Weather Records on 16 July 2015

605 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 July 2015. Highest significance: Clarinda, US.

Key Facts for 16 July 2015

On 16 July 2015, 605 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
250 were record highs and 180 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 8 were all-time records, 14 monthly and 583 daily.
Clarinda set a daily record precipitation of 133.9 mm (5.3 in) on 16 July 2015.
Across 162 earlier years (1798 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 439 records.

Record Map

605 stations

605 station records on 16 July 2015 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 July 2015: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Clarinda	United States	Record daily precipitation	133.9 mm (5.3 in)	79 of 100 (Major)
Washta	United States	Record daily precipitation	107.4 mm (4.2 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Bedford	United States	Record daily precipitation	107.2 mm (4.2 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Rothamsted	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Daltonganj	India	Record daily precipitation	294.9 mm (11.6 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Monmouth	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Sunshine 3NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Chichibu	Japan	Record daily precipitation	164.1 mm (6.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Nikko	Japan	Record daily precipitation	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Maryville 2E	United States	Record daily precipitation	182.9 mm (7.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Kawaguchiko	Japan	Record daily precipitation	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Indus 3 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Big Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	Record high minimum temperature	31.0 C (87.8 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Poytya Ylane	Finland	Record daily precipitation	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Vasterhaninge	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	55.5 mm (2.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Balmoral	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	30.6 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Bodalla Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
San Carlos Rsvr	United States	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Kirsanov	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Ronaldsway	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	34.1 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Madison	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Naryn	Kyrgyzstan	Record high minimum temperature	17.3 C (63.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Sagen	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Sidney 1SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.3 mm (3.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Allerton	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Shenandoah	United States	Record daily precipitation	117.9 mm (4.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Storm Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Bethany	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Nebraska City 2NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Dodge 5NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Nurata	Uzbekistan	Record high minimum temperature	29.8 C (85.6 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Conception	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Alfred	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Sodus 1W	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Circleville	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Chardzhev	Turkmenistan	Record high minimum temperature	30.2 C (86.4 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Harbor Beach 1 SSE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Petersburg 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Lieto Tammentaka	Finland	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Lyon - St Exupery	France	Record high maximum temperature	37.4 C (99.3 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Mishima	Japan	Record daily precipitation	106.9 mm (4.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Olovjannaja	Russia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Faskally	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Donnellson	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Stanley 3 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Pleasant	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bajramaly	Turkmenistan	Record high minimum temperature	30.8 C (87.4 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Colquitt 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record high maximum temperature	34.7 C (94.5 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Barth	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	6.8 C (44.2 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Stormyra	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Chiang Rai	Thailand	Record daily precipitation	92.2 mm (3.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Dearborn	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Huailai	China	Record low maximum temperature	19.3 C (66.7 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Benmore: Younger Botanic Garde	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Randolph	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Addison	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Koylio Yttila	Finland	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

605 records

Records set or tied on 16 July 2015 by type: Highest daily maximum 111, Lowest daily maximum 101, Highest daily minimum 139, Lowest daily minimum 79, Heaviest daily rainfall 175.

Records on 16 July 2015 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	111
Lowest daily maximum	101
Highest daily minimum	139
Lowest daily minimum	79
Heaviest daily rainfall	175
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 16 July 2015 by timescale: all-time 8, monthly 14, daily 583.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

477 broken records

Margins by which the 477 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 126.3. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 July 2015

Top 20 records on 16 July 2015 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 July 2015	Clarinda, US	daily rain	133.9 mm (5.3 in)	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	114 years	79 of 100 (Major)
16 July 2015	Washta, US	daily rain	107.4 mm (4.2 in)	88.3 mm (3.5 in)	88 years	76 of 100 (Major)
16 July 2015	Bedford, US	daily rain	107.2 mm (4.2 in)	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	114 years	70 of 100 (Major)
16 July 2015	Rothamsted, GB	daily rain	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	46 years	64 of 100 (Major)
16 July 2015	Daltonganj, IN	all-time rain	294.9 mm (11.6 in)	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	94 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Monmouth, US	daily rain	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	24 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Sunshine 3NE, US	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	46 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Chichibu, JP	daily rain	164.1 mm (6.5 in)	118.1 mm (4.6 in)	25 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Nikko, JP	daily rain	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	24 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Maryville 2E, US	daily rain	182.9 mm (7.2 in)	126.3 mm (5.0 in)	10 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Kawaguchiko, JP	daily rain	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	89.1 mm (3.5 in)	22 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Indus 3 W, US	daily rain	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	46 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Big Falls, US	daily rain	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	46 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Ashgabat, TM	all-time high min	31.0 C (87.8 F)	0.1 C (0.2 F)	74 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Poytya Ylane, FI	daily rain	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	14 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Vasterhaninge, SE	monthly rain	55.5 mm (2.2 in)	8.5 mm (0.33 in)	69 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Balmoral, GB	daily rain	30.6 mm (1.2 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	26 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Bodalla Post Office, AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	92 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	San Carlos Rsvr, US	daily low min	11.7 C (53.1 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	109 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
16 July 2015	Kirsanov, RU	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	21.9 mm (0.9 in)	56 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

1798 to 2015

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 2015. 2015 had 605 records.

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

Records on 07-16 in each year
Year	Records
1798	1
1801	1
1802	1
1808	1
1819	1
1829	1
1832	1
1833	1
1840	2
1845	1
1852	2
1862	1
1863	1
1865	3
1866	1
1868	2
1870	1
1871	1
1875	2
1876	2
1878	1
1879	2
1880	1
1881	2
1883	4
1886	1
1887	2
1888	2
1890	5
1891	2
1892	5
1894	6
1896	1
1897	2
1898	2
1899	2
1900	5
1901	9
1902	2
1903	18
1904	20
1905	4
1906	23
1907	7
1908	21
1909	17
1910	9
1911	24
1912	28
1913	23
1914	53
1915	41
1916	39
1917	90
1918	18
1919	56
1920	46
1921	66
1922	303
1923	180
1924	75
1925	179
1926	295
1927	170
1928	405
1929	192
1930	402
1931	527
1932	446
1933	224
1934	432
1935	284
1936	715
1937	307
1938	213
1939	599
1940	255
1941	363
1942	321
1943	297
1944	193
1945	702
1946	454
1947	568
1948	259
1949	417
1950	542
1951	537
1952	560
1953	366
1954	592
1955	548
1956	417
1957	221
1958	1,270
1959	341
1960	329
1961	402
1962	538
1963	251
1964	341
1965	437
1966	415
1967	1,067
1968	788
1969	702
1970	674
1971	766
1972	641
1973	880
1974	666
1975	742
1976	840
1977	829
1978	1,095
1979	543
1980	1,457
1981	569
1982	985
1983	1,362
1984	937
1985	528
1986	845
1987	916
1988	1,306
1989	1,074
1990	955
1991	627
1992	943
1993	1,053
1994	730
1995	929
1996	739
1997	707
1998	1,051
1999	998
2000	1,207
2001	1,073
2002	1,029
2003	1,492
2004	724
2005	1,023
2006	1,527
2007	1,186
2008	669
2009	839
2010	927
2011	1,221
2012	829
2013	853
2014	1,448
2015	605
2016	706
2017	419
2018	694
2019	476
2020	464
2021	661
2022	538
2023	1,150
2024	938
2025	764
2026	727

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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	447
20 to 40	17
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	1
120 to 140	1