Weather Records on 6 August 2012

845 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 6 August 2012. Highest significance: Bergvik, SE.

Key Facts for 6 August 2012

On 6 August 2012, 845 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
533 were record highs and 118 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 10 were all-time records, 32 monthly and 803 daily.
Bergvik set a daily record precipitation of 47.8 mm (1.9 in) on 6 August 2012.
Across 165 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 444 records.

Record Map

845 stations

845 station records on 6 August 2012 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 6 August 2012: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bergvik	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Kaneohe Bay MCAS	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Carthage	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Olga 2 SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Brownsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Arvaiheer	Mongolia	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Grimeli I Krodsherad	Norway	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Springer	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Hachijojima	Japan	Record daily precipitation	137.9 mm (5.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
La Rumorosa	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Hammonton 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Hvaler	Norway	Record daily precipitation	40.5 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Hurbanovo	Slovakia	Record high maximum temperature	37.6 C (99.7 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kisinev	Moldova	Record high minimum temperature	23.7 C (74.7 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ojmjakon	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Berg	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	27.8 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Nikolaev	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Fontenelle Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Washington 2 ESE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
La Rumorosa	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Baterod	Norway	Record daily precipitation	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Calarasi	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	39.6 C (103.3 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
El-Ton	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	26.4 C (79.5 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Condon	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ashland	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Buffalo	United States	Record low minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ocozocoautla	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Buffalo Bill Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Osijek	Croatia	Record high maximum temperature	40.1 C (104.2 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Eikeland	Norway	Record daily precipitation	45.3 mm (1.8 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Princess Anne	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Risor Brannstasjon	Norway	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kvavik	Norway	Record daily precipitation	58.5 mm (2.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Nordkoster A	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	37.7 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Cairo 1SW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Saucier Exp Forest	United States	Record daily precipitation	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Clarksville	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Lviv	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Daytona Beach	United States	Record low maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Pohnpei WSO	Federated States of Micronesia	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Foldsae	Norway	Record daily precipitation	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Nikolaev	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	37.9 C (100.2 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kouvola Utti Lentoportintie	Finland	Record daily precipitation	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Budapest	Hungary	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Dibrugarh/Mohanbar	India	Record daily precipitation	136.9 mm (5.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kantunilkin	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	105.4 mm (4.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ljubljana Bezigrad	Slovenia	Record high maximum temperature	34.9 C (94.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Norrveda	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Eupora 2 E	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lordsburg 4 SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Penang Intl	Malaysia	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Gjerstad I Aust-Agder	Norway	Record daily precipitation	49.1 mm (1.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Cedar Lake	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Pinsk	Belarus	Record high maximum temperature	35.3 C (95.5 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Blokzijl	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Ostrov Vize	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	2.7 C (36.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Zlatoust	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Nerchinskij Zavod	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	33.0 C (91.4 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Charlottenberg	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	33.4 mm (1.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Volodymyr-Volynskyi	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	36.2 C (97.2 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

845 records

Records set or tied on 6 August 2012 by type: Highest daily maximum 232, Lowest daily maximum 40, Highest daily minimum 301, Lowest daily minimum 78, Heaviest daily rainfall 194.

Records on 6 August 2012 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	232
Lowest daily maximum	40
Highest daily minimum	301
Lowest daily minimum	78
Heaviest daily rainfall	194
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 6 August 2012 by timescale: all-time 10, monthly 32, daily 803.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

632 broken records

Margins by which the 632 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 59.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

6 August 2012

Top 20 records on 6 August 2012 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
6 August 2012	Bergvik, SE	daily rain	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	57 years	63 of 100 (Major)
6 August 2012	Kaneohe Bay MCAS, US	all-time high max	35.6 C (96.1 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	24 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Carthage, US	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	111 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Olga 2 SE, US	daily high min	15.6 C (60.1 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	108 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Brownsville, US	daily rain	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	43 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Arvaiheer, MN	daily rain	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	12 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Grimeli I Krodsherad, NO	daily rain	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	27 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Springer, US	daily high min	19.4 C (66.9 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	117 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Hachijojima, JP	daily rain	137.9 mm (5.4 in)	59.1 mm (2.3 in)	59 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	La Rumorosa, MX	daily low min	8.9 C (48.0 F)	4.4 C (7.9 F)	79 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Hammonton 1 NE, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	60 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Hvaler, NO	daily rain	40.5 mm (1.6 in)	17.1 mm (0.7 in)	50 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Hurbanovo, SK	daily high max	37.6 C (99.7 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	107 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Kisinev, MD	daily high min	23.7 C (74.7 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	103 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Ojmjakon, RU	monthly rain	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	3.1 mm (0.12 in)	64 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Berg, SE	daily rain	27.8 mm (1.1 in)	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	34 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Nikolaev, UA	daily high min	23.9 C (75.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	102 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Fontenelle Dam, US	all-time high min	18.3 C (64.9 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	49 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	Washington 2 ESE, US	daily high min	25.0 C (77.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	96 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2012	La Rumorosa, MX	daily high max	38.9 C (102.0 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	79 years	41 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

1794 to 2012

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 2012. 2012 had 845 records.

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

Records on 08-06 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1806	1
1808	1
1809	1
1810	1
1822	1
1830	1
1833	1
1847	1
1849	1
1856	3
1857	2
1858	1
1859	1
1861	1
1866	1
1869	1
1871	2
1876	1
1878	3
1879	1
1881	3
1883	1
1884	1
1885	3
1886	2
1887	1
1888	7
1889	3
1890	2
1891	2
1892	3
1893	1
1894	1
1895	6
1896	6
1897	1
1898	5
1899	2
1900	6
1901	7
1902	4
1903	16
1904	13
1905	13
1906	24
1907	26
1908	17
1909	14
1910	20
1911	22
1912	57
1913	41
1914	6
1915	108
1916	40
1917	35
1918	526
1919	92
1920	39
1921	49
1922	90
1923	113
1924	150
1925	78
1926	85
1927	132
1928	101
1929	189
1930	356
1931	349
1932	226
1933	284
1934	580
1935	330
1936	318
1937	371
1938	308
1939	311
1940	385
1941	356
1942	303
1943	248
1944	312
1945	458
1946	430
1947	625
1948	1,166
1949	464
1950	480
1951	720
1952	513
1953	646
1954	532
1955	531
1956	447
1957	949
1958	521
1959	422
1960	250
1961	551
1962	496
1963	258
1964	481
1965	390
1966	378
1967	757
1968	586
1969	613
1970	504
1971	945
1972	877
1973	876
1974	884
1975	749
1976	923
1977	623
1978	790
1979	544
1980	818
1981	855
1982	643
1983	1,281
1984	815
1985	874
1986	648
1987	948
1988	873
1989	879
1990	1,463
1991	1,100
1992	1,053
1993	1,569
1994	1,918
1995	1,500
1996	1,038
1997	1,216
1998	1,546
1999	938
2000	870
2001	1,100
2002	988
2003	1,221
2004	1,076
2005	756
2006	849
2007	991
2008	820
2009	1,033
2010	1,205
2011	1,357
2012	845
2013	722
2014	673
2015	827
2016	472
2017	827
2018	598
2019	645
2020	510
2021	457
2022	960
2023	1,177
2024	882
2025	721
2026	954

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Data for records on 2012-08-06: 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 2026-10-13 (13 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).

Margin	Records
0 to 10	571
10 to 20	38
20 to 30	10
30 to 40	9
40 to 50	3
50 to 60	1