Weather Records on 8 April 1964

814 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 April 1964. Highest significance: Meadows, AU.

Key Facts for 8 April 1964

On 8 April 1964, 814 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
80 were record highs and 85 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 14 monthly and 799 daily.
Meadows set a daily record precipitation of 64.3 mm (2.5 in) on 8 April 1964.
Across 157 earlier years (1798 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 501 records.

Record Map

814 stations

814 station records on 8 April 1964 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 April 1964: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Meadows	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Yates Hydro Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Brinkworth	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Burra (Kooringa)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Lochiel Saltworks	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Goolwa Council Depot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Victor Harbor (Rivington Grang	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Harrogate	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Kanmantoo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Strathalbyn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Gainesville	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Caio Prado	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Macclesfield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Nairne	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Port Wakefield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Snowtown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Finniss	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Meredith (Darra)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Salisbury	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Sloan 3 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.3 mm (2.7 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Bryan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Milang	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Melton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Rockbank	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Georgetown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Echunga Golf Course	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Plains (Metala)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Talbotton	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.9 mm (4.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Spalding (Bundaleer Reservoir)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Clare Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Narrung (Yalkuri)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Brinkworth (Bungaree)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Port Clinton (Yararoo)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Mindarie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Boga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Farrell Flat	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Barker	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Macon	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.9 mm (3.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Milledgeville	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ashbourne	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Calivil	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Palmer	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Barwon Heads (Jirrahlinga)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Uniao	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Carpa	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Snowtown (Condowie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Crystal Brook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Koolunga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Yacka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Victor Harbor Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Shelford	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Loxton (Pyap)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ballan (Fiskville)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sape	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Vicosa	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	181.2 mm (7.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Beazleys Bridge	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Meredith (Wattle Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Gladstone	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Narridy Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Mintaro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

814 records

Records set or tied on 8 April 1964 by type: Highest daily maximum 10, Lowest daily maximum 20, Highest daily minimum 70, Lowest daily minimum 65, Heaviest daily rainfall 617, Heaviest daily snowfall 24, Deepest snow cover 8.

Records on 8 April 1964 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	10
Lowest daily maximum	20
Highest daily minimum	70
Lowest daily minimum	65
Heaviest daily rainfall	617
Heaviest daily snowfall	24
Deepest snow cover	8

Records on 8 April 1964 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 14, daily 799.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

731 broken records

Margins by which the 731 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 76.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 April 1964

Top 20 records on 8 April 1964 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 April 1964	Meadows, AU	daily rain	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	53.9 mm (2.1 in)	67 years	67 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1964	Yates Hydro Plt, US	daily rain	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	62 years	65 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1964	Brinkworth, AU	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	54 years	62 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1964	Burra (Kooringa), AU	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	73 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1964	Lochiel Saltworks, AU	monthly rain	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	39 years	61 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1964	Goolwa Council Depot, AU	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	67 years	60 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1964	Victor Harbor (Rivington Grang, AU	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	52 years	60 of 100 (Major)
8 April 1964	Harrogate, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	59 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Kanmantoo, AU	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	74 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Strathalbyn, AU	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	28 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Gainesville, US	daily rain	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	50 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Caio Prado, BR	daily rain	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	70.8 mm (2.8 in)	42 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Macclesfield, AU	daily rain	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	28 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Nairne, AU	daily rain	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	28 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Port Wakefield, AU	daily rain	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	20 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Snowtown, AU	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	20 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Finniss, AU	daily rain	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	28 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Meredith (Darra), AU	daily rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	29 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Salisbury, US	daily rain	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	41 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
8 April 1964	Sloan 3 S, US	daily rain	69.3 mm (2.7 in)	33.7 mm (1.3 in)	68 years	53 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 1964

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 1964. 1964 had 814 records.

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

Records on 04-08 in each year
Year	Records
1798	1
1809	3
1815	1
1830	1
1837	1
1838	1
1843	1
1847	1
1848	1
1854	1
1859	1
1860	1
1864	5
1865	1
1866	1
1871	3
1877	1
1879	1
1881	1
1883	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	3
1889	4
1890	2
1894	3
1895	3
1896	2
1897	2
1898	3
1899	3
1900	7
1901	6
1902	9
1903	9
1904	7
1905	20
1906	4
1907	20
1908	18
1909	16
1910	20
1911	17
1912	84
1913	8
1914	42
1915	69
1916	100
1917	42
1918	43
1919	82
1920	90
1921	440
1922	117
1923	109
1924	194
1925	184
1926	164
1927	160
1928	450
1929	614
1930	261
1931	447
1932	105
1933	158
1934	190
1935	523
1936	662
1937	129
1938	813
1939	707
1940	254
1941	235
1942	359
1943	534
1944	283
1945	669
1946	337
1947	263
1948	569
1949	206
1950	932
1951	244
1952	562
1953	519
1954	322
1955	306
1956	621
1957	397
1958	360
1959	421
1960	366
1961	623
1962	470
1963	566
1964	814
1965	473
1966	315
1967	568
1968	499
1969	765
1970	399
1971	798
1972	1,636
1973	1,104
1974	559
1975	1,410
1976	383
1977	1,469
1978	822
1979	446
1980	755
1981	736
1982	2,690
1983	1,321
1984	1,041
1985	826
1986	901
1987	783
1988	1,224
1989	1,360
1990	907
1991	1,886
1992	534
1993	706
1994	678
1995	812
1996	1,289
1997	2,009
1998	1,101
1999	1,221
2000	817
2001	1,865
2002	761
2003	1,918
2004	676
2005	976
2006	680
2007	2,681
2008	896
2009	1,027
2010	1,128
2011	1,197
2012	407
2013	711
2014	715
2015	825
2016	924
2017	584
2018	1,745
2019	826
2020	916
2021	742
2022	930
2023	585
2024	1,256
2025	484
2026	407

Download the Data

Data for records on 1964-04-08: 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 2026-10-17 (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	478
10 to 20	166
20 to 30	52
30 to 40	14
40 to 50	7
50 to 60	9
60 to 70	0
70 to 80	5