Weather Records on 13 October 1923

159 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 13 October 1923. Highest significance: Coranderrk Badger Weir, AU.

Key Facts for 13 October 1923

On 13 October 1923, 159 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
43 were record highs and 17 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 12 monthly and 147 daily.
Coranderrk Badger Weir set a monthly record daily precipitation of 89.4 mm (3.5 in) on 13 October 1923.
Across 167 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 449 records.

Record Map

159 stations

159 station records on 13 October 1923 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 13 October 1923: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Coranderrk Badger Weir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Tuttlingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Kinglake West (Wallaby Creek)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Caulfield (Racecourse)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Prahran (Como House)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Ringwood 2	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Portarlington	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Narre Warren North (Narre Warr	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Tulsa	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Brighton Middle	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Beech Forest	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Yan Yean	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Eildon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Kew	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Lilydale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Walhalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Maroondah Weir (Melbourne Wate	Australia	Record daily precipitation	82.8 mm (3.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Noorinbee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Officer (Jesmond Dene)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Palmerville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Greensborough	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Fe	United States	Record low maximum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Wandin (Yallock)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Columbus	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Gembrook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Warburton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Freiburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.6 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Columbia Wb City	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Katherine Council	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Crookwell Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Sedan	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Batlow Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Grenola 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Neosho	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Stillwater 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Neerim	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Blacksburg	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Hohenpeissenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	24.0 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ekaterinburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	14.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Weissenburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Clyde State School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Toorourrong Reservoir (Toorour	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Warthausen-Birkenhard	Germany	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Syktyvkar	Russia	Record daily precipitation	10.0 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Marshall	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dromana	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beechworth Composite	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Woodside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hastings Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Murrumbeena Leeds Grove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
New Westminster	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fayette	United States	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Woods Point	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Beales Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Bungaree (Kirks Reservoir)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Salzburg	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	24.9 C (76.8 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Zagreb-Gric	Croatia	Record high minimum temperature	15.3 C (59.5 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Maytown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Elaine (Larundel)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Hamilton	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

159 records

Records set or tied on 13 October 1923 by type: Highest daily maximum 32, Lowest daily maximum 12, Highest daily minimum 11, Lowest daily minimum 5, Heaviest daily rainfall 99.

Records on 13 October 1923 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	32
Lowest daily maximum	12
Highest daily minimum	11
Lowest daily minimum	5
Heaviest daily rainfall	99
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 13 October 1923 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 12, daily 147.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

138 broken records

Margins by which the 138 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 58.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

13 October 1923

Top 20 records on 13 October 1923 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
13 October 1923	Coranderrk Badger Weir, AU	monthly rain	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	41 years	66 of 100 (Major)
13 October 1923	Tuttlingen, DE	daily rain	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	24.2 mm (1.0 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Kinglake West (Wallaby Creek), AU	daily rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	20 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Caulfield (Racecourse), AU	daily rain	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	21 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Prahran (Como House), AU	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	20 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Ringwood 2, AU	monthly rain	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	41 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Portarlington, AU	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Narre Warren North (Narre Warr, AU	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	21.4 mm (0.8 in)	41 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Tulsa, US	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	32 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Brighton Middle, AU	monthly rain	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	6 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Beech Forest, AU	daily rain	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	29 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Yan Yean, AU	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Lake Eildon, AU	daily rain	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	20 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Kew, AU	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	41 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Lilydale, AU	monthly rain	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	37 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
13 October 1923	Walhalla, AU	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	22 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
13 October 1923	Maroondah Weir (Melbourne Wate, AU	monthly rain	82.8 mm (3.3 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	2 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
13 October 1923	Noorinbee, AU	daily rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	25 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
13 October 1923	Officer (Jesmond Dene), AU	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	12 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
13 October 1923	Palmerville, AU	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	6 years	29 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 1923

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1923. 1923 had 159 records.

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

Records on 10-13 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1809	1
1814	1
1817	1
1831	1
1839	1
1849	1
1850	1
1852	1
1856	1
1860	2
1861	2
1863	1
1864	1
1865	1
1866	2
1867	2
1870	1
1871	3
1872	1
1874	1
1875	1
1876	3
1879	1
1881	2
1882	2
1884	1
1885	4
1886	1
1887	2
1888	1
1889	3
1890	1
1891	2
1893	1
1894	4
1895	6
1896	3
1897	1
1898	3
1899	3
1900	1
1901	8
1902	16
1903	10
1904	18
1905	5
1906	10
1907	16
1908	13
1909	39
1910	26
1911	13
1912	21
1913	29
1914	21
1915	79
1916	52
1917	30
1918	28
1919	47
1920	41
1921	74
1922	22
1923	159
1924	77
1925	208
1926	137
1927	225
1928	470
1929	169
1930	375
1931	317
1932	315
1933	186
1934	445
1935	310
1936	251
1937	371
1938	525
1939	203
1940	267
1941	555
1942	351
1943	501
1944	350
1945	252
1946	374
1947	399
1948	294
1949	599
1950	704
1951	411
1952	335
1953	275
1954	1,071
1955	535
1956	857
1957	629
1958	535
1959	536
1960	383
1961	433
1962	840
1963	519
1964	515
1965	180
1966	878
1967	307
1968	577
1969	2,308
1970	672
1971	576
1972	534
1973	811
1974	423
1975	1,002
1976	900
1977	1,036
1978	800
1979	922
1980	742
1981	973
1982	1,328
1983	1,412
1984	495
1985	979
1986	1,468
1987	1,155
1988	1,499
1989	571
1990	1,391
1991	807
1992	1,150
1993	932
1994	904
1995	1,224
1996	619
1997	1,790
1998	840
1999	696
2000	768
2001	1,112
2002	922
2003	764
2004	735
2005	761
2006	1,571
2007	602
2008	1,479
2009	1,777
2010	626
2011	772
2012	819
2013	478
2014	552
2015	853
2016	572
2017	708
2018	1,475
2019	874
2020	532
2021	1,413
2022	972
2023	1,060
2024	962
2025	760
2026	321

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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).

Histogram of margins by which records were beaten on 13 October 1923
Margin	Records
0 to 10	99
10 to 20	22
20 to 30	10
30 to 40	5
40 to 50	0
50 to 60	2