Through long-term field fibre PMD measurement, two occurrence patterns of large instantaneous differential group delays (DGDs), of less than 10 25 probability, were observed. Most high DGD occurrences, which continue more than hours in limited bandwidth, clearly show positive correlation with ambient temperature even though most of the fibres are buried; and only an emergent spike, which seems not to relate to temperature, was also recorded. In both patterns, secondorder polarisation mode dispersion on the wavelength at the same timing has local maximum values with the same occurrence patterns, but PDL does not have local maximum values on the wavelength at the same timing.Introduction: Recent advanced transmission schemes have successfully increased their polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance significantly [1], even if PMD is difficult to handle owing to its statistical behaviour caused by environmental influence. Beyond the PMD limitation overcome with recent advances in electrical solutions, the PMD phenomenon still gives us more severe conditions (high instantaneous DGD) with very low probability, less than 10 25 . Usually these rare events are allowed because the happenings are less than 6 min per year in calculation. However, this duration is assumed for all channels over wavelengths. Therefore, it may occur in a limited bandwidth (for a few channels) with more than a few hours, practically owing to wavelength dependency. To consider the degraded conditions, it is important to grasp the causes of very high instantaneous DGD.As reported in [2-4], we have undertaken long-term field fibre PMD measurements in Indiana, USA. Those measurements, which are the latest, very fast, and accurate measurement technologies, gave us new insights of PMD phenomena such as wavelength dependency, positive and negative correlation with temperature, and so on. At the same time, huge amounts of data, more than 70 million in the continuous measurements, made us analyse the data points of the rare events, which had not been well reported before.In this study, we investigated polarisation characteristics such as DGD, second-order PMD (SOPMD) and polarisation dependent loss (PDL) when DGD would take higher instantaneous values with a very low probability of less than 10 25 . There are two types of event occurrence modes on DGD and the dominant case could be correlated with ambient temperature changes and temporal wavelength dependency.