Weather Records on 12 April 1915

125 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 April 1915. Highest significance: Cowes, AU.

Key Facts for 12 April 1915

On 12 April 1915, 125 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
23 were record highs and 2 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 0 monthly and 125 daily.
Cowes set a daily record precipitation of 43.2 mm (1.7 in) on 12 April 1915.
Across 161 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 504 records.

Record Map

125 stations

125 station records on 12 April 1915 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 April 1915: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Cowes	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Beales Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bungaree (Kirks Reservoir)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Ballarat Botanical Gardens	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bridgewater	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Lyonville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Foster (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ballan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Portarlington	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sunbury (Salesian College )	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Daylesford	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Gumeracha	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Woodside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Newlyn Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Dingo Vale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Hastings Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Mitcham Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Lobethal	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Strathbogie North	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Geelong Sec	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Heathcote	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Alexandra (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kyneton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kew	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Murtoa	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bright Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Little River (Mount Rothwell)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Balmoral (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Normanville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Torrens	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tot-Ma	Russia	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wallaloo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Violet Town	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Collingrove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Greenock	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Smeaton Weir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Deniliquin (Wilkinson St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Blackwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tullaroop Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stawell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fryerstown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Przhevalsk	Kyrgyzstan	Record daily precipitation	12.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Warooka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Lyndoch (Pewsey Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Coranderrk Badger Weir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Goulburn River @ Shepparton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Wandin (Yallock)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Maldon (Derby Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Truro	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Oran-Hopital Militaire	Algeria	Record low maximum temperature	16.0 C (60.8 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Pleasant	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Cavendish (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Chatham	Canada	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Charlottetown	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Belair (State Flora Nursery)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Cape Schanck Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Kerang (Meran Downs)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Castlemaine	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Saint John	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

125 records

Records set or tied on 12 April 1915 by type: Highest daily maximum 6, Lowest daily maximum 2, Highest daily minimum 17, Heaviest daily rainfall 100.

Records on 12 April 1915 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	6
Lowest daily maximum	2
Highest daily minimum	17
Lowest daily minimum	0
Heaviest daily rainfall	100
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 12 April 1915 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 0, daily 125.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

113 broken records

Margins by which the 113 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 32.5. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 April 1915

Top 20 records on 12 April 1915 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 April 1915	Cowes, AU	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	23 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
12 April 1915	Beales Reservoir, AU	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	23 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
12 April 1915	Bungaree (Kirks Reservoir), AU	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	23 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Ballarat Botanical Gardens, AU	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	21.0 mm (0.8 in)	22 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Bridgewater, AU	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	21 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Lyonville, AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	14 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Foster (Post Office), AU	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	22 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Ballan, AU	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	22 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Portarlington, AU	daily rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	21.9 mm (0.9 in)	12 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Sunbury (Salesian College ), AU	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	22 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Daylesford, AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	22 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Gumeracha, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	22.8 mm (0.9 in)	21 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse, AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	23 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Woodside, AU	daily rain	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	16.2 mm (0.6 in)	21 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Newlyn Reservoir, AU	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	14.3 mm (0.6 in)	22 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Dingo Vale, AU	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	21 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Hastings Post Office, AU	daily rain	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	11.0 mm (0.4 in)	23 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Mitcham Post Office, AU	daily rain	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	21 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Lobethal, AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	21 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
12 April 1915	Strathbogie North, AU	daily rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	17 years	22 of 100 (Routine)

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

1793 to 1915

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1915. 1915 had 125 records.

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

Records on 04-12 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1805	1
1810	1
1812	2
1817	2
1826	1
1831	1
1845	1
1850	1
1854	1
1865	2
1866	2
1868	4
1869	5
1871	1
1873	1
1874	5
1876	2
1877	1
1878	1
1879	4
1881	1
1882	1
1885	2
1889	4
1890	10
1891	3
1892	2
1893	4
1894	1
1895	1
1896	1
1897	4
1898	4
1899	5
1900	6
1901	5
1902	3
1903	10
1904	11
1905	19
1906	24
1907	5
1908	10
1909	16
1910	15
1911	26
1912	48
1913	88
1914	41
1915	125
1916	37
1917	33
1918	40
1919	39
1920	148
1921	34
1922	48
1923	134
1924	69
1925	178
1926	347
1927	179
1928	145
1929	141
1930	638
1931	267
1932	253
1933	551
1934	531
1935	171
1936	277
1937	236
1938	175
1939	1,174
1940	1,407
1941	869
1942	191
1943	614
1944	423
1945	884
1946	347
1947	733
1948	1,496
1949	358
1950	638
1951	1,102
1952	455
1953	707
1954	424
1955	611
1956	382
1957	910
1958	542
1959	513
1960	314
1961	551
1962	510
1963	518
1964	363
1965	659
1966	520
1967	682
1968	717
1969	352
1970	568
1971	587
1972	1,316
1973	903
1974	822
1975	704
1976	1,076
1977	1,069
1978	533
1979	1,096
1980	611
1981	1,068
1982	852
1983	877
1984	671
1985	734
1986	1,350
1987	606
1988	1,369
1989	1,838
1990	946
1991	1,484
1992	1,000
1993	586
1994	1,375
1995	1,173
1996	994
1997	3,094
1998	1,409
1999	873
2000	784
2001	1,369
2002	600
2003	1,079
2004	964
2005	536
2006	796
2007	1,144
2008	1,015
2009	811
2010	935
2011	1,026
2012	666
2013	1,039
2014	597
2015	504
2016	595
2017	519
2018	868
2019	685
2020	1,150
2021	710
2022	1,862
2023	1,262
2024	1,086
2025	1,281
2026	622

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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 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 5	55
5 to 10	17
10 to 15	15
15 to 20	12
20 to 25	11
25 to 30	2
30 to 35	1