Weather Records on 26 September 2011

988 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 26 September 2011. Highest significance: Middletown, US.

Key Facts for 26 September 2011

On 26 September 2011, 988 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
649 were record highs and 86 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 28 monthly and 960 daily.
Middletown set a daily record precipitation of 99.1 mm (3.9 in) on 26 September 2011.
Across 167 earlier years (1812 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 410 records.

Record Map

988 stations

988 station records on 26 September 2011 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 26 September 2011: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Middletown	United States	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Culpanovo	Russia	Record daily precipitation	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Bezenchuk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Piqua	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.5 mm (2.6 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Sernovodsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Dungog Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Makaweli 965	United States	Record low minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Dayton Mcd	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Cleveland	United States	Record daily precipitation	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
New Carlisle	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Yelabuga	Russia	Record daily precipitation	35.7 mm (1.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Rockford Gtr Rockford AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	99.8 mm (3.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Puottaure	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Jokkmokk	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Crescent Head	Australia	Record daily precipitation	61.2 mm (2.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Telegraph Point (Farrawells Ro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.8 mm (1.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Zima	Russia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Ourimbah (Dog Trap Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.6 mm (3.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Naze	Japan	Record daily precipitation	310.4 mm (12.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Pleasant Hill	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Taylorsville 2SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Dayton Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Debessy	Russia	Record daily precipitation	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Nattavaara_A	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Cheviot	United States	Record daily precipitation	114.6 mm (4.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky I	United States	Record daily precipitation	95.5 mm (3.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Vidsel	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Vernon	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Carmel	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Washington 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Carbondale Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Murjek	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Roy	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Bellefontaine	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sidney 1 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hartford Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Teloloapan	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Anna 4 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hopkinsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Seal Rocks Camping Reserve	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
The Entrance (Eloora Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	110.0 mm (4.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Wyee (Wyee Farms Rd)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	127.2 mm (5.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Blackfoot Fire Dept	United States	Record high minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Farmerville	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Elephant Butte Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Warsaw 2 NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Chilton	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Scottsbluff W B Heilig Fld AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Stroud Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.4 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Paterson Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Medio Monte	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Jesup 8 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Jackson	United States	Record low maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Petropavlovskij Majak	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	16.6 C (61.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hardy	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Pocahontas 1	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hancock Exp Farm	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Gosford (Narara Research Stati	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	24.3 C (75.7 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ogdensburg 4 NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

988 records

Records set or tied on 26 September 2011 by type: Highest daily maximum 424, Lowest daily maximum 39, Highest daily minimum 225, Lowest daily minimum 47, Heaviest daily rainfall 252, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 26 September 2011 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	424
Lowest daily maximum	39
Highest daily minimum	225
Lowest daily minimum	47
Heaviest daily rainfall	252
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 26 September 2011 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 28, daily 960.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

718 broken records

Margins by which the 718 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 110.8. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

26 September 2011

Top 20 records on 26 September 2011 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
26 September 2011	Middletown, US	daily rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	73 years	70 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2011	Culpanovo, RU	monthly rain	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	18.9 mm (0.7 in)	43 years	69 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2011	Bezenchuk, RU	daily rain	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	57 years	67 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2011	Piqua, US	daily rain	65.5 mm (2.6 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	73 years	65 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2011	Sernovodsk, RU	daily rain	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	56 years	64 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2011	Dungog Post Office, AU	daily rain	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	61 years	61 of 100 (Major)
26 September 2011	Makaweli 965, US	monthly low min	13.9 C (57.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	102 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Dayton Mcd, US	daily rain	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	17 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Cleveland, US	daily rain	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	30 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	New Carlisle, US	daily rain	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	26 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Yelabuga, RU	daily rain	35.7 mm (1.4 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	24 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Rockford Gtr Rockford AP, US	daily rain	99.8 mm (3.9 in)	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	52 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Puottaure, SE	daily rain	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	36 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Jokkmokk, SE	daily rain	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	10.3 mm (0.4 in)	66 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Crescent Head, AU	daily rain	61.2 mm (2.4 in)	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	48 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Telegraph Point (Farrawells Ro, AU	daily rain	45.8 mm (1.8 in)	17.9 mm (0.7 in)	100 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Zima, RU	daily rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	48 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Ourimbah (Dog Trap Road), AU	daily rain	94.6 mm (3.7 in)	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Naze, JP	daily rain	310.4 mm (12.2 in)	110.8 mm (4.4 in)	53 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
26 September 2011	Pleasant Hill, US	daily rain	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	73 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

1812 to 2011

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1812 to 2011. 2011 had 988 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

Download the Data

Data for records on 2011-09-26: 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	659
20 to 40	43
40 to 60	10
60 to 80	5
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	1