World Weather Extremes

On this page are daily weather extremes reported to the Climate Assessment Database managed by the USA Climate Prediction Center (CPC).

Extremes for Thursday, August 20, 2026. Updates at 11 pm AEST for the previous day data (processed by CPC at 8am EST/EDT/ 1pm UTC).

Australian Extremes

High Temperature

35.7°C at Fitzroy Crossing Aero


Low Temperature

1.5°C at Cunderdin Airfield


High Precipatation

22.0mm at Tibooburra Airport



World Extremes (excluding Antartica, Greenland)

High Temperature

47.5°C at Adrar, Algeria


Low Temperature

-15.1°C at -99999, Chile


High Precipatation

333.0mm at Ulan-ude, Russia



Data courtesy of NWS-CPC