Weather Records on 7 April 2005

1,002 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 7 April 2005. Highest significance: Batesville, US.

Key Facts for 7 April 2005

On 7 April 2005, 1,002 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
587 were record highs and 82 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 17 monthly and 981 daily.
Batesville set a daily record precipitation of 125.2 mm (4.9 in) on 7 April 2005.
Across 165 earlier years (1800 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 476 records.

Record Map

1,002 stations

1,002 station records on 7 April 2005 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 7 April 2005: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Batesville	United States	Record daily precipitation	125.2 mm (4.9 in)	77 of 100 (Major)
Pawnee City	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Table Rock 4N	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Lincoln 1 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Oregon	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Clifton	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Beloit	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Niceville	United States	Record daily precipitation	167.6 mm (6.6 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Blue Rapids	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Ashland	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.9 mm (3.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Marysville	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Hohenwald	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Grinnell 3 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Kosciusko	United States	Record daily precipitation	146.6 mm (5.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Centerville	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Atmore	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Robertsdale	United States	Record daily precipitation	103.4 mm (4.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Clarinda	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Waynesboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Herkimer	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Jackson Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.6 mm (2.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Dijon-Longvic	France	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Barnard	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Chipley	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.3 mm (3.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Blanchardville #2	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
San Miguel Ejutla	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	40.6 C (105.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Wageningen (Pd)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Jasper	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Baldwyn	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ewa Plantation 741	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Praha-Klementinum	Czech Republic	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Tepelmeme de Morelos	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Blakely	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Osceola	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Grant City	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Fairhope 2 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Zuerich/Fluntern	Switzerland	Record daily precipitation	33.7 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Barneston	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Vale	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mayport Pilot STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Winston Salem Reynolds AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Jalostotitlan	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	1.2 C (34.2 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Postville	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Washington	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Senatobia	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Mutsu	Japan	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Scotia	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Perry	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Charleston	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.2 mm (3.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Holly Springs 4 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.5 mm (3.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Enterprise 4 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Quincy 3 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Ellijay	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Antioch	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Great Bend 3WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Union	United States	Record high minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bolivar Wtr Wks	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Arlington	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Qaqortoq	Greenland [Denmark]	Record daily precipitation	70.0 mm (2.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,002 records

Records set or tied on 7 April 2005 by type: Highest daily maximum 318, Lowest daily maximum 44, Highest daily minimum 269, Lowest daily minimum 38, Heaviest daily rainfall 330, Deepest snow cover 3.

Records on 7 April 2005 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	318
Lowest daily maximum	44
Highest daily minimum	269
Lowest daily minimum	38
Heaviest daily rainfall	330
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	3

Records on 7 April 2005 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 17, daily 981.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

812 broken records

Margins by which the 812 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 330.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

7 April 2005

Top 20 records on 7 April 2005 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
7 April 2005	Batesville, US	daily rain	125.2 mm (4.9 in)	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	112 years	77 of 100 (Major)
7 April 2005	Pawnee City, US	daily rain	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	64 years	69 of 100 (Major)
7 April 2005	Table Rock 4N, US	daily rain	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	68 years	65 of 100 (Major)
7 April 2005	Lincoln 1 SE, US	daily rain	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	92 years	62 of 100 (Major)
7 April 2005	Oregon, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	108 years	62 of 100 (Major)
7 April 2005	Clifton, US	daily rain	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	64 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Beloit, US	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	107 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Niceville, US	daily rain	167.6 mm (6.6 in)	111.5 mm (4.4 in)	32 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Blue Rapids, US	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	17.6 mm (0.7 in)	98 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Ashland, US	daily rain	75.9 mm (3.0 in)	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	54 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Marysville, US	daily rain	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	24.7 mm (1.0 in)	64 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Hohenwald, US	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	94 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Grinnell 3 SW, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	76 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Kosciusko, US	daily rain	146.6 mm (5.8 in)	75.5 mm (3.0 in)	22 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Centerville, US	daily rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	49.6 mm (2.0 in)	63 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Atmore, US	daily rain	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	54 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Robertsdale, US	daily rain	103.4 mm (4.1 in)	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	64 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Clarinda, US	daily rain	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	15.4 mm (0.6 in)	86 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Waynesboro, US	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	102 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
7 April 2005	Herkimer, US	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	48 years	47 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

1800 to 2005

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1800 to 2005. 2005 had 1,002 records.

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

Records on 04-07 in each year
Year	Records
1800	1
1808	1
1809	3
1811	1
1815	2
1839	1
1844	1
1851	1
1854	2
1858	2
1859	1
1863	1
1864	4
1865	1
1866	2
1868	1
1870	1
1871	1
1872	1
1875	2
1876	2
1880	1
1881	3
1882	1
1883	2
1884	1
1885	2
1886	2
1887	1
1888	1
1890	3
1891	2
1893	3
1894	3
1895	2
1896	3
1897	7
1898	3
1899	8
1900	5
1901	6
1902	14
1903	10
1904	11
1905	12
1906	2
1907	33
1908	20
1909	33
1910	24
1911	24
1912	59
1913	55
1914	23
1915	33
1916	62
1917	83
1918	37
1919	157
1920	63
1921	319
1922	57
1923	83
1924	138
1925	152
1926	343
1927	99
1928	378
1929	835
1930	327
1931	406
1932	132
1933	174
1934	230
1935	381
1936	1,184
1937	170
1938	803
1939	956
1940	294
1941	258
1942	420
1943	720
1944	166
1945	356
1946	397
1947	278
1948	734
1949	237
1950	1,030
1951	311
1952	491
1953	425
1954	514
1955	198
1956	458
1957	293
1958	358
1959	384
1960	532
1961	665
1962	572
1963	630
1964	457
1965	342
1966	302
1967	569
1968	302
1969	449
1970	494
1971	1,260
1972	1,290
1973	722
1974	576
1975	1,305
1976	329
1977	1,050
1978	686
1979	691
1980	497
1981	353
1982	3,747
1983	1,517
1984	583
1985	599
1986	901
1987	724
1988	1,402
1989	1,386
1990	813
1991	2,007
1992	693
1993	590
1994	1,144
1995	897
1996	1,112
1997	1,996
1998	1,231
1999	898
2000	634
2001	1,556
2002	755
2003	2,205
2004	554
2005	1,002
2006	856
2007	2,249
2008	807
2009	1,183
2010	1,691
2011	1,187
2012	514
2013	693
2014	936
2015	658
2016	793
2017	692
2018	1,980
2019	604
2020	529
2021	758
2022	818
2023	844
2024	1,360
2025	645
2026	381

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Data for records on 2005-04-07: 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	799
50 to 100	11
100 to 150	1
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	0
300 to 350	1