Weather Records on 14 August 1924

319 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 14 August 1924. Highest significance: Jena Sternwarte, DE.

Key Facts for 14 August 1924

On 14 August 1924, 319 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
24 were record highs and 176 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 5 were all-time records, 5 monthly and 309 daily.
Jena Sternwarte set a monthly record daily precipitation of 68.6 mm (2.7 in) on 14 August 1924.
Across 166 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 463 records.

Record Map

319 stations

319 station records on 14 August 1924 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 14 August 1924: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Jena Sternwarte	Germany	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	85 of 100 (Exceptional)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	115.8 mm (4.6 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Weimar	Germany	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Plauen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	100.0 mm (3.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Bad Lauchstadt	Germany	Record daily precipitation	68.7 mm (2.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Nossen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	47.7 mm (1.9 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record daily precipitation	80.2 mm (3.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Magdeburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Artern	Germany	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Lichtentanne	Germany	Record daily precipitation	84.5 mm (3.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	68.3 mm (2.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Potsdam	Germany	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Zerbst	Germany	Record daily precipitation	70.0 mm (2.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Abbeville	United States	Record low minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Clanton	United States	Record low minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Windsor Riverside	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Flora 5 NW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Pontotoc	United States	Record low minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Palestine	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Florence	United States	Record low minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Barbara	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Crystal Springs Exp STN	United States	Record low minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Yazoo City	United States	Record low minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Orebro	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	16.4 C (61.5 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Gavle	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	27.0 C (80.6 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Stockholm	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	16.5 C (61.7 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Lake	United States	Record low minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Port Gibson 1 NE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Dwtn Charleston	United States	Record low minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Canton 4N	United States	Record low minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Naracoorte	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cavendish (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nurnberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	18.1 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yanac North	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Happy Valley Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Malmsbury Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beeac (Eurack)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beaufort (Stoneleigh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aldinga Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Willunga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pomonal Windy Ridge	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Budgerum	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wooroonook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Morrisons (Ballark)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Blackwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Trentham (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Merino (Glenorchy Estate)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Woolsthorpe	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Schriever	United States	Record low minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lafayette Rgnl AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Canary Island	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Trawalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Enfield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Malin Head	Ireland	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Uniontown	United States	Record low minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Cheneyville 1 NE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Franklin 3 NW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
State UNIV	United States	Record low minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Olympia Priest Pt Park	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Lexington Bluegrass AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

319 records

Records set or tied on 14 August 1924 by type: Highest daily maximum 7, Lowest daily maximum 38, Highest daily minimum 17, Lowest daily minimum 138, Heaviest daily rainfall 119.

Records on 14 August 1924 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	7
Lowest daily maximum	38
Highest daily minimum	17
Lowest daily minimum	138
Heaviest daily rainfall	119
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 14 August 1924 by timescale: all-time 5, monthly 5, daily 309.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

260 broken records

Margins by which the 260 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 65.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

14 August 1924

Top 20 records on 14 August 1924 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
14 August 1924	Jena Sternwarte, DE	monthly rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	87 years	85 of 100 (Exceptional)
14 August 1924	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	all-time rain	115.8 mm (4.6 in)	40.8 mm (1.6 in)	34 years	76 of 100 (Major)
14 August 1924	Weimar, DE	all-time rain	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	16.4 mm (0.6 in)	30 years	65 of 100 (Major)
14 August 1924	Plauen, DE	all-time rain	100.0 mm (3.9 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	10 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Bad Lauchstadt, DE	monthly rain	68.7 mm (2.7 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	26 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Nossen, DE	daily rain	47.7 mm (1.9 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	28 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Heinersreuth-Vollhof, DE	daily rain	80.2 mm (3.2 in)	65.6 mm (2.6 in)	16 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Magdeburg, DE	monthly rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	9 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Artern, DE	monthly rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	11.3 mm (0.4 in)	26 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Lichtentanne, DE	all-time rain	84.5 mm (3.3 in)	6.3 mm (0.25 in)	28 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Chemnitz, DE	monthly rain	68.3 mm (2.7 in)	16.2 mm (0.6 in)	10 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
14 August 1924	Potsdam, DE	daily rain	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	9 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Zerbst, DE	all-time rain	70.0 mm (2.8 in)	2.2 mm (0.09 in)	12 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Abbeville, US	daily low min	17.8 C (64.0 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	17 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Clanton, US	daily low min	14.4 C (57.9 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	26 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Windsor Riverside, CA	daily low min	7.2 C (45.0 F)	3.4 C (6.1 F)	40 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Flora 5 NW, US	daily low min	7.8 C (46.0 F)	7.8 C (14.0 F)	5 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Pontotoc, US	daily low min	14.4 C (57.9 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	25 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Palestine, US	daily low min	7.2 C (45.0 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	25 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
14 August 1924	Florence, US	daily low min	15.0 C (59.0 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	26 years	23 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 1924

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1924. 1924 had 319 records.

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

Records on 08-14 in each year
Year	Records
1793	2
1807	1
1815	1
1818	1
1825	1
1833	2
1839	1
1841	1
1843	1
1845	2
1856	2
1857	1
1859	1
1861	1
1864	3
1865	1
1866	2
1868	1
1870	1
1871	1
1872	1
1873	1
1874	1
1876	4
1882	1
1884	1
1885	3
1886	1
1887	3
1889	2
1890	1
1891	1
1892	3
1893	2
1894	2
1895	3
1896	5
1897	5
1898	2
1899	2
1900	1
1901	1
1902	8
1903	8
1904	3
1905	10
1906	8
1907	6
1908	28
1909	35
1910	10
1911	30
1912	56
1913	24
1914	16
1915	17
1916	109
1917	38
1918	60
1919	103
1920	56
1921	61
1922	54
1923	92
1924	319
1925	128
1926	182
1927	147
1928	233
1929	449
1930	627
1931	410
1932	314
1933	349
1934	470
1935	314
1936	612
1937	354
1938	519
1939	376
1940	489
1941	467
1942	364
1943	583
1944	709
1945	572
1946	511
1947	658
1948	373
1949	374
1950	402
1951	458
1952	560
1953	312
1954	457
1955	535
1956	426
1957	281
1958	421
1959	495
1960	414
1961	663
1962	885
1963	811
1964	1,394
1965	451
1966	388
1967	902
1968	1,315
1969	482
1970	398
1971	677
1972	552
1973	489
1974	542
1975	461
1976	1,060
1977	562
1978	834
1979	1,115
1980	544
1981	719
1982	539
1983	775
1984	598
1985	1,095
1986	775
1987	1,157
1988	1,301
1989	728
1990	737
1991	856
1992	1,709
1993	887
1994	1,149
1995	1,444
1996	954
1997	922
1998	1,100
1999	1,329
2000	1,117
2001	806
2002	1,576
2003	1,913
2004	1,936
2005	1,340
2006	1,073
2007	1,340
2008	798
2009	818
2010	1,704
2011	772
2012	758
2013	612
2014	651
2015	931
2016	824
2017	559
2018	397
2019	578
2020	1,009
2021	932
2022	771
2023	1,116
2024	1,045
2025	798
2026	1,211

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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 10	248
10 to 20	8
20 to 30	2
30 to 40	0
40 to 50	1
50 to 60	0
60 to 70	1