Weather records

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This is a list of weather records describing the most extreme occurrences of various meteorological phenomena. However, they only represent the highest and lowest actually measured occurrences of these phenomena. Before the invention of modern meteorological instruments, these could possibly have been higher or lower.

See also : severe weather

temperature

→ Main article : Temperature extremes

Precipitation

rain

Positive records

Time interval	Amount (mm)	place	year
1 minute	38	Barot, Guadeloupe	1970
1 hour	401	Shangdi, China	1947
12 hours	1,340	Belouve, Reunion	1964
24 hours	1,870	Cilaos, Reunion	1952
72 hours	3,929	Cratere Commerson, Reunion	2007
1 week	5,003	Commerson, Reunion	1980
1 month	9,300	Cherrapunji , India	July 1861
12 months	26,461	Cherrapunji , India	08 / 1860-07 / 1861

Negative records

Time interval	Amount (mm)	place	year
14.4 years (173 months)	0	Arica , Chile	Oct / 1903 – Jan / 1918
19 years (228 months)	0	Wadi Halfa , Sudan

snow

• Master of snow in one year: 31.1 m: Mount Rainier , Washington , USA February 19, 1971 to February 18, 1972
• largest snowflake: 38 cm in diameter; Fort Keough , Montana , USA, January 28, 1887

hail

• The largest hailstone ever recorded on the North American continent was found in the US state of South Dakota. According to the official data of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , the largest hailstone had a diameter of 20.32 and a circumference of 47.29 centimeters, its weight was 875 grams.

Other types of storms

Tornadoes

The deadliest tornadoes

Territory of the record	Location of the tornado	date	Deaths
Asia	Manikganj , Bangladesh	April 26, 1989	1361
North America	Missouri , Illinois , Indiana ( Tri-State Tornado )	March 18, 1925	695
Europe	Valletta , Malta	September 23, 1551	600 or more

Lightning bolts

A flash

• In some parts of Central Africa, especially in the Republic of the Congo , more than 70 lightning bolts strike one square kilometer every year.

Others

UV radiation

The highest UV radiation ever recorded was measured in 2003 in the Bolivian Andes with a UV index of 43.3.

See also

• List of weather events in Europe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weather records worldwide - Wetterdienst.de . In: Wetterdienst.de . ( wetterdienst.de [accessed October 30, 2018]).
2. ↑ Weather hazards - early warning. Retrieved October 30, 2018 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} WMO - World Meteorological Organization: Annual Report of the World Meteorological Organization 1994. 1995, ISBN 92-63-10824-2 .
4. ↑ Precipitation . University of Freiburg. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2009. 
5. ↑ Weather records . Wupper Association. Archived from the original on November 8, 2009. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
6. ^ Walter Lyon (1997): The Handy Weather Answer Book . Visible Ink press, Detroit 1997, ISBN 0-7876-1034-8 .
7. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Forscher-messen-UV-Strahlungsrekord-article13168076.html