Weather Records on 8 September 2016

951 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 September 2016. Highest significance: Yatchaw (Amaroo), AU.

Key Facts for 8 September 2016

On 8 September 2016, 951 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
758 were record highs and 39 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 49 monthly and 902 daily.
Yatchaw (Amaroo) set a monthly record daily precipitation of 55.5 mm (2.2 in) on 8 September 2016.
Across 170 earlier years (1802 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 440 records.

Record Map

951 stations

951 station records on 8 September 2016 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 September 2016: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Yatchaw (Amaroo)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.5 mm (2.2 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Mahinahina 466	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Cockburn (Tepco)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Havana	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Longzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	110.2 mm (4.3 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Utsunomiya	Japan	Record daily precipitation	130.6 mm (5.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Hart 3 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Howard 2SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	107.2 mm (4.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Oswego	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Happy Valley Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Gambier Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Willcox	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Newton	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Walker	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Cockburn (Burta)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Bosque del Apache	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Rockville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Montague 4 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Gatum	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Prachuap Khiri Khan	Thailand	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Rothsay	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Fairfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Prilep	Macedonia	Record daily precipitation	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Natural Brg	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Fremont	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Yanac North	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Big Rapids Wtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Brainerd	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Harrisville Sp	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Bugt	China	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Wapello	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Solomons	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Chita	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	13.6 C (56.5 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Durham	United Kingdom	Record high minimum temperature	16.2 C (61.2 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Brinkley	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Illinois City Dam 16	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Logansport Cicott St	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Le Claire L&D 14	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Vanderbilt 11ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Leech Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Schwerin	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Larissa	Greece	Record daily precipitation	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Guayama 1SW	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Macomb	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Allerton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Allerton	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Keosauqua	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Osceola	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Sedan	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Detroit Lakes 1 NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lamar 7N	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Norman 3SSE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Tyler Pounds Fld	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello Muni AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Regensburg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	29.9 C (85.8 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Dikson	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	15.4 C (59.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Nerchinskij Zavod	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gladstone L/D 18	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
New Boston Dam 17	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Columbus	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

951 records

Records set or tied on 8 September 2016 by type: Highest daily maximum 233, Lowest daily maximum 19, Highest daily minimum 525, Lowest daily minimum 20, Heaviest daily rainfall 154.

Records on 8 September 2016 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	233
Lowest daily maximum	19
Highest daily minimum	525
Lowest daily minimum	20
Heaviest daily rainfall	154
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 8 September 2016 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 49, daily 902.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

714 broken records

Margins by which the 714 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 98.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 September 2016

Top 20 records on 8 September 2016 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 September 2016	Yatchaw (Amaroo), AU	monthly rain	55.5 mm (2.2 in)	6.0 mm (0.24 in)	108 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 September 2016	Mahinahina 466, US	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	84 years	60 of 100 (Major)
8 September 2016	Cockburn (Tepco), AU	daily rain	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	20.5 mm (0.8 in)	56 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Havana, US	daily rain	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	89 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Longzhou, CN	daily rain	110.2 mm (4.3 in)	77.9 mm (3.1 in)	34 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Utsunomiya, JP	daily rain	130.6 mm (5.1 in)	98.6 mm (3.9 in)	34 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Hart 3 WSW, US	daily rain	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	74 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Howard 2SE, US	daily rain	107.2 mm (4.2 in)	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	75 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Oswego, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	82 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Happy Valley Reservoir, AU	daily rain	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	9.0 mm (0.35 in)	95 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Mount Gambier Post Office, AU	daily rain	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	15 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Willcox, US	daily low max	19.4 C (66.9 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	97 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Newton, US	daily rain	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	109 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Walker, US	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	63 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Cockburn (Burta), AU	daily rain	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	18.7 mm (0.7 in)	56 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Bosque del Apache, US	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	51 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Rockville, US	monthly high min	24.4 C (75.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	120 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Montague 4 NW, US	daily rain	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	56.2 mm (2.2 in)	1 year	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Gatum, AU	daily rain	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	16 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 September 2016	Prachuap Khiri Khan, TH	daily rain	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	8 years	48 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

1802 to 2016

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1802 to 2016. 2016 had 951 records.

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

Records on 09-08 in each year
Year	Records
1802	1
1806	1
1813	1
1814	2
1815	2
1833	1
1837	1
1845	2
1847	2
1848	1
1850	2
1851	1
1854	1
1855	3
1857	1
1860	3
1864	1
1865	2
1866	1
1867	1
1868	1
1869	1
1870	1
1871	2
1872	2
1873	1
1877	1
1878	2
1879	4
1881	3
1883	2
1885	2
1886	1
1887	1
1888	1
1890	2
1891	1
1893	3
1894	9
1895	6
1896	2
1897	3
1898	5
1899	3
1900	4
1901	6
1902	3
1903	13
1904	4
1905	10
1906	14
1907	7
1908	4
1909	7
1910	9
1911	20
1912	62
1913	19
1914	37
1915	32
1916	25
1917	166
1918	31
1919	240
1920	59
1921	299
1922	206
1923	116
1924	138
1925	232
1926	141
1927	177
1928	93
1929	397
1930	156
1931	480
1932	465
1933	728
1934	407
1935	353
1936	535
1937	222
1938	397
1939	547
1940	297
1941	477
1942	375
1943	488
1944	769
1945	423
1946	325
1947	586
1948	340
1949	765
1950	570
1951	389
1952	382
1953	324
1954	309
1955	481
1956	717
1957	427
1958	480
1959	667
1960	678
1961	351
1962	682
1963	378
1964	294
1965	472
1966	351
1967	380
1968	308
1969	556
1970	582
1971	704
1972	523
1973	873
1974	626
1975	564
1976	639
1977	726
1978	1,165
1979	813
1980	739
1981	854
1982	605
1983	1,154
1984	1,123
1985	1,492
1986	1,203
1987	880
1988	856
1989	648
1990	747
1991	806
1992	869
1993	783
1994	704
1995	1,324
1996	609
1997	892
1998	1,331
1999	1,196
2000	981
2001	1,643
2002	1,238
2003	819
2004	1,576
2005	1,015
2006	850
2007	1,112
2008	878
2009	832
2010	1,143
2011	1,554
2012	813
2013	831
2014	515
2015	728
2016	951
2017	978
2018	724
2019	903
2020	1,952
2021	1,080
2022	1,567
2023	1,242
2024	1,336
2025	707
2026	699

Download the Data

Data for records on 2016-09-08: 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 2026-10-16 (16 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	676
20 to 40	30
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	2
80 to 100	1