Weather Records on 27 August 1931

205 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 27 August 1931. Highest significance: Minnedosa, CA.

Key Facts for 27 August 1931

On 27 August 1931, 205 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
43 were record highs and 32 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 9 monthly and 196 daily.
Minnedosa set a daily record precipitation of 40.4 mm (1.6 in) on 27 August 1931.
Across 165 earlier years (1807 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 439 records.

Record Map

205 stations

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

Weather records on 27 August 1931: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Minnedosa	Canada	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Palasbari	India	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Baroda	India	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Jayamkondam	India	Record daily precipitation	133.6 mm (5.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
New Hampton	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.8 mm (3.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ambikapur	India	Record daily precipitation	144.0 mm (5.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Bakani (Rallai)	India	Record daily precipitation	231.9 mm (9.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Ariyalur	India	Record daily precipitation	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Carmel	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Narayanganj	India	Record daily precipitation	142.7 mm (5.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Georgetown	Canada	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Crescent City 3 NNW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.9 C (93.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Morden	Canada	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Parur	India	Record daily precipitation	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Rewa	India	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Fayette	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Jabalpur	India	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Grenfell	Canada	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Wien	Austria	Record low maximum temperature	13.4 C (56.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Dhamtari	India	Record daily precipitation	105.4 mm (4.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Clinton #1	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Worcester	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Jim Thorpe	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Caguas	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low maximum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Arkansas City	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Frankfort Downtown	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Fort Cochin	India	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Jabera	India	Record daily precipitation	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Amherst	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Lowville	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Grafton 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Amchong(Sonepur)	India	Record daily precipitation	84.3 mm (3.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Moab	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Minsk	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Muvattupuzha	India	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Raigarh	India	Record daily precipitation	107.2 mm (4.2 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Addison	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Barrie	Canada	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lindsay	Canada	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Welland	Canada	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sedan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Velikie Luki	Russia	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cambrai (Kongolia)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Velikie Luki	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	14.8 C (58.6 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stockton 2	United States	Record high maximum temperature	39.4 C (102.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 WSW Princeton	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dubuque River	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Basel Binningen	Switzerland	Record low minimum temperature	6.0 C (42.8 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Nedumangad	India	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Amraoti	India	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Muzaffarnagar	India	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Winchendon	United States	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Macarthur (Glenhuntly)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
St Albans	Canada	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Deols Chateauroux Aerodrome de	France	Record low minimum temperature	7.4 C (45.3 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Golaghat	India	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Sitamau	India	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Kirensk	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	14.3 C (57.7 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Los Gatos	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Carlsbad	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.1 C (106.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

205 records

Records set or tied on 27 August 1931 by type: Highest daily maximum 21, Lowest daily maximum 16, Highest daily minimum 22, Lowest daily minimum 16, Heaviest daily rainfall 130.

Records on 27 August 1931 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	21
Lowest daily maximum	16
Highest daily minimum	22
Lowest daily minimum	16
Heaviest daily rainfall	130
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 27 August 1931 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 9, daily 196.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

177 broken records

Margins by which the 177 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 98.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

27 August 1931

Top 20 records on 27 August 1931 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
27 August 1931	Minnedosa, CA	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	46 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Palasbari, IN	daily rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	98.6 mm (3.9 in)	4 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Baroda, IN	daily rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	14 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Jayamkondam, IN	monthly rain	133.6 mm (5.3 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	0 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	New Hampton, US	daily rain	81.8 mm (3.2 in)	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	2 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Ambikapur, IN	daily rain	144.0 mm (5.7 in)	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	24 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Bakani (Rallai), IN	monthly rain	231.9 mm (9.1 in)	69.3 mm (2.7 in)	2 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Ariyalur, IN	daily rain	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	20 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Mt Carmel, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	24 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Narayanganj, IN	daily rain	142.7 mm (5.6 in)	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	6 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
27 August 1931	Georgetown, CA	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	37 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Crescent City 3 NNW, US	daily high max	33.9 C (93.0 F)	6.7 C (12.1 F)	36 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Morden, CA	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	40 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Parur, IN	daily rain	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	8 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Rewa, IN	daily rain	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	20 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Fayette, US	daily rain	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	2 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Jabalpur, IN	daily rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	10 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Grenfell, CA	monthly rain	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	0.8 mm (0.03 in)	37 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Wien, AT	daily low max	13.4 C (56.1 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	60 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
27 August 1931	Dhamtari, IN	daily rain	105.4 mm (4.1 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	24 years	25 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

1807 to 1931

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1807 to 1931. 1931 had 205 records.

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

Records on 08-27 in each year
Year	Records
1807	3
1810	1
1811	1
1813	1
1816	1
1827	1
1829	1
1834	1
1846	1
1847	1
1848	1
1854	1
1857	1
1858	1
1859	1
1863	1
1864	3
1865	2
1869	1
1870	1
1871	1
1874	1
1876	1
1877	4
1880	1
1881	2
1882	1
1884	3
1885	2
1886	2
1887	2
1889	1
1890	10
1891	4
1892	1
1894	7
1895	1
1896	4
1899	5
1900	5
1901	6
1902	2
1903	22
1904	4
1905	16
1906	27
1907	9
1908	10
1909	10
1910	6
1911	16
1912	40
1913	10
1914	31
1915	37
1916	106
1917	57
1918	18
1919	78
1920	36
1921	27
1922	52
1923	63
1924	245
1925	102
1926	143
1927	395
1928	197
1929	80
1930	247
1931	205
1932	355
1933	368
1934	249
1935	348
1936	806
1937	679
1938	374
1939	191
1940	468
1941	504
1942	476
1943	581
1944	811
1945	414
1946	345
1947	291
1948	987
1949	475
1950	380
1951	415
1952	402
1953	712
1954	594
1955	485
1956	387
1957	615
1958	213
1959	522
1960	365
1961	365
1962	577
1963	335
1964	400
1965	440
1966	406
1967	887
1968	517
1969	780
1970	1,361
1971	640
1972	722
1973	1,519
1974	722
1975	506
1976	565
1977	793
1978	671
1979	917
1980	478
1981	998
1982	828
1983	823
1984	683
1985	660
1986	1,072
1987	1,356
1988	601
1989	854
1990	761
1991	813
1992	1,657
1993	1,087
1994	696
1995	1,143
1996	968
1997	1,189
1998	1,387
1999	1,258
2000	865
2001	1,304
2002	1,027
2003	916
2004	1,037
2005	733
2006	1,090
2007	958
2008	885
2009	701
2010	1,045
2011	1,518
2012	626
2013	629
2014	582
2015	832
2016	968
2017	838
2018	933
2019	1,013
2020	777
2021	635
2022	470
2023	953
2024	600
2025	1,218
2026	815

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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 20	146
20 to 40	16
40 to 60	8
60 to 80	5
80 to 100	2