113.3 mm (4.5 in)	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	104 years	78 of 100 (Major)
23 September 2003	Monticello, US	daily rain	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	45.8 mm (1.8 in)	96 years	68 of 100 (Major)
23 September 2003	Mediterranee, FR	monthly rain	186.9 mm (7.4 in)	130.0 mm (5.1 in)	29 years	61 of 100 (Major)
23 September 2003	Culym, RU	daily rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	49 years	60 of 100 (Major)
23 September 2003	Hamburg, US	daily rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	80 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Cumming 2N, US	daily rain	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	56 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Everett, US	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	105 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Walhalla, US	daily rain	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	96 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Kingston, US	daily rain	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	90 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	San Juan de Los Planes, MX	daily rain	162.8 mm (6.4 in)	153.9 mm (6.1 in)	26 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	San Ildelfonso Villa Alta, MX	daily low min	10.6 C (51.1 F)	4.4 C (7.9 F)	49 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Playa Vicente, MX	daily low min	16.7 C (62.1 F)	4.4 C (7.9 F)	38 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Lake Toxaway 2 SW, US	daily rain	201.4 mm (7.9 in)	118.6 mm (4.7 in)	28 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Long Creek, US	daily rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	28 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Kamen-Na-Obi, RU	daily rain	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	20 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Blairsville Exp STN, US	daily rain	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	56 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Experiment, US	daily rain	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	90 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Santo Domingo, MX	daily low min	8.9 C (48.0 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	50 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Wewahitchka, US	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	100 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
23 September 2003	Drevsjo, NO	daily rain	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	33.9 mm (1.3 in)	18 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

1793 to 2003

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 2003. 2003 had 1,243 records.

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

Records on 09-23 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1796	1
1799	1
1804	1
1832	1
1835	1
1838	1
1842	3
1843	1
1845	2
1848	1
1849	1
1850	1
1851	2
1854	3
1855	1
1859	2
1864	1
1865	1
1866	1
1868	1
1871	1
1872	1
1874	1
1875	1
1876	1
1877	1
1881	4
1882	2
1885	1
1886	1
1887	1
1888	1
1889	3
1890	2
1891	1
1892	2
1893	4
1895	9
1896	5
1897	1
1898	2
1899	4
1900	4
1901	2
1902	6
1903	7
1904	19
1905	6
1906	6
1907	19
1908	19
1909	15
1910	8
1911	11
1912	15
1913	22
1914	29
1915	25
1916	324
1917	56
1918	34
1919	40
1920	44
1921	47
1922	34
1923	74
1924	194
1925	223
1926	459
1927	247
1928	382
1929	198
1930	472
1931	600
1932	383
1933	281
1934	361
1935	239
1936	377
1937	557
1938	389
1939	279
1940	374
1941	490
1942	557
1943	322
1944	381
1945	652
1946	623
1947	803
1948	259
1949	496
1950	267
1951	462
1952	432
1953	271
1954	324
1955	852
1956	299
1957	539
1958	641
1959	307
1960	470
1961	670
1962	344
1963	568
1964	322
1965	783
1966	528
1967	341
1968	481
1969	450
1970	1,457
1971	578
1972	461
1973	674
1974	1,543
1975	1,038
1976	463
1977	616
1978	500
1979	586
1980	1,037
1981	717
1982	775
1983	1,744
1984	1,121
1985	924
1986	740
1987	1,077
1988	653
1989	1,376
1990	702
1991	519
1992	976
1993	983
1994	1,140
1995	1,868
1996	809
1997	1,060
1998	1,326
1999	1,207
2000	2,026
2001	790
2002	930
2003	1,243
2004	986
2005	1,207
2006	1,509
2007	1,153
2008	835
2009	1,201
2010	1,360
2011	666
2012	785
2013	573
2014	595
2015	587
2016	774
2017	1,371
2018	693
2019	565
2020	618
2021	602
2022	551
2023	812
2024	499
2025	449
2026	384

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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 2026-10-17 (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	913
20 to 40	54
40 to 60	17
60 to 80	6
80 to 100	2
100 to 120	3
120 to 140	1
140 to 160	1