Weather Records on 7 August 2016

505 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 7 August 2016. Highest significance: Whalen Dam (Usbr), US.

Key Facts for 7 August 2016

On 7 August 2016, 505 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
244 were record highs and 99 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 9 monthly and 495 daily.
Whalen Dam (Usbr) set a monthly record daily precipitation of 51.8 mm (2.0 in) on 7 August 2016.
Across 163 earlier years (1808 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 470 records.

Record Map

505 stations

505 station records on 7 August 2016 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 7 August 2016: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Whalen Dam (Usbr)	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Townsend 3SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Inverness 3 SE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Leo	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Dumas	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Searcy	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Leroy 5 WSW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Savusavu Airfield	Fiji	Record daily precipitation	82.4 mm (3.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Habarovsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Horse Ridge	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Manati 2 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Tot-Ma	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.5 C (65.3 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Chon Buri	Thailand	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Wichita	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Sura	Russia	Record daily precipitation	36.4 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Holyoke	United States	Record low maximum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Julesburg	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Madrid	United States	Record low maximum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Wray	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Alliance 1WNW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Chapman	United States	Record low maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Gordon 6N	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Double Island Point Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Alexander	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lodgepole	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Little Rock	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Des Arc	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Atwood	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Francis	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Chadron 3SW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Crescent Lake Nwr	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Seaqaqa	Fiji	Record daily precipitation	76.5 mm (3.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Tribune 1W	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ewing	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
McCracken	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Sterling	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Little Rock AP Adams Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.7 mm (2.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bradford	United Kingdom	Record high minimum temperature	16.2 C (61.2 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Covert	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kingman	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kingston Springs	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Nabouwalu	Fiji	Record daily precipitation	98.2 mm (3.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ellis	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
D'Lo 2 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Chester 1 SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Falfurrias	United States	Record high minimum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cordova N	United States	Record daily precipitation	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Abeche	Chad	Record low minimum temperature	16.3 C (61.3 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Campo 7 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kimball 2NE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Oshkosh	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Pine Bluff Grider Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kargopol	Russia	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kinlochewe	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Cross City 1 E	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hamar-Daban	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	16.5 C (61.7 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Elabuga	Russia	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Ness City	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

505 records

Records set or tied on 7 August 2016 by type: Highest daily maximum 40, Lowest daily maximum 79, Highest daily minimum 204, Lowest daily minimum 20, Heaviest daily rainfall 162.

Records on 7 August 2016 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	40
Lowest daily maximum	79
Highest daily minimum	204
Lowest daily minimum	20
Heaviest daily rainfall	162
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 7 August 2016 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 9, daily 495.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

359 broken records

Margins by which the 359 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 52.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

7 August 2016

Top 20 records on 7 August 2016 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
7 August 2016	Whalen Dam (Usbr), US	monthly rain	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	26 years	61 of 100 (Major)
7 August 2016	Townsend 3SE, US	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	42 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Inverness 3 SE, US	daily low max	26.1 C (79.0 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	101 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Saint Leo, US	daily low max	26.7 C (80.1 F)	2.7 C (4.9 F)	111 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Dumas, US	daily rain	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	71 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Searcy, US	daily rain	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	95 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Leroy 5 WSW, US	daily low max	17.8 C (64.0 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	112 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Savusavu Airfield, FJ	daily rain	82.4 mm (3.2 in)	48.1 mm (1.9 in)	17 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Habarovsk, RU	daily rain	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	12 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Horse Ridge, US	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	8 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Sarajevo, BA	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	4.6 mm (0.18 in)	99 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Manati 2 E, PR	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	100 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Tot-Ma, RU	daily high min	18.5 C (65.3 F)	1.9 C (3.4 F)	116 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Chon Buri, TH	daily rain	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	61 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Wichita, US	daily rain	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	52 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Sura, RU	daily rain	36.4 mm (1.4 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	5 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Oxford, GB	daily high min	18.3 C (64.9 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	156 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Holyoke, US	daily low max	18.9 C (66.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	112 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Julesburg, US	daily low max	20.6 C (69.1 F)	2.7 C (4.9 F)	93 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 2016	Madrid, US	daily low max	22.2 C (72.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	104 years	43 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

1808 to 2016

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1808 to 2016. 2016 had 505 records.

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

Records on 08-07 in each year
Year	Records
1808	1
1812	1
1815	1
1816	1
1817	1
1833	2
1844	1
1845	1
1848	1
1857	3
1858	1
1859	2
1861	1
1866	1
1868	1
1869	3
1870	2
1875	1
1876	5
1879	1
1880	2
1882	1
1883	1
1884	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	5
1889	2
1891	3
1892	3
1893	1
1894	1
1895	7
1896	2
1897	2
1898	4
1899	1
1900	6
1901	3
1902	5
1903	17
1904	8
1905	8
1906	9
1907	10
1908	13
1909	11
1910	1
1911	36
1912	31
1913	39
1914	24
1915	40
1916	50
1917	21
1918	108
1919	36
1920	36
1921	55
1922	61
1923	101
1924	128
1925	81
1926	115
1927	109
1928	188
1929	181
1930	486
1931	357
1932	249
1933	310
1934	608
1935	507
1936	286
1937	446
1938	568
1939	561
1940	271
1941	305
1942	340
1943	601
1944	332
1945	882
1946	500
1947	461
1948	756
1949	587
1950	541
1951	562
1952	556
1953	378
1954	589
1955	536
1956	321
1957	868
1958	571
1959	356
1960	344
1961	356
1962	718
1963	522
1964	446
1965	552
1966	400
1967	701
1968	600
1969	523
1970	652
1971	969
1972	1,172
1973	568
1974	746
1975	1,177
1976	1,168
1977	617
1978	1,210
1979	559
1980	871
1981	855
1982	727
1983	1,207
1984	840
1985	1,088
1986	544
1987	1,146
1988	897
1989	1,472
1990	1,625
1991	1,217
1992	1,236
1993	1,040
1994	1,262
1995	1,521
1996	1,107
1997	1,460
1998	1,183
1999	950
2000	871
2001	1,386
2002	907
2003	1,244
2004	1,400
2005	882
2006	923
2007	1,309
2008	918
2009	1,121
2010	1,098
2011	1,282
2012	688
2013	665
2014	501
2015	1,027
2016	505
2017	954
2018	636
2019	609
2020	605
2021	397
2022	880
2023	1,221
2024	835
2025	733
2026	1,045

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Data for records on 2016-08-07: 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 2026-10-14 (14 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-13. Last revised 13 October 2026 (2026-10-13).

Histogram of margins by which records were beaten on 7 August 2016
Margin	Records
0 to 10	309
10 to 20	24
20 to 30	17
30 to 40	5
40 to 50	2
50 to 60	2