Weather Records on 26 September 2005

1,541 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 26 September 2005. Highest significance: Savannah 6 SW, US.

Key Facts for 26 September 2005

On 26 September 2005, 1,541 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
1,030 were record highs and 71 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 41 monthly and 1,498 daily.
Savannah 6 SW set a daily record precipitation of 140.0 mm (5.5 in) on 26 September 2005.
Across 167 earlier years (1812 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 407 records.

Record Map

1,541 stations

1,541 station records on 26 September 2005 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 26 September 2005: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Savannah 6 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	140.0 mm (5.5 in)	79 of 100 (Major)
Kosciusko	United States	Record daily precipitation	159.3 mm (6.3 in)	78 of 100 (Major)
Hale Loud Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.1 mm (3.4 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Pickens	United States	Record daily precipitation	179.1 mm (7.1 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Lupton 1S	United States	Record daily precipitation	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Uniontown	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Houghton Lake 6 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Gladwin	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Saint Bernard	United States	Record daily precipitation	126.0 mm (5.0 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Grayling	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Mio Hydro Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Booneville	United States	Record daily precipitation	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Ludington 4 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.5 mm (3.0 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
St Marys 3 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.4 mm (3.5 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
W Branch 3SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Standish 4NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Aberdeen	United States	Record daily precipitation	123.4 mm (4.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Beeville 5 NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.7 C (107.1 F)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Paskeville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Bad Axe	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Bowling Green Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Whitestown	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bluff Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	112.8 mm (4.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Greer	United States	Record high minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Cuero	United States	Record high maximum temperature	42.8 C (109.0 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
University	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.0 mm (3.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Emerson	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Sugar Land	United States	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Lake City Exp Farm	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Montague 4 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Crandall 8 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.8 mm (3.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Llano	United States	Record high maximum temperature	42.8 C (109.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Luling	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.1 C (106.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Tiffin	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Logansport Cicott St	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Columbia	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bosque del Apache	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Danevang 1 W	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Flatonia 4SE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.1 C (106.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Berne Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Hiram	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Brenham	United States	Record high maximum temperature	40.6 C (105.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Huntsville	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Port O'Connor	United States	Record high maximum temperature	38.3 C (100.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Stockholm	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	20.5 C (68.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hillsboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Amite	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Canton 4N	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hattiesburg 5SW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lordsburg 4 SE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Norwalk Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Franklin Sewage Plt	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kenton	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lewisburg Exp STN	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Waynesboro	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Elkhorn	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Cleveland	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Youngstown-Warren Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Brewton 3 SSE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Biloxi	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,541 records

Records set or tied on 26 September 2005 by type: Highest daily maximum 497, Lowest daily maximum 22, Highest daily minimum 533, Lowest daily minimum 49, Heaviest daily rainfall 440.

Records on 26 September 2005 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	497
Lowest daily maximum	22
Highest daily minimum	533
Lowest daily minimum	49
Heaviest daily rainfall	440
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 26 September 2005 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 41, daily 1,498.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,237 broken records

Margins by which the 1,237 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 97.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

26 September 2005

Top 20 records on 26 September 2005 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
26 September 2005	Savannah 6 SW, US	daily rain	140.0 mm (5.5 in)	90.5 mm (3.6 in)	99 years	79 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Kosciusko, US	monthly rain	159.3 mm (6.3 in)	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	98 years	78 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Hale Loud Dam, US	daily rain	86.1 mm (3.4 in)	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	71 years	70 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Pickens, US	monthly rain	179.1 mm (7.1 in)	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	47 years	69 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Lupton 1S, US	monthly rain	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	37 years	66 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Uniontown, US	daily rain	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	61.9 mm (2.4 in)	64 years	65 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Houghton Lake 6 WSW, US	daily rain	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	78 years	63 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Gladwin, US	daily rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	44 years	63 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Saint Bernard, US	daily rain	126.0 mm (5.0 in)	76.5 mm (3.0 in)	43 years	61 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2005	Grayling, US	daily rain	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	63 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Mio Hydro Plt, US	monthly rain	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	7.9 mm (0.31 in)	108 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Booneville, US	daily rain	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	72 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Ludington 4 SE, US	daily rain	76.5 mm (3.0 in)	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	24 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	St Marys 3 W, US	daily rain	88.4 mm (3.5 in)	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	34 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	W Branch 3SE, US	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	44 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Standish 4NE, US	daily rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	19 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Aberdeen, US	monthly rain	123.4 mm (4.9 in)	8.6 mm (0.34 in)	98 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Beeville 5 NE, US	daily high max	41.7 C (107.1 F)	4.5 C (8.1 F)	98 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Paskeville, AU	daily rain	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	40 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2005	Bad Axe, US	daily rain	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	44 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

1812 to 2005

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1812 to 2005. 2005 had 1,541 records.

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

Records on 09-26 in each year
Year	Records
1812	2
1816	1
1825	2
1835	1
1836	1
1842	1
1843	1
1845	1
1852	1
1855	2
1858	1
1859	1
1864	1
1865	2
1866	2
1867	1
1868	1
1869	1
1870	1
1871	1
1874	2
1875	1
1876	1
1877	2
1878	3
1879	2
1880	1
1881	7
1882	1
1885	6
1889	1
1890	2
1891	2
1892	1
1893	3
1894	4
1895	8
1896	4
1897	1
1898	2
1899	5
1900	5
1901	6
1902	8
1903	11
1904	9
1905	20
1906	11
1907	9
1908	31
1909	14
1910	11
1911	19
1912	29
1913	29
1914	24
1915	71
1916	111
1917	49
1918	34
1919	39
1920	66
1921	33
1922	277
1923	89
1924	148
1925	162
1926	658
1927	233
1928	427
1929	183
1930	382
1931	437
1932	183
1933	554
1934	415
1935	248
1936	337
1937	175
1938	429
1939	514
1940	634
1941	233
1942	752
1943	526
1944	243
1945	470
1946	285
1947	630
1948	554
1949	430
1950	526
1951	540
1952	572
1953	364
1954	471
1955	304
1956	701
1957	510
1958	493
1959	505
1960	555
1961	472
1962	401
1963	629
1964	570
1965	710
1966	480
1967	411
1968	311
1969	187
1970	721
1971	649
1972	984
1973	927
1974	854
1975	1,215
1976	692
1977	943
1978	469
1979	566
1980	709
1981	559
1982	1,042
1983	565
1984	1,256
1985	470
1986	1,892
1987	911
1988	445
1989	1,008
1990	618
1991	1,110
1992	725
1993	814
1994	548
1995	836
1996	807
1997	943
1998	1,505
1999	869
2000	1,440
2001	1,354
2002	861
2003	739
2004	507
2005	1,541
2006	620
2007	970
2008	896
2009	1,063
2010	1,063
2011	988
2012	538
2013	774
2014	800
2015	815
2016	660
2017	1,045
2018	747
2019	561
2020	1,170
2021	494
2022	533
2023	543
2024	1,196
2025	435
2026	393

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Data for records on 2005-09-26: 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	1,172
20 to 40	44
40 to 60	15
60 to 80	4
80 to 100	2