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United States · 20 August 2016

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Average

16.7°C

low 12.7° · high 20.1°

Rainfall

5.4mm

rain recorded

Wind

4.8m/s

daily average

Humidity

78.7%

daily average

Cloud

67%

cover

Pressure

1013hPa

daily average

The temperature ranged from 12.7°C around 23:00 to 20.1°C around 14:00. Rain was recorded across 10 hours, from around 02:00 to 18:00 (5.4mm total).

How unusual was this day?

Compared against the same 135 calendar days (±7 days) across the other 9 years on file.

High temperature

3th percentile

Low temperature

9th percentile

Rainfall

77th percentile

Wind

69th percentile

A percentile of 100 means this was the hottest/wettest/windiest of the comparable days on file; 50 is right in the middle. This window's average temperature was 21.4°C, versus 16.7°C on this specific day.

Sun & daylight

Sunrise

06:38

Sunset

20:23

Day length

13h 45m

Hour by hour

Temperature (line) and hourly rainfall (bars), local time — America/Chicago.

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Cumulative rainfall through the day.

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Local timeUTCTemp °CFeels °CRain mmWind m/sDirHumidity %Pressure hPa
00:0005:0016.213.405.1N781013
01:0006:0016.313.70.064.9NNW801013
02:0007:0015.913.30.145.2NW841013
03:0008:0015.212.70.435.1NW901013
04:0009:0014.5121.085NW921013
05:0010:0013.711.41.744.5NW921013
06:0011:0013.711.20.854.6NW931013
07:0012:0013.811.30.134.7NW921013
08:0013:0013.510.70.135NW911013
09:0014:0014.311.20.025.5NW891013
10:0015:0017.114.50.045.2WNW781013
11:0016:001815.70.15.3NW791013
12:0017:0019.6170.115.7NW721012
13:0018:002017.10.066.1NW701012
14:0019:0020.117.10.086.1NW691012
15:0020:0019.916.70.076.4NNW691011
16:0021:0019.816.10.086.4NNW641012
17:0022:0020.116.50.036.3NNW631012
18:0023:0019.116.50.244.8NNW651012
19:0000:0018.816.90.013.7NW661013
20:0001:0018.517.102.9NW651013
21:0002:0016.515.302.2NW711013
22:0003:0013.112.101.9NW871013
23:0004:0012.711.502NW891014

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Data source & coverage — ERA5 reanalysis, 2016–2025 (10 years)details
Source
ERA5 reanalysis, accessed via the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store
Data type
Reanalysis — a physically consistent reconstruction combining a forecast model with historical observations, not a live station reading or a forecast
Coverage
2016–2025 (10 years) for United States
Location
Madison — 44.000°, -97.000°, ERA5 grid cell center, 9.1 km from requested point
Time zone
America/Chicago
What's shown here
The hourly and daily record for 20 August 2016 specifically — not a monthly average. See the Madison climate overview for typical conditions.
Spatial resolution
0.25° (~25 km) distributed grid — ERA5's native model resolution is finer; this is the publicly distributed regridded product
Version / refreshed
Methodology v2026.07 · data last refreshed December 31, 2025
Limitations
A model reconstruction, not a station observation — hyper-local extremes (a single storm cell, an urban heat pocket) can differ from a nearby gauge. See the full methodology.
Attribution
Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information

Cite this data

Plain text
PastClimate (2026-07-18). Historical climate data for Madison, United States (44.00°N, 97.00°W), derived from ERA5 (Hersbach et al., 2023, Copernicus Climate Change Service). Retrieved from https://www.pastclimate.com/
APA
PastClimate. (2026). Historical climate data for Madison, United States [Data set]. Derived from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service). Retrieved July 18, 2026, from https://www.pastclimate.com/
MLA
"Historical Climate Data for Madison, United States." PastClimate, derived from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service), July 18, 2026, www.pastclimate.com.
BibTeX
@misc{pastclimate,
  author = {PastClimate},
  title = {Historical climate data for Madison, United States},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Derived from ERA5 (Hersbach et al., 2023), Copernicus Climate Change Service. Accessed 2026-07-18},
  url = {https://www.pastclimate.com/}
}

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