Weather Records on 12 October 1923

200 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 October 1923. Highest significance: Halls Gap, AU.

Key Facts for 12 October 1923

On 12 October 1923, 200 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
34 were record highs and 13 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 5 monthly and 195 daily.
Halls Gap set a daily record precipitation of 53.8 mm (2.1 in) on 12 October 1923.
Across 163 earlier years (1805 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 453 records.

Record Map

200 stations

200 station records on 12 October 1923 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 October 1923: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Halls Gap	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Wandin (Yallock)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	85.9 mm (3.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Dunkeld	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Lorne Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Penshurst (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Trawalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hamilton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Murray Town (Doughboy Creek)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Willaura (Yarram Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gembrook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Melbourne Regional Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Beaufort	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Mortlake	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Victoria Valley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Lilydale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Brighton Middle	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Glenthompson (Brie Brie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Hawkesdale (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Melrose	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Dromana	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ringwood 2	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Koroit	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Fairlight Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Deniliquin (Wilkinson St)	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Bruthen (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Beech Forest	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Wickliffe	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Coleraine (Tulse Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Melrose (Para Gums)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Murrumbeena Leeds Grove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Warragul (Carbethon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Narre Warren North (Narre Warr	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Moose Factory	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Blackwarry	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Officer (Jesmond Dene)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Bungaree (Kirks Reservoir)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Batlow Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Caulfield (Racecourse)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Neerim	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Warragul	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Kew	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Balmoral (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cavendish (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ilulissat (Jakobshavn)	Greenland [Denmark]	Record daily precipitation	11.0 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Woolsthorpe	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Millicent	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beaufort (Stoneleigh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Germein (Telowie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Warrnambool Shire Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wartook Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Carapook (the Gums)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hobart (Ellerslie Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Queanbeyan Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ballarat Botanical Gardens	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pennyroyal Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Portland	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yan Yean	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Greensborough	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Enfield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

200 records

Records set or tied on 12 October 1923 by type: Highest daily maximum 23, Lowest daily maximum 11, Highest daily minimum 11, Lowest daily minimum 2, Heaviest daily rainfall 153.

Records on 12 October 1923 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	23
Lowest daily maximum	11
Highest daily minimum	11
Lowest daily minimum	2
Heaviest daily rainfall	153
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 12 October 1923 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 5, daily 195.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

188 broken records

Margins by which the 188 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 39.8. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 October 1923

Top 20 records on 12 October 1923 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 October 1923	Halls Gap, AU	daily rain	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	20 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Wandin (Yallock), AU	monthly rain	85.9 mm (3.4 in)	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	0 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Dunkeld, AU	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	16 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Lorne Post Office, AU	daily rain	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Penshurst (Post Office), AU	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	21.4 mm (0.8 in)	20 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Trawalla, AU	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Hamilton, AU	daily rain	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	21 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Murray Town (Doughboy Creek), AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	16 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Willaura (Yarram Park), AU	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	13.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Gembrook, AU	monthly rain	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	0 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Melbourne Regional Office, AU	daily rain	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	65 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Beaufort, AU	daily rain	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	16.6 mm (0.7 in)	20 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Mortlake, AU	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	21 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1923	Victoria Valley, AU	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1923	Lilydale, AU	daily rain	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	37 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1923	Brighton Middle, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	30 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1923	Glenthompson (Brie Brie), AU	daily rain	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	15.8 mm (0.6 in)	10 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1923	Hawkesdale (Post Office), AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	20 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1923	Melrose, AU	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	21 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1923	Dromana, AU	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	2 years	30 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

1805 to 1923

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1805 to 1923. 1923 had 200 records.

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

Records on 10-12 in each year
Year	Records
1805	2
1809	1
1810	1
1814	3
1822	1
1839	1
1841	1
1843	1
1850	1
1852	1
1854	1
1859	1
1860	2
1861	1
1867	1
1871	3
1873	2
1875	2
1876	5
1879	2
1881	2
1884	1
1885	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	1
1889	1
1890	3
1891	1
1892	1
1893	2
1894	2
1895	2
1896	3
1897	3
1898	2
1899	3
1900	2
1901	6
1902	14
1903	16
1904	30
1905	13
1906	16
1907	10
1908	13
1909	30
1910	13
1911	10
1912	30
1913	33
1914	17
1915	34
1916	29
1917	53
1918	29
1919	53
1920	79
1921	102
1922	21
1923	200
1924	129
1925	107
1926	201
1927	195
1928	714
1929	165
1930	606
1931	283
1932	398
1933	155
1934	477
1935	209
1936	301
1937	185
1938	470
1939	198
1940	235
1941	226
1942	540
1943	418
1944	274
1945	321
1946	554
1947	358
1948	311
1949	725
1950	594
1951	391
1952	352
1953	252
1954	911
1955	383
1956	899
1957	473
1958	448
1959	501
1960	449
1961	436
1962	971
1963	459
1964	636
1965	157
1966	423
1967	623
1968	443
1969	1,828
1970	763
1971	382
1972	412
1973	673
1974	369
1975	830
1976	582
1977	832
1978	525
1979	898
1980	741
1981	1,201
1982	777
1983	992
1984	636
1985	872
1986	1,510
1987	1,530
1988	1,015
1989	543
1990	1,325
1991	948
1992	865
1993	1,145
1994	934
1995	1,238
1996	816
1997	1,851
1998	741
1999	641
2000	1,095
2001	1,194
2002	1,139
2003	1,043
2004	750
2005	872
2006	1,357
2007	566
2008	1,669
2009	2,300
2010	797
2011	906
2012	921
2013	558
2014	514
2015	964
2016	374
2017	1,068
2018	1,195
2019	1,321
2020	655
2021	1,294
2022	439
2023	904
2024	958
2025	624
2026	710

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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	102
5 to 10	40
10 to 15	22
15 to 20	15
20 to 25	6
25 to 30	1
30 to 35	1
35 to 40	1