Weather Records on 6 August 2013

722 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 6 August 2013. Highest significance: Irishtown, AU.

Key Facts for 6 August 2013

On 6 August 2013, 722 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
335 were record highs and 141 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 9 monthly and 709 daily.
Irishtown set a daily record precipitation of 50.2 mm (2.0 in) on 6 August 2013.
Across 165 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 445 records.

Record Map

722 stations

722 station records on 6 August 2013 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 6 August 2013: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Irishtown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
Postmyr I Drangedal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Notodden	Norway	Record daily precipitation	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Kojonup	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Meander	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.6 mm (2.3 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Mammoth Spring	United States	Record daily precipitation	122.2 mm (4.8 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Ross (Rose Villa)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Licking 4N	United States	Record daily precipitation	162.6 mm (6.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Nizhnyj Tagil	Russia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Wynyard Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Launceston (Kings Meadows)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.8 mm (1.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Deddington (Marathon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Natural Brg	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Howells	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Redpa (Greenes Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Marienberg-Reitzenhain	Germany	Record daily precipitation	74.4 mm (2.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Donnybrook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.4 mm (2.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Yolla (Sea View)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Alton	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Hechingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bergeligrend	Norway	Record daily precipitation	41.8 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
El Dorado	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Hesston	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Northam	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	13.1 C (55.6 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Launceston Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Berlin-Dahlem	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Malexander	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	38.2 mm (1.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Hardy	United States	Record low maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Fayette	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
O'Neill	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Beaconsfield (Mine & Heritage	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.8 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Westbury (Valley View)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Poatina (Billopp)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Berge	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.6 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Clemson UNIV	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hampshire (Neena Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.0 mm (2.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ulverstone (Knights Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kremsmuenster	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	20.5 C (68.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Topaz Lake	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Altona (City Offices)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
South Forest (Plummers Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Weetah (Weetah Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Brocken	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Schluchtern-Herolz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	29.6 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Sierraville Rs	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-3.3 C (26.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gove 4W	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mtn Grove 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Albemarle	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Juterbog	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Fernandina Beach	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Rapid City 4NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Connorville (Lake River)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Western Creek (Somer Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.2 mm (2.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Selb/Oberfranken-Lauterbach	Germany	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Greensburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.5 mm (3.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Wood	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Zehdenick	Germany	Record daily precipitation	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Clermont-Ferrand	France	Record daily precipitation	53.0 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Utsira Fyr	Norway	Record daily precipitation	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Orenburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

722 records

Records set or tied on 6 August 2013 by type: Highest daily maximum 169, Lowest daily maximum 105, Highest daily minimum 166, Lowest daily minimum 36, Heaviest daily rainfall 246.

Records on 6 August 2013 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	169
Lowest daily maximum	105
Highest daily minimum	166
Lowest daily minimum	36
Heaviest daily rainfall	246
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 6 August 2013 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 9, daily 709.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

585 broken records

Margins by which the 585 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 71.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

6 August 2013

Top 20 records on 6 August 2013 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
6 August 2013	Irishtown, AU	daily rain	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	100 years	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
6 August 2013	Postmyr I Drangedal, NO	daily rain	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	92 years	72 of 100 (Major)
6 August 2013	Notodden, NO	all-time rain	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	18.9 mm (0.7 in)	55 years	66 of 100 (Major)
6 August 2013	Kojonup, AU	daily rain	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	106 years	60 of 100 (Major)
6 August 2013	Meander, AU	daily rain	58.6 mm (2.3 in)	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	82 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Mammoth Spring, US	daily rain	122.2 mm (4.8 in)	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	20 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Ross (Rose Villa), AU	daily rain	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	36 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Licking 4N, US	all-time rain	162.6 mm (6.4 in)	11.5 mm (0.5 in)	66 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Nizhnyj Tagil, RU	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	42 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Wynyard Airport, AU	daily rain	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	54 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Launceston (Kings Meadows), AU	daily rain	25.8 mm (1.0 in)	14.1 mm (0.6 in)	74 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Deddington (Marathon), AU	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	74 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Natural Brg, US	daily low max	21.1 C (70.0 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	95 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Howells, US	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	40.7 mm (1.6 in)	64 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Redpa (Greenes Road), AU	daily rain	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	54 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Marienberg-Reitzenhain, DE	daily rain	74.4 mm (2.9 in)	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	7 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Donnybrook, AU	daily rain	51.4 mm (2.0 in)	8.5 mm (0.33 in)	95 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Yolla (Sea View), AU	daily rain	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	100 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Alton, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	52 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
6 August 2013	Hechingen, DE	daily rain	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	25.8 mm (1.0 in)	18 years	45 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 2013

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 2013. 2013 had 722 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	955

Download the Data

Data for records on 2013-08-06: 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 2026-10-17 (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 10	496
10 to 20	63
20 to 30	17
30 to 40	5
40 to 50	3
50 to 60	0
60 to 70	0
70 to 80	1