Weather Records on 8 October 2009

1,506 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 October 2009. Highest significance: Uccle, BE.

Key Facts for 8 October 2009

On 8 October 2009, 1,506 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
914 were record highs and 243 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 129 monthly and 1,374 daily.
Uccle set a daily record precipitation of 46.0 mm (1.8 in) on 8 October 2009.
Across 164 earlier years (1802 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 460 records.

Record Map

1,506 stations

1,506 station records on 8 October 2009 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 October 2009: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Uccle	Belgium	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
Weissenburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Walnut 4S	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.7 mm (3.1 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Pawhuska	United States	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Paoli	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Okeene	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
1 WSW Princeton	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Excame	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Eden (Timbillica)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Chanute Martin Johnson AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Evansville Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Warrenton 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Hermosa 3 SSW	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Lakeside	United States	Record daily precipitation	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Warrensburg 4NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Springfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Tsu	Japan	Record daily precipitation	191.5 mm (7.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
San Pedro Nexapa	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Zaragoza	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
De Funiak Springs 1 E	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Billings 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	135.4 mm (5.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Newcastle	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bartlesville Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	115.6 mm (4.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Szczecin	Poland	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Santiago	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ponce 4 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Pierce 1 E	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Vichy Rolla Natl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.6 mm (3.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Shirakawa	Japan	Record daily precipitation	95.0 mm (3.7 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Harrison Boone Co AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
El Mezquital KM. 150	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Ayutla	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Hamar-Daban	Russia	Record daily precipitation	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Freedom	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
La Villita	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Manuel Avila Camacho	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lima	United States	Record snow depth	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sheridan Fld STN	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sonnblick	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	3.2 C (37.8 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Yokohama	Japan	Record daily precipitation	162.6 mm (6.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Grand Coteau	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Springfield Abraham Lincoln Ca	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Bjelasnica	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record high maximum temperature	13.8 C (56.8 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Aikawa	Japan	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Gol - Stake	Norway	Record snow depth	18.0 cm (7.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Shawneetown Old Town	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Covington 8 WNW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Jeanerette 5 NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Hattiesburg 5SW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Beaumont City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Tibooburra Post Office	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	6.5 C (43.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Craigie (Bondi Forest Lodge)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.4 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Vasilevici	Belarus	Record high minimum temperature	12.6 C (54.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Sigmaringen-Laiz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Osijek	Croatia	Record high maximum temperature	29.6 C (85.3 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Miyako	Japan	Record daily precipitation	138.9 mm (5.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hurbanovo	Slovakia	Record high maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
San Ignacio	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Avon Park 2 W	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Inverness 3 SE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,506 records

Records set or tied on 8 October 2009 by type: Highest daily maximum 348, Lowest daily maximum 91, Highest daily minimum 566, Lowest daily minimum 152, Heaviest daily rainfall 281, Heaviest daily snowfall 20, Deepest snow cover 48.

Records on 8 October 2009 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	348
Lowest daily maximum	91
Highest daily minimum	566
Lowest daily minimum	152
Heaviest daily rainfall	281
Heaviest daily snowfall	20
Deepest snow cover	48

Records on 8 October 2009 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 129, daily 1,374.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,079 broken records

Margins by which the 1,079 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 220.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 October 2009

Top 20 records on 8 October 2009 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 October 2009	Uccle, BE	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	128 years	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
8 October 2009	Weissenburg, DE	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	72 years	62 of 100 (Major)
8 October 2009	Walnut 4S, US	daily rain	77.7 mm (3.1 in)	45.4 mm (1.8 in)	88 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 October 2009	Pawhuska, US	daily rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	39 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 October 2009	Paoli, US	daily rain	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	34 years	60 of 100 (Major)
8 October 2009	Okeene, US	daily rain	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	100 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	1 WSW Princeton, US	daily rain	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	95 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Excame, MX	daily rain	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	27 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Eden (Timbillica), AU	daily rain	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	86 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Chanute Martin Johnson AP, US	daily rain	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	39 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Evansville Rgnl AP, US	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	43.1 mm (1.7 in)	39 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Warrenton 1 N, US	daily rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	95 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Hermosa 3 SSW, US	daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	103 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Lakeside, US	daily rain	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	15 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Warrensburg 4NW, US	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	95 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Springfield, US	daily rain	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	15 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Tsu, JP	monthly rain	191.5 mm (7.5 in)	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	41 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	San Pedro Nexapa, MX	daily rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	32 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	Zaragoza, MX	monthly rain	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	16.1 mm (0.6 in)	42 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 October 2009	De Funiak Springs 1 E, US	monthly high min	24.4 C (75.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	111 years	50 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

1802 to 2009

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1802 to 2009. 2009 had 1,506 records.

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

Records on 10-08 in each year
Year	Records
1802	1
1812	1
1815	1
1824	2
1829	1
1834	1
1839	2
1843	1
1849	1
1852	1
1854	1
1857	1
1863	1
1864	3
1865	2
1869	1
1870	1
1873	2
1874	1
1876	2
1877	1
1878	1
1880	2
1881	2
1882	2
1884	1
1886	2
1887	1
1888	6
1889	5
1890	2
1891	2
1893	4
1894	1
1895	4
1896	3
1897	2
1898	4
1899	1
1900	13
1901	5
1903	6
1904	11
1905	12
1906	2
1907	17
1908	27
1909	9
1910	13
1911	14
1912	17
1913	66
1914	27
1915	18
1916	121
1917	47
1918	33
1919	98
1920	104
1921	90
1922	51
1923	127
1924	118
1925	207
1926	162
1927	106
1928	303
1929	75
1930	400
1931	391
1932	283
1933	237
1934	241
1935	427
1936	645
1937	262
1938	331
1939	810
1940	170
1941	587
1942	209
1943	405
1944	191
1945	314
1946	471
1947	311
1948	344
1949	1,198
1950	535
1951	417
1952	1,034
1953	401
1954	521
1955	600
1956	556
1957	473
1958	451
1959	962
1960	316
1961	630
1962	597
1963	363
1964	1,078
1965	449
1966	394
1967	452
1968	405
1969	307
1970	1,672
1971	468
1972	367
1973	770
1974	604
1975	1,034
1976	1,302
1977	818
1978	671
1979	882
1980	758
1981	719
1982	1,184
1983	712
1984	694
1985	1,635
1986	429
1987	1,271
1988	793
1989	641
1990	1,438
1991	915
1992	1,277
1993	946
1994	1,259
1995	703
1996	1,261
1997	2,604
1998	941
1999	1,196
2000	2,916
2001	810
2002	706
2003	1,225
2004	748
2005	1,303
2006	625
2007	1,924
2008	582
2009	1,506
2010	1,062
2011	1,055
2012	943
2013	496
2014	554
2015	682
2016	550
2017	944
2018	1,135
2019	532
2020	1,163
2021	766
2022	572
2023	720
2024	877
2025	585
2026	784

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Data for records on 2009-10-08: 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	1,032
50 to 100	38
100 to 150	5
150 to 200	2
200 to 250	2