Weather Records on 12 October 1926

201 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 October 1926. Highest significance: Vasteras-Hasslo, SE.

Key Facts for 12 October 1926

On 12 October 1926, 201 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
54 were record highs and 10 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 4 monthly and 197 daily.
Vasteras-Hasslo set a daily record precipitation of 25.4 mm (1.0 in) on 12 October 1926.
Across 163 earlier years (1805 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 453 records.

Record Map

201 stations

201 station records on 12 October 1926 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 October 1926: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Vasteras-Hasslo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Galway	Ireland	Record daily precipitation	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Cape Willoughby	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Hobart (Ellerslie Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Minneapolis	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Williamstown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Saddleworth	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bundaleer Forest Reserve	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Burra (Kooringa)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Postmyr I Drangedal	Norway	Record snow depth	21.0 cm (8.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Georgetown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Echunga Golf Course	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Collingrove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Talladega	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Wamego 4 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Hewitt	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cooke Plains	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cantara	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wychitella South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stockholm	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	21.7 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beachport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Putten (Gld)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Coromandel Valley (Branden)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Goolwa Council Depot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Oudenbosch	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	20.4 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bombala (Therry Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Elliot Caravan Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kerkwerve	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	22.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sturt	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kingston SE	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Winterswijk	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	24.5 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bramfield Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Koolunga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hallett (Old Canowie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Willsons River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Magill Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Happy Valley Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cooma Lambie Street	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rosedale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Brisbane Regional Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	35.9 C (96.6 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Candelo Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Delegate (Weewalla)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Round Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-5.4 C (22.3 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Godegard	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stokes	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Gladstone	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Yacka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Adelaide (Salisbury Bowling Cl	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
La Harpe	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
American River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Kingscote	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Alexandra (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Heathcote	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Tuddal	Norway	Record snow depth	13.0 cm (5.1 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Highland Home	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Sedan	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Marrabel	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Bobundara	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

201 records

Records set or tied on 12 October 1926 by type: Highest daily maximum 16, Lowest daily maximum 3, Highest daily minimum 38, Lowest daily minimum 7, Heaviest daily rainfall 134, Deepest snow cover 3.

Records on 12 October 1926 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	16
Lowest daily maximum	3
Highest daily minimum	38
Lowest daily minimum	7
Heaviest daily rainfall	134
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	3

Records on 12 October 1926 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 4, daily 197.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

167 broken records

Margins by which the 167 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 180.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 October 1926

Top 20 records on 12 October 1926 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 October 1926	Vasteras-Hasslo, SE	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	16.6 mm (0.7 in)	16 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1926	Galway, IE	daily rain	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	55 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1926	Cape Willoughby, AU	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	0 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1926	Hobart (Ellerslie Road), AU	daily rain	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	3 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1926	Minneapolis, US	daily rain	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	23 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1926	Williamstown, AU	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	35 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
12 October 1926	Saddleworth, AU	daily rain	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	40 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Bundaleer Forest Reserve, AU	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	24 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Burra (Kooringa), AU	daily rain	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	10.6 mm (0.4 in)	24 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Postmyr I Drangedal, NO	daily snow depth	21.0 cm (8.3 in)	18.0 cm (7.1 in)	23 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Georgetown, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	24 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Echunga Golf Course, AU	daily rain	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	8 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Collingrove, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	20 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Talladega, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	25 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Wamego 4 W, US	monthly rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	8 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Hewitt, US	daily rain	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	15 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Cooke Plains, AU	daily rain	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	11 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Cantara, AU	daily rain	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	15.8 mm (0.6 in)	20 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Wychitella South, AU	daily rain	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	40 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
12 October 1926	Stockholm, SE	daily rain	21.7 mm (0.9 in)	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	65 years	20 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 1926

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1805 to 1926. 1926 had 201 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 25	161
25 to 50	3
50 to 75	2
75 to 100	0
100 to 125	0
125 to 150	0
150 to 175	0
175 to 200	1