Weather Records on 11 April 1998

916 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 11 April 1998. Highest significance: Bringelly (Maryland), AU.

Key Facts for 11 April 1998

On 11 April 1998, 916 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
381 were record highs and 214 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 25 monthly and 890 daily.
Bringelly (Maryland) set a daily record precipitation of 84.5 mm (3.3 in) on 11 April 1998.
Across 164 earlier years (1800 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 478 records.

Record Map

916 stations

916 station records on 11 April 1998 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 11 April 1998: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bringelly (Maryland)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	84.5 mm (3.3 in)	78 of 100 (Major)
Potts Hill Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	123.0 mm (4.8 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
Sydney (Observatory Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	165.2 mm (6.5 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
Gordon Golf Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	166.0 mm (6.5 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Turramurra (Kissing Point Road	Australia	Record daily precipitation	128.6 mm (5.1 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Rose Bay (Royal Sydney Golf Cl	Australia	Record daily precipitation	99.0 mm (3.9 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Sola	Norway	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Cromer Golf Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	190.4 mm (7.5 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Five Dock (Barnwell Park Golf	Australia	Record daily precipitation	141.0 mm (5.6 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Williambury	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Sydney Botanic Gardens	Australia	Record daily precipitation	147.8 mm (5.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Miranda (Blackwood St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	113.8 mm (4.5 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Coober Pedy (Ingomar)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Manly Vale (Manly Dam)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	128.0 mm (5.0 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Rookwood (Hawthorne Ave)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	104.0 mm (4.1 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Prospect Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Revesby (Paten Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.4 mm (3.7 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Castle Cove (Rosebridge Ave)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	279.0 mm (11.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Yaninee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Winning	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.0 mm (2.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Cronulla South Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	157.4 mm (6.2 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Eastwood Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	112.0 mm (4.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Pymble (Canisius College)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	163.2 mm (6.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Tejon Rancho	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Granville Rsl Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	123.0 mm (4.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
West Pennant Hills (Oratava A	Australia	Record daily precipitation	111.0 mm (4.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Freiburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Concord Golf Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	118.0 mm (4.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Merrylands (Welsford Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	96.8 mm (3.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Schallstadt-Mengen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.4 mm (1.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Donaueschingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Mia Mia	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Indooroopilly Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	75.6 mm (3.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Newport Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.6 mm (4.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Parramatta North (Masons Drive	Australia	Record daily precipitation	95.2 mm (3.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Granville Shell Refinery	Australia	Record daily precipitation	107.0 mm (4.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bjorheim I Ryfylke	Norway	Record daily precipitation	38.8 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bexley Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	100.0 mm (3.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Mosman (Bapaume Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.6 mm (4.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Randwick Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	87.8 mm (3.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Strathfield Golf Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	143.6 mm (5.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Randwick Racecourse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.0 mm (4.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Schopfheim-Eichen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Egersund	Norway	Record daily precipitation	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sviland	Norway	Record daily precipitation	42.5 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Esk Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Riverview Observatory	Australia	Record daily precipitation	141.6 mm (5.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Xinyang	China	Record daily precipitation	73.3 mm (2.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ceduna Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Epping Chester Street	Australia	Record daily precipitation	140.2 mm (5.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Liverpool(Whitlam Centre)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	83.4 mm (3.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Villingen-Schwenningen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Titusville	United States	Record low maximum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Marble Bar Comparison	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	29.7 C (85.5 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Granja Coronel Pedro Osorio	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ningaloo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Seven Hills (Collins St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Emmendingen-Mundingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kr. Ostalb Gschwend	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.6 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Rheinfelden	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

916 records

Records set or tied on 11 April 1998 by type: Highest daily maximum 229, Lowest daily maximum 111, Highest daily minimum 152, Lowest daily minimum 103, Heaviest daily rainfall 318, Heaviest daily snowfall 2, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 11 April 1998 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	229
Lowest daily maximum	111
Highest daily minimum	152
Lowest daily minimum	103
Heaviest daily rainfall	318
Heaviest daily snowfall	2
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 11 April 1998 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 25, daily 890.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

765 broken records

Margins by which the 765 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 130.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

11 April 1998

Top 20 records on 11 April 1998 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
11 April 1998	Bringelly (Maryland), AU	daily rain	84.5 mm (3.3 in)	59.1 mm (2.3 in)	130 years	78 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Potts Hill Reservoir, AU	daily rain	123.0 mm (4.8 in)	85.4 mm (3.4 in)	81 years	74 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Sydney (Observatory Hill), AU	daily rain	165.2 mm (6.5 in)	84.9 mm (3.3 in)	80 years	74 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Gordon Golf Club, AU	daily rain	166.0 mm (6.5 in)	73.3 mm (2.9 in)	80 years	71 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Turramurra (Kissing Point Road, AU	daily rain	128.6 mm (5.1 in)	77.8 mm (3.1 in)	80 years	71 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Rose Bay (Royal Sydney Golf Cl, AU	daily rain	99.0 mm (3.9 in)	75.6 mm (3.0 in)	68 years	67 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Sola, NO	monthly rain	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	30 years	64 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Cromer Golf Club, AU	monthly rain	190.4 mm (7.5 in)	47.7 mm (1.9 in)	51 years	61 of 100 (Major)
11 April 1998	Five Dock (Barnwell Park Golf, AU	daily rain	141.0 mm (5.6 in)	92.0 mm (3.6 in)	45 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Williambury, AU	daily rain	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	29 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Sydney Botanic Gardens, AU	monthly rain	147.8 mm (5.8 in)	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	70 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Miranda (Blackwood St), AU	daily rain	113.8 mm (4.5 in)	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	81 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Coober Pedy (Ingomar), AU	monthly rain	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	17.6 mm (0.7 in)	29 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Manly Vale (Manly Dam), AU	monthly rain	128.0 mm (5.0 in)	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	83 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Rookwood (Hawthorne Ave), AU	daily rain	104.0 mm (4.1 in)	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	45 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Prospect Reservoir, AU	daily rain	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	81 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Revesby (Paten Street), AU	daily rain	94.4 mm (3.7 in)	64.4 mm (2.5 in)	45 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Castle Cove (Rosebridge Ave), AU	monthly rain	279.0 mm (11.0 in)	130.4 mm (5.1 in)	9 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Yaninee, AU	daily rain	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	24 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
11 April 1998	Winning, AU	monthly rain	69.0 mm (2.7 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	88 years	54 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

1800 to 1998

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1800 to 1998. 1998 had 916 records.

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

Records on 04-11 in each year
Year	Records
1800	1
1803	1
1808	1
1809	1
1812	3
1818	1
1831	1
1832	1
1834	1
1837	1
1845	1
1854	1
1857	1
1863	2
1865	2
1866	1
1868	1
1869	3
1871	1
1874	1
1876	2
1879	2
1880	2
1881	1
1882	2
1885	1
1886	1
1887	2
1888	4
1889	2
1890	2
1891	2
1892	3
1894	7
1895	5
1896	3
1898	7
1899	11
1900	6
1901	4
1902	6
1903	13
1904	12
1905	20
1906	19
1907	7
1908	12
1909	30
1910	19
1911	19
1912	47
1913	48
1914	38
1915	127
1916	64
1917	62
1918	43
1919	42
1920	73
1921	32
1922	140
1923	89
1924	169
1925	197
1926	198
1927	156
1928	220
1929	214
1930	761
1931	185
1932	497
1933	481
1934	246
1935	261
1936	175
1937	245
1938	289
1939	611
1940	932
1941	579
1942	301
1943	546
1944	626
1945	890
1946	383
1947	478
1948	921
1949	402
1950	322
1951	623
1952	502
1953	594
1954	392
1955	610
1956	420
1957	508
1958	473
1959	582
1960	469
1961	532
1962	384
1963	450
1964	255
1965	763
1966	599
1967	757
1968	663
1969	353
1970	522
1971	495
1972	792
1973	1,479
1974	982
1975	851
1976	478
1977	1,231
1978	854
1979	977
1980	399
1981	1,036
1982	1,132
1983	1,040
1984	623
1985	952
1986	1,062
1987	440
1988	1,162
1989	1,931
1990	1,347
1991	1,287
1992	978
1993	722
1994	952
1995	2,134
1996	1,182
1997	3,077
1998	916
1999	1,318
2000	667
2001	1,865
2002	568
2003	1,156
2004	888
2005	930
2006	666
2007	962
2008	1,373
2009	1,102
2010	623
2011	1,664
2012	806
2013	1,482
2014	633
2015	399
2016	534
2017	489
2018	795
2019	812
2020	625
2021	892
2022	1,179
2023	1,036
2024	782
2025	1,177
2026	604

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Data for records on 1998-04-11: 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 2026-10-18. Last revised 18 October 2026 (2026-10-18).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	699
20 to 40	33
40 to 60	13
60 to 80	13
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	2
120 to 140	2