Weather Records on 17 April 2006

1,430 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 17 April 2006. Highest significance: Kakinada, IN.

Key Facts for 17 April 2006

On 17 April 2006, 1,430 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
893 were record highs and 206 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 76 monthly and 1,352 daily.
Kakinada set a daily record precipitation of 57.9 mm (2.3 in) on 17 April 2006.
Across 166 earlier years (1799 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 447 records.

Record Map

1,430 stations

1,430 station records on 17 April 2006 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 17 April 2006: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Kakinada	India	Record daily precipitation	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	79 of 100 (Major)
Ashton 1N	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
Denton	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Moccasin Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Truckee Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Park Forest Water	United States	Record daily precipitation	98.6 mm (3.9 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
American Falls 6 NE	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
En Nahud	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
El Obeid	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Ekaterinburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Palestine	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.6 mm (4.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Opheim 10 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Harb	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Begumpet Obsy	India	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Caledonia	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Beowawe	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Susanville 2SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Kilmez	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.8 mm (1.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Manzanita Lake	United States	Record daily snowfall	81.3 cm (32.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Brusett 3 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Pacific House	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Watseka Public Works	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Geraldine	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Verhnee Dubrovo	Russia	Record daily precipitation	31.1 mm (1.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Placerville	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Redstone	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Foresthill Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Island Park	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Cascade	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
San Jon	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Lacon	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Pocatello Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Boca	United States	Record daily snowfall	39.4 cm (15.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Doyle 4 SSE	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
New Hampton	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Okeene	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello Muni AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Oneonta	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Shoals 8 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Peck Pwr Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Telfer Aero	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Gravette	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Burney	United States	Record snow depth	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Boca	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Hall 1 NNE	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Streator 2SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Minot Exp STN	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Wishek	United States	Record high minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Norman 3SSE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Richland	United States	Record low maximum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Santa Rosa	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ak-Bulak	Russia	Record daily precipitation	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hardy	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.2 C (90.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Paoli	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Lakeview	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Jagdalpur	India	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Hope 3 NE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Vinton	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kankakee Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Dickinson Exp STN	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,430 records

Records set or tied on 17 April 2006 by type: Highest daily maximum 620, Lowest daily maximum 80, Highest daily minimum 273, Lowest daily minimum 126, Heaviest daily rainfall 256, Heaviest daily snowfall 51, Deepest snow cover 24.

Records on 17 April 2006 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	620
Lowest daily maximum	80
Highest daily minimum	273
Lowest daily minimum	126
Heaviest daily rainfall	256
Heaviest daily snowfall	51
Deepest snow cover	24

Records on 17 April 2006 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 76, daily 1,352.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,070 broken records

Margins by which the 1,070 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 318.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

17 April 2006

Top 20 records on 17 April 2006 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
17 April 2006	Kakinada, IN	daily rain	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	96 years	79 of 100 (Major)
17 April 2006	Ashton 1N, US	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	19.5 mm (0.8 in)	80 years	74 of 100 (Major)
17 April 2006	Denton, US	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	19.5 mm (0.8 in)	64 years	68 of 100 (Major)
17 April 2006	Moccasin Exp STN, US	daily rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	64 years	65 of 100 (Major)
17 April 2006	Truckee Rs, US	daily rain	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	57 years	64 of 100 (Major)
17 April 2006	Park Forest Water, US	monthly rain	98.6 mm (3.9 in)	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	29 years	63 of 100 (Major)
17 April 2006	American Falls 6 NE, US	daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	112 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	En Nahud, SD	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	44 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	El Obeid, SD	daily rain	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	37 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Ekaterinburg, RU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	8.5 mm (0.33 in)	79 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Palestine, US	monthly rain	102.6 mm (4.0 in)	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	12 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Opheim 10 N, US	daily rain	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	33 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Harb, US	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	43 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Begumpet Obsy, IN	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	29.1 mm (1.1 in)	44 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Caledonia, US	daily rain	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	111 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Beowawe, US	daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	6.3 cm (2.5 in)	88 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Susanville 2SW, US	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	9 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Kilmez, RU	daily rain	27.8 mm (1.1 in)	13.8 mm (0.5 in)	32 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Manzanita Lake, US	monthly snowfall	81.3 cm (32.0 in)	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
17 April 2006	Brusett 3 E, US	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	43 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

1799 to 2006

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1799 to 2006. 2006 had 1,430 records.

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

Records on 04-17 in each year
Year	Records
1799	1
1807	1
1808	1
1815	1
1817	1
1818	1
1819	1
1823	1
1825	1
1830	1
1835	3
1837	1
1845	1
1847	2
1851	1
1852	3
1853	1
1854	1
1855	1
1857	1
1858	1
1862	1
1865	2
1868	1
1873	4
1874	1
1875	3
1877	4
1878	2
1880	2
1889	1
1890	2
1891	2
1892	4
1894	5
1895	1
1896	5
1897	6
1898	3
1899	1
1900	2
1901	4
1902	4
1903	5
1904	19
1905	11
1906	14
1907	16
1908	38
1909	7
1910	29
1911	33
1912	27
1913	20
1914	83
1915	30
1916	30
1917	32
1918	35
1919	39
1920	87
1921	148
1922	96
1923	71
1924	74
1925	103
1926	140
1927	256
1928	308
1929	145
1930	238
1931	216
1932	615
1933	261
1934	234
1935	374
1936	308
1937	439
1938	564
1939	618
1940	337
1941	460
1942	415
1943	285
1944	334
1945	475
1946	492
1947	461
1948	622
1949	439
1950	293
1951	441
1952	529
1953	818
1954	650
1955	394
1956	486
1957	277
1958	702
1959	434
1960	553
1961	667
1962	597
1963	702
1964	766
1965	411
1966	409
1967	935
1968	745
1969	728
1970	547
1971	924
1972	546
1973	589
1974	244
1975	666
1976	1,630
1977	906
1978	620
1979	810
1980	675
1981	621
1982	965
1983	1,365
1984	720
1985	917
1986	997
1987	960
1988	1,082
1989	638
1990	1,065
1991	614
1992	1,105
1993	847
1994	1,047
1995	1,211
1996	1,044
1997	889
1998	1,795
1999	1,730
2000	1,082
2001	1,013
2002	2,284
2003	1,037
2004	761
2005	572
2006	1,430
2007	863
2008	842
2009	779
2010	606
2011	982
2012	920
2013	1,796
2014	913
2015	813
2016	977
2017	469
2018	1,585
2019	458
2020	1,165
2021	701
2022	831
2023	628
2024	690
2025	1,058
2026	838

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Data for records on 2006-04-17: 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	1,033
50 to 100	21
100 to 150	10
150 to 200	3
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	2
300 to 350	1