Weather Records on 10 August 2015

583 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 10 August 2015. Highest significance: Bunker 4N, US.

Key Facts for 10 August 2015

On 10 August 2015, 583 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
443 were record highs and 42 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 5 were all-time records, 18 monthly and 560 daily.
Bunker 4N set a daily record precipitation of 114.3 mm (4.5 in) on 10 August 2015.
Across 160 earlier years (1814 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 468 records.

Record Map

583 stations

583 station records on 10 August 2015 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 10 August 2015: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bunker 4N	United States	Record daily precipitation	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Bremen-Seefahrtschule	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.2 mm (1.3 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
De Soto	United States	Record daily precipitation	97.0 mm (3.8 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Melle	Germany	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Houston	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Potosi 4 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	98.0 mm (3.9 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Gulkana AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bad Rothenfelde	Germany	Record daily precipitation	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Rolla Missouri S&T	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Salem	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Licking 4N	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Lesukonskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Keiser	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Lichtentanne	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	36.0 C (96.8 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ash Grove 4S	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Dongtai	China	Record daily precipitation	321.1 mm (12.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Regensburg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	19.2 C (66.6 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Fichtelberg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	26.5 C (79.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Nurnberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	19.8 C (67.6 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Plauen	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	35.5 C (95.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Olekminsk	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	17.6 C (63.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Visby_Flygplats	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	8.4 C (47.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Collins	United States	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.1 C (106.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
San Carlos Rsvr	United States	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Billings 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Plainview	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Lafayette Rgnl AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Culman	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	33.1 C (91.6 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Chiang Rai	Thailand	Record high minimum temperature	25.9 C (78.6 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kokomo 5 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Pecos Nm	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kjahta	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.8 C (65.8 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Aldan	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	33.7 C (92.7 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kanku	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	29.1 C (84.4 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Jena Sternwarte	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	34.9 C (94.8 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kiev	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	34.7 C (94.5 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Sikeston Pwr STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Pueblo Mem AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Worpswede-Huttenbusch	Germany	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kota Aerodrome	India	Record daily precipitation	106.9 mm (4.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ostrov Vize	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	6.4 C (43.5 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Hagerstown 1E	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ikerasassuaq	Greenland [Denmark]	Record high maximum temperature	22.1 C (71.8 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bad-Ahrweiler Neuenahr	Germany	Record daily precipitation	50.6 mm (2.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Ruxton Park	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Tye Rvr 1 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Plauen	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Arequipa	Peru	Record low minimum temperature	0.2 C (32.4 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Romanovka	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	31.5 C (88.7 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Carville 2 SW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Mercedes	Uruguay	Record high maximum temperature	30.0 C (86.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Farmington	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Athens Ben Epps AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Tamaru	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Kharga	Egypt	Record high minimum temperature	34.6 C (94.3 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Elizabethton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Siwa	Egypt	Record high minimum temperature	29.1 C (84.4 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Dresden-Strehlen	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	36.9 C (98.4 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

583 records

Records set or tied on 10 August 2015 by type: Highest daily maximum 196, Lowest daily maximum 21, Highest daily minimum 247, Lowest daily minimum 21, Heaviest daily rainfall 98.

Records on 10 August 2015 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	196
Lowest daily maximum	21
Highest daily minimum	247
Lowest daily minimum	21
Heaviest daily rainfall	98
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 10 August 2015 by timescale: all-time 5, monthly 18, daily 560.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

471 broken records

Margins by which the 471 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 71.7. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

10 August 2015

Top 20 records on 10 August 2015 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
10 August 2015	Bunker 4N, US	daily rain	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	74 years	71 of 100 (Major)
10 August 2015	Bremen-Seefahrtschule, DE	daily rain	34.2 mm (1.3 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	114 years	68 of 100 (Major)
10 August 2015	De Soto, US	daily rain	97.0 mm (3.8 in)	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	41 years	62 of 100 (Major)
10 August 2015	Melle, DE	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	54 years	61 of 100 (Major)
10 August 2015	Houston, US	daily rain	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	17.6 mm (0.7 in)	100 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Potosi 4 SW, US	daily rain	98.0 mm (3.9 in)	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	28 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Gulkana AP, US	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	11.1 mm (0.4 in)	53 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Bad Rothenfelde, DE	daily rain	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	12 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Rolla Missouri S&T, US	daily rain	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	100 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Salem, US	daily rain	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	58 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Licking 4N, US	daily rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	58 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Lesukonskoe, RU	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	1 year	45 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Keiser, US	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	46 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Lichtentanne, DE	daily high max	36.0 C (96.8 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	146 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Ash Grove 4S, US	daily rain	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	71.7 mm (2.8 in)	1 year	43 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Dongtai, CN	all-time rain	321.1 mm (12.6 in)	6.8 mm (0.27 in)	49 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Regensburg, DE	daily high min	19.2 C (66.6 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	109 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Fichtelberg, DE	daily high max	26.5 C (79.7 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	92 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Nurnberg, DE	daily high min	19.8 C (67.6 F)	1.2 C (2.2 F)	89 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
10 August 2015	Plauen, DE	daily high max	35.5 C (95.9 F)	2.0 C (3.6 F)	89 years	40 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

1814 to 2015

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1814 to 2015. 2015 had 583 records.

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

Records on 08-10 in each year
Year	Records
1814	1
1815	1
1838	1
1845	2
1847	1
1849	1
1852	1
1853	1
1857	2
1859	1
1861	2
1862	2
1863	1
1864	1
1869	2
1871	1
1877	1
1879	4
1881	2
1884	2
1885	1
1886	1
1887	1
1888	1
1890	2
1891	6
1892	1
1893	1
1894	5
1895	1
1896	5
1897	7
1898	4
1899	6
1900	6
1901	5
1902	7
1903	8
1904	12
1905	5
1906	16
1907	9
1908	7
1909	33
1910	10
1911	40
1912	39
1913	44
1914	27
1915	26
1916	88
1917	51
1918	43
1919	51
1920	101
1921	66
1922	78
1923	175
1924	245
1925	430
1926	80
1927	294
1928	160
1929	264
1930	299
1931	424
1932	251
1933	305
1934	662
1935	480
1936	487
1937	399
1938	382
1939	593
1940	386
1941	459
1942	420
1943	304
1944	1,006
1945	360
1946	303
1947	766
1948	339
1949	586
1950	324
1951	425
1952	395
1953	431
1954	372
1955	309
1956	522
1957	322
1958	443
1959	528
1960	470
1961	640
1962	761
1963	479
1964	553
1965	700
1966	1,231
1967	766
1968	784
1969	588
1970	702
1971	760
1972	1,175
1973	597
1974	719
1975	664
1976	855
1977	786
1978	495
1979	700
1980	849
1981	857
1982	1,070
1983	915
1984	956
1985	918
1986	535
1987	896
1988	792
1989	1,291
1990	736
1991	819
1992	1,051
1993	774
1994	1,338
1995	1,119
1996	1,027
1997	1,504
1998	1,112
1999	945
2000	990
2001	1,192
2002	1,080
2003	1,556
2004	976
2005	1,225
2006	980
2007	1,476
2008	871
2009	869
2010	1,704
2011	1,247
2012	995
2013	599
2014	516
2015	583
2016	893
2017	636
2018	1,018
2019	754
2020	816
2021	553
2022	687
2023	782
2024	882
2025	659
2026	1,149

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Data for records on 2015-08-10: 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	431
10 to 20	22
20 to 30	7
30 to 40	6
40 to 50	1
50 to 60	1
60 to 70	1
70 to 80	2