Weather Records on 8 February 1946

239 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 February 1946. Highest significance: Putten (Gld), NL.

Key Facts for 8 February 1946

On 8 February 1946, 239 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
56 were record highs and 44 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 28 monthly and 208 daily.
Putten (Gld) set a monthly record daily precipitation of 53.0 mm (2.1 in) on 8 February 1946.
Across 161 earlier years (1798 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 494 records.

Record Map

239 stations

239 station records on 8 February 1946 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 February 1946: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Putten (Gld)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	53.0 mm (2.1 in)	78 of 100 (Major)
Artern	Germany	Record daily precipitation	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Leipzig-Schkeuditz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	40.3 mm (1.6 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Winterswijk	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	57.5 mm (2.3 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Halle	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Braunschweig (T.H.)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Scheveningen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Fichtelberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Arnhem	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Bad Lauchstadt	Germany	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
De Bilt	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	53.9 mm (2.1 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Garsebach Bei Meissen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	50.6 mm (2.0 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Warralong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	210.1 mm (8.3 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Heerde	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	55.7 mm (2.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Denekamp	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Ellesmere	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Pardoo Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	176.5 mm (6.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Mardie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	97.8 mm (3.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Kimberly-de Beers	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Corunna Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	119.4 mm (4.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Noreena Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Satirist	Australia	Record daily precipitation	138.4 mm (5.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Weissenfels	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Sheffield	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Florance	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Hoofddorp	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Helmond	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Mulga Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Aachen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Mayville	United States	Record snow depth	48.3 cm (19.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Coorabulka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Roermond	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Brookings 2 NE	United States	Record snow depth	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Coongan Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	106.4 mm (4.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ethel Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Roy Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ettrick	Australia	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Millstream	Australia	Record daily precipitation	85.6 mm (3.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Indee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mulyie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	93.7 mm (3.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bamboo Springs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Welgelegen(Middlemnt	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kukuiula 935	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
El Dorado Goodwin Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Arhangelsk	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-41.1 C (-42.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Kojnas	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-50.6 C (-59.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Cerro	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Syktyvkar	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-34.5 C (-30.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Holly Bluff	United States	Record daily precipitation	110.5 mm (4.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Kremsmuenster	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	4.2 C (39.6 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Qacu (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Westcliffe	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Bamboo Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Tambrey	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Teriberka	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-23.9 C (-11.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
St. Petersburg	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-22.7 C (-8.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Alexandria	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Edgar	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Praha-Klementinum	Czech Republic	Record high maximum temperature	11.3 C (52.3 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

239 records

Records set or tied on 8 February 1946 by type: Highest daily maximum 16, Lowest daily maximum 20, Highest daily minimum 40, Lowest daily minimum 24, Heaviest daily rainfall 121, Heaviest daily snowfall 14, Deepest snow cover 4.

Records on 8 February 1946 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	16
Lowest daily maximum	20
Highest daily minimum	40
Lowest daily minimum	24
Heaviest daily rainfall	121
Heaviest daily snowfall	14
Deepest snow cover	4

Records on 8 February 1946 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 28, daily 208.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

215 broken records

Margins by which the 215 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 356.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 February 1946

Top 20 records on 8 February 1946 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 February 1946	Putten (Gld), NL	monthly rain	53.0 mm (2.1 in)	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	76 years	78 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Artern, DE	monthly rain	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	11.0 mm (0.4 in)	49 years	69 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Leipzig-Schkeuditz, DE	monthly rain	40.3 mm (1.6 in)	15.9 mm (0.6 in)	45 years	68 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Winterswijk, NL	monthly rain	57.5 mm (2.3 in)	28.5 mm (1.1 in)	42 years	68 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Halle, DE	monthly rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	12.0 mm (0.5 in)	45 years	67 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Braunschweig (T.H.), DE	monthly rain	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	37 years	66 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Scheveningen, NL	daily rain	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	12.6 mm (0.5 in)	62 years	62 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Fichtelberg, DE	daily rain	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	53 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	monthly rain	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	11 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Arnhem, NL	monthly rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	25 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 February 1946	Bad Lauchstadt, DE	monthly rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	15.9 mm (0.6 in)	11 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	De Bilt, NL	monthly rain	53.9 mm (2.1 in)	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	14 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Garsebach Bei Meissen, DE	monthly rain	50.6 mm (2.0 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	11 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Warralong, AU	monthly rain	210.1 mm (8.3 in)	84.4 mm (3.3 in)	8 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Heerde, NL	monthly rain	55.7 mm (2.2 in)	15.9 mm (0.6 in)	0 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Denekamp, NL	monthly rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	0 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Ellesmere, ZA	daily rain	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	45.4 mm (1.8 in)	36 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Pardoo Station, AU	daily rain	176.5 mm (6.9 in)	156.2 mm (6.1 in)	28 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Mardie, AU	daily rain	97.8 mm (3.9 in)	82.1 mm (3.2 in)	28 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
8 February 1946	Kimberly-de Beers, ZA	daily rain	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	40.3 mm (1.6 in)	22 years	51 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 1946

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 1946. 1946 had 239 records.

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

Records on 02-08 in each year
Year	Records
1798	1
1803	2
1822	1
1829	1
1838	1
1840	1
1846	1
1848	1
1854	1
1856	3
1857	2
1858	1
1863	2
1864	1
1865	2
1866	1
1869	4
1873	1
1875	1
1878	1
1881	1
1882	1
1883	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	2
1887	1
1889	3
1890	1
1893	1
1894	4
1895	14
1896	1
1898	1
1899	9
1900	9
1901	5
1902	3
1903	18
1904	8
1905	2
1906	9
1907	16
1908	36
1909	8
1910	16
1911	47
1912	67
1913	22
1914	25
1915	30
1916	16
1917	45
1918	44
1919	39
1920	43
1921	39
1922	60
1923	41
1924	147
1925	685
1926	205
1927	59
1928	263
1929	458
1930	181
1931	398
1932	526
1933	1,064
1934	418
1935	370
1936	717
1937	738
1938	575
1939	315
1940	235
1941	342
1942	224
1943	459
1944	500
1945	530
1946	239
1947	553
1948	417
1949	346
1950	500
1951	811
1952	198
1953	462
1954	1,111
1955	448
1956	584
1957	998
1958	323
1959	274
1960	551
1961	863
1962	448
1963	933
1964	305
1965	793
1966	1,116
1967	539
1968	229
1969	561
1970	342
1971	1,146
1972	348
1973	759
1974	560
1975	346
1976	771
1977	704
1978	1,331
1979	1,355
1980	1,345
1981	736
1982	808
1983	492
1984	630
1985	1,256
1986	819
1987	835
1988	837
1989	2,241
1990	2,042
1991	1,376
1992	833
1993	894
1994	2,056
1995	1,004
1996	1,697
1997	725
1998	1,148
1999	1,633
2000	786
2001	1,743
2002	863
2003	719
2004	692
2005	865
2006	614
2007	657
2008	797
2009	1,217
2010	1,023
2011	883
2012	876
2013	733
2014	1,125
2015	1,344
2016	777
2017	1,648
2018	851
2019	1,386
2020	597
2021	970
2022	273
2023	414
2024	1,347
2025	886
2026	912

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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 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 50	195
50 to 100	13
100 to 150	4
150 to 200	2
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	0
300 to 350	0
350 to 400	1