Weather Records on 6 April 1998

860 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 6 April 1998. Highest significance: Ellis, US.

Key Facts for 6 April 1998

On 6 April 1998, 860 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
527 were record highs and 140 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 10 were all-time records, 40 monthly and 810 daily.
Ellis set a daily record precipitation of 61.7 mm (2.4 in) on 6 April 1998.
Across 156 earlier years (1808 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 484 records.

Record Map

860 stations

860 station records on 6 April 1998 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 6 April 1998: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Ellis	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Darby	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
McCracken	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Eads	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Fairmont	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Weeping Water	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Meade	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Alexander	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Hebron	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Ayutla (Cfe)	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Higgins	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
McGill	United States	Record daily snowfall	16.5 cm (6.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
McGill	United States	Record snow depth	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Hanzhong	China	Record daily precipitation	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Izmail	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	11.9 C (53.4 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	Record high minimum temperature	27.1 C (80.8 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Nuwara Eliya	Sri Lanka	Record high minimum temperature	15.8 C (60.4 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tecolutla	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Jordan 1SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Detroit Lakes 1 NNE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Lyman	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Deols Chateauroux Aerodrome de	France	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ponca City Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Gull Lake Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Fullerton	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Mahackala	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	23.8 C (74.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Gyshgy	Turkmenistan	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ufa	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-17.2 C (1.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Izmail	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	31.2 C (88.2 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Hill City Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Petaluma AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-1.7 C (28.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Yeso 2 S	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Lisbon	United States	Record high minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bossembele	Central African Republic	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Ayutla	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Tiririca	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	114.6 mm (4.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Chongqing	China	Record daily precipitation	40.7 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Tanegashima	Japan	Record daily precipitation	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Naze	Japan	Record daily precipitation	141.0 mm (5.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Las Vigas	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Searchlight	United States	Record low maximum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Coacoyulillo (Cfe)	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
San Miguel Ejutla	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Amealco	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bintulu	Malaysia	Record high minimum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Varfu Omul	Romania	Record high minimum temperature	2.5 C (36.5 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Janaul	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-20.3 C (-4.5 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Tukan	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-21.8 C (-7.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Verkhneuralsk	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-20.4 C (-4.7 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Densmore 2N	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Lezay	France	Record daily precipitation	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Perote	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Buzau	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	31.2 C (88.2 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Bucuresti-Baneasa	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	32.2 C (90.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Pogranichnoe	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
La Cabaa	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ersov	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-14.0 C (6.8 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Odesa	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Black Rvr Pumps	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Crescent City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

860 records

Records set or tied on 6 April 1998 by type: Highest daily maximum 325, Lowest daily maximum 49, Highest daily minimum 202, Lowest daily minimum 91, Heaviest daily rainfall 159, Heaviest daily snowfall 20, Deepest snow cover 14.

Records on 6 April 1998 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	325
Lowest daily maximum	49
Highest daily minimum	202
Lowest daily minimum	91
Heaviest daily rainfall	159
Heaviest daily snowfall	20
Deepest snow cover	14

Records on 6 April 1998 by timescale: all-time 10, monthly 40, daily 810.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

672 broken records

Margins by which the 672 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 153.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

6 April 1998

Top 20 records on 6 April 1998 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
6 April 1998	Ellis, US	daily rain	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	47 years	64 of 100 (Major)
6 April 1998	Darby, US	monthly rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	22 years	61 of 100 (Major)
6 April 1998	McCracken, US	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	30.8 mm (1.2 in)	81 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Eads, US	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	59 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Fairmont, US	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	98 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Weeping Water, US	daily rain	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	69 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Meade, US	daily rain	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	102 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Alexander, US	daily rain	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	33.7 mm (1.3 in)	47 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Hebron, US	daily rain	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	102 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Ayutla (Cfe), MX	daily low min	11.7 C (53.1 F)	6.6 C (11.9 F)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Higgins, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	35 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	McGill, US	daily snowfall	16.5 cm (6.5 in)	10.1 cm (4.0 in)	76 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	McGill, US	daily snow depth	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	15.3 cm (6.0 in)	33 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Hanzhong, CN	daily rain	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	22.2 mm (0.9 in)	41 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Izmail, UA	daily high min	11.9 C (53.4 F)	1.3 C (2.3 F)	109 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Hambantota, LK	daily high min	27.1 C (80.8 F)	1.0 C (1.8 F)	71 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Nuwara Eliya, LK	daily high min	15.8 C (60.4 F)	0.7 C (1.3 F)	95 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Tecolutla, MX	daily high max	38.9 C (102.0 F)	5.6 C (10.1 F)	44 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Jordan 1SSW, US	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	24.2 mm (1.0 in)	20 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
6 April 1998	Detroit Lakes 1 NNE, US	daily high min	4.4 C (39.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	97 years	39 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 1998

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1808 to 1998. 1998 had 860 records.

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

Records on 04-06 in each year
Year	Records
1808	1
1809	2
1815	1
1839	2
1841	1
1848	1
1851	1
1853	1
1857	1
1859	2
1862	1
1863	1
1864	2
1866	1
1874	1
1881	5
1883	1
1884	1
1886	6
1887	2
1888	4
1889	1
1892	4
1893	1
1894	4
1895	3
1896	3
1897	2
1898	5
1899	3
1900	3
1901	5
1902	6
1903	5
1904	16
1905	18
1906	8
1907	21
1908	11
1909	43
1910	59
1911	59
1912	49
1913	101
1914	32
1915	25
1916	43
1917	120
1918	68
1919	65
1920	57
1921	229
1922	96
1923	96
1924	91
1925	73
1926	442
1927	80
1928	398
1929	959
1930	265
1931	248
1932	257
1933	499
1934	211
1935	460
1936	911
1937	301
1938	637
1939	611
1940	257
1941	205
1942	413
1943	510
1944	369
1945	303
1946	312
1947	411
1948	417
1949	316
1950	664
1951	559
1952	492
1953	261
1954	789
1955	342
1956	360
1957	330
1958	507
1959	551
1960	718
1961	382
1962	456
1963	551
1964	558
1965	524
1966	390
1967	671
1968	507
1969	504
1970	525
1971	691
1972	772
1973	449
1974	580
1975	1,188
1976	356
1977	838
1978	654
1979	1,233
1980	520
1981	388
1982	3,186
1983	1,454
1984	578
1985	856
1986	654
1987	1,120
1988	1,273
1989	1,396
1990	856
1991	1,939
1992	952
1993	721
1994	1,124
1995	973
1996	1,054
1997	1,870
1998	860
1999	1,703
2000	714
2001	1,172
2002	778
2003	1,339
2004	669
2005	818
2006	1,131
2007	1,328
2008	803
2009	885
2010	1,352
2011	841
2012	675
2013	595
2014	518
2015	396
2016	920
2017	490
2018	1,069
2019	397
2020	608
2021	948
2022	854
2023	1,598
2024	1,706
2025	1,034
2026	600

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Data for records on 1998-04-06: 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 20	637
20 to 40	22
40 to 60	6
60 to 80	4
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	1
120 to 140	1
140 to 160	1