Weather Records on 27 February 1931

234 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 27 February 1931. Highest significance: Soldier Creek Adm Site, US.

Key Facts for 27 February 1931

On 27 February 1931, 234 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
115 were record highs and 9 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 1 monthly and 232 daily.
Soldier Creek Adm Site set a daily record precipitation of 76.2 mm (3.0 in) on 27 February 1931.
Across 162 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 508 records.

Record Map

234 stations

234 station records on 27 February 1931 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 27 February 1931: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Soldier Creek Adm Site	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Napoleon	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Florence	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Jamestown State Hosp	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Peedamullah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Bulken	Norway	Record snow depth	130.0 cm (51.2 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Schriever	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Fergus Falls	United States	Record daily snowfall	8.6 cm (3.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Escanaba	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Caguas	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Syktyvkar	Russia	Record daily precipitation	15.9 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
The Towers	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge Niab	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	14.1 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Napoleon	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Farmington 3NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ghatal	India	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Escanaba	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Eersterivier (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mariyna Gorka	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vishnupur	India	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kluitjeskraal (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fergus Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	8.6 mm (0.34 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Maple Plain	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jamestown State Hosp	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nemours (Ghazaouet)	Algeria	Record low minimum temperature	3.0 C (37.4 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sidhauli	India	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Webster City	United States	Record high maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Haraiya	India	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Khatra	India	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Raghunathpur	India	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Amlagora	India	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Midnapore	India	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Petropavlovsk	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	2.9 mm (0.11 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Leeuwarden_1	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Postmyr I Drangedal	Norway	Record snow depth	163.0 cm (64.2 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Tuddal	Norway	Record snow depth	122.0 cm (48.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Aseral	Norway	Record snow depth	150.0 cm (59.1 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Albia 3 NNE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Columbus Junction	United States	Record high maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Mt Pleasant 1 SW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Burdwan	India	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Jhaldah(Jhalda)	India	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Hoorn	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	11.3 mm (0.4 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Stellenbosch (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Paarl (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Ashton 1N	United States	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Aledo	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
La Harpe	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Marshalltown	United States	Record high maximum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Northwood	United States	Record high maximum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Davenport L&D 15	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Cairns Post Office	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	20.8 C (69.4 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Clayoquot	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Gobindpur	India	Record daily precipitation	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Bolpur	India	Record daily precipitation	6.1 mm (0.24 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Uluberia	India	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Lien I Selbu	Norway	Record daily precipitation	16.4 mm (0.6 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Perry	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Tipton	United States	Record high maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Sekoni	India	Record daily precipitation	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

234 records

Records set or tied on 27 February 1931 by type: Highest daily maximum 78, Lowest daily maximum 4, Highest daily minimum 37, Lowest daily minimum 5, Heaviest daily rainfall 88, Heaviest daily snowfall 12, Deepest snow cover 10.

Records on 27 February 1931 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	78
Lowest daily maximum	4
Highest daily minimum	37
Lowest daily minimum	5
Heaviest daily rainfall	88
Heaviest daily snowfall	12
Deepest snow cover	10

Records on 27 February 1931 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 1, daily 232.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

200 broken records

Margins by which the 200 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 250.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

27 February 1931

Top 20 records on 27 February 1931 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
27 February 1931	Soldier Creek Adm Site, US	daily rain	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	67.6 mm (2.7 in)	34 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
27 February 1931	Napoleon, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	7.7 cm (3.0 in)	28 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
27 February 1931	Florence, US	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	13.9 cm (5.5 in)	37 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
27 February 1931	Jamestown State Hosp, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	24 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Peedamullah, AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	19 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Bulken, NO	all-time snow depth	130.0 cm (51.2 in)	2.0 cm (0.8 in)	0 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Schriever, US	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	28 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Fergus Falls, US	daily snowfall	8.6 cm (3.4 in)	4.0 cm (1.6 in)	24 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Escanaba, US	daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	6.1 cm (2.4 in)	23 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Caguas, PR	daily high min	21.7 C (71.1 F)	3.4 C (6.1 F)	11 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Syktyvkar, RU	daily rain	15.9 mm (0.6 in)	13.6 mm (0.5 in)	1 year	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	The Towers, ZA	daily rain	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	38 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Cambridge Niab, GB	daily rain	14.1 mm (0.6 in)	7.0 mm (0.28 in)	30 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Napoleon, US	daily rain	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	7.7 mm (0.30 in)	28 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Farmington 3NW, US	daily rain	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	28 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Ghatal, IN	daily rain	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	29 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Escanaba, US	daily rain	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	8.1 mm (0.32 in)	28 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Eersterivier (Bos), ZA	daily rain	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	23 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Mariyna Gorka, BY	daily rain	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	3.1 mm (0.12 in)	24 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
27 February 1931	Vishnupur, IN	daily rain	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	29 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

1794 to 1931

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1931. 1931 had 234 records.

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

Records on 02-27 in each year
Year	Records
1794	2
1796	1
1806	1
1808	1
1827	1
1836	1
1842	1
1846	2
1848	1
1849	1
1855	1
1858	2
1859	1
1860	1
1867	1
1873	2
1875	2
1877	1
1878	1
1879	1
1880	1
1882	2
1886	3
1887	1
1888	4
1889	4
1890	2
1891	2
1892	2
1893	5
1894	1
1895	1
1896	4
1897	5
1898	5
1899	5
1900	9
1901	3
1902	5
1903	12
1904	12
1905	8
1906	7
1907	10
1908	10
1909	20
1910	36
1911	20
1912	32
1913	23
1914	75
1915	13
1916	43
1917	24
1918	16
1919	77
1920	62
1921	85
1922	79
1923	76
1924	124
1925	157
1926	96
1927	62
1928	78
1929	282
1930	82
1931	234
1932	909
1933	240
1934	1,325
1935	349
1936	347
1937	543
1938	199
1939	995
1940	603
1941	293
1942	256
1943	217
1944	773
1945	753
1946	510
1947	437
1948	1,066
1949	504
1950	440
1951	605
1952	224
1953	271
1954	450
1955	974
1956	361
1957	497
1958	940
1959	245
1960	1,039
1961	356
1962	2,281
1963	958
1964	250
1965	389
1966	395
1967	444
1968	665
1969	483
1970	349
1971	1,177
1972	754
1973	444
1974	538
1975	320
1976	1,721
1977	783
1978	729
1979	716
1980	989
1981	1,066
1982	964
1983	762
1984	1,041
1985	465
1986	1,749
1987	1,400
1988	955
1989	1,246
1990	1,037
1991	558
1992	1,081
1993	1,496
1994	1,367
1995	1,209
1996	2,031
1997	1,925
1998	1,439
1999	633
2000	1,378
2001	888
2002	1,807
2003	997
2004	852
2005	614
2006	835
2007	975
2008	996
2009	1,222
2010	1,075
2011	1,135
2012	570
2013	1,082
2014	937
2015	1,621
2016	743
2017	593
2018	1,124
2019	1,513
2020	661
2021	386
2022	531
2023	893
2024	1,588
2025	623
2026	1,436

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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 50	188
50 to 100	5
100 to 150	4
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	3