Weather Records on 27 October 1931

241 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 27 October 1931. Highest significance: Port Arthur, CA.

Key Facts for 27 October 1931

On 27 October 1931, 241 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
93 were record highs and 52 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 234 daily.
Port Arthur set a monthly record daily precipitation of 83.8 mm (3.3 in) on 27 October 1931.
Across 159 earlier years (1802 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 480 records.

Record Map

241 stations

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

Weather records on 27 October 1931: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Port Arthur	Canada	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure	Russia	Record daily precipitation	48.6 mm (1.9 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Mayville	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Schreiber	Canada	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Savanne	Canada	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Hallock	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Aberdeen	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Larimore 4SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Skara 1	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-11.5 C (11.3 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Grand Forks UNIV (NWS)	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Vik I Sogn III	Norway	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Osijek	Croatia	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Buffelsnek (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nordby (Fano)	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-4.6 C (23.7 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Deols Chateauroux Aerodrome de	France	Record low maximum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Bakke	Norway	Record daily precipitation	57.3 mm (2.3 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Uppsala_Aut	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-9.5 C (14.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Atyrau	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Kirchdorf/Poel	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-2.5 C (27.5 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Jonkoping	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-7.4 C (18.7 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Gavle	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-14.3 C (6.3 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Astrakan	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	21.5 C (70.7 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Feodosiia	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	28.4 C (83.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Brownwood 2NE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Vytegra	Russia	Record daily precipitation	21.4 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kurgan	Russia	Record daily precipitation	24.0 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Orenburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	15.8 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wahpeton 3 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Amenia	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Morden	Canada	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cheljabinsk-Balandi	Russia	Record daily precipitation	11.6 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beardsley	United States	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Treherne	Canada	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Crookston NW Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fergus Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dargo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Traverse Cy Cherry Capital AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Boko	India	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Petoskey	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Moorhead St Teachers C	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Duchesne	United States	Record low maximum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hornindal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Vasteras-Hasslo	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-9.5 C (14.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Calumet	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Bathurst	Canada	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Munchen-Nymphenburg	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	1.6 C (34.9 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Blikana	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Bjuraker	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-11.0 C (12.2 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
State UNIV	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
White River	Canada	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Muenster	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-3.0 C (26.6 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Schwerin	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-4.5 C (23.9 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-6.2 C (20.8 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Olin	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Ashland	United States	Record low maximum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Greenville Kgvl Radio	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Sterkspruit	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Orebro	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-6.3 C (20.7 F)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Carbondale Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

241 records

Records set or tied on 27 October 1931 by type: Highest daily maximum 41, Lowest daily maximum 19, Highest daily minimum 52, Lowest daily minimum 33, Heaviest daily rainfall 94, Deepest snow cover 2.

Records on 27 October 1931 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	41
Lowest daily maximum	19
Highest daily minimum	52
Lowest daily minimum	33
Heaviest daily rainfall	94
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	2

Records on 27 October 1931 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 7, daily 234.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

201 broken records

Margins by which the 201 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 70.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

27 October 1931

Top 20 records on 27 October 1931 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
27 October 1931	Port Arthur, CA	monthly rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	18 years	60 of 100 (Major)
27 October 1931	Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure, RU	daily rain	48.6 mm (1.9 in)	44.3 mm (1.7 in)	37 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
27 October 1931	Mayville, US	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	28.9 mm (1.1 in)	30 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
27 October 1931	Schreiber, CA	daily rain	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	14 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
27 October 1931	Savanne, CA	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	35 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
27 October 1931	Hallock, US	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	12 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
27 October 1931	Aberdeen, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	36 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
27 October 1931	Larimore 4SW, US	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	19.5 mm (0.8 in)	36 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
27 October 1931	Skara 1, SE	daily low min	-11.5 C (11.3 F)	6.5 C (11.7 F)	44 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Grand Forks UNIV (NWS), US	daily rain	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	30 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Vik I Sogn III, NO	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	17.6 mm (0.7 in)	4 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Osijek, HR	monthly rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	8.8 mm (0.35 in)	12 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Buffelsnek (Bos), ZA	daily rain	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	28 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Nordby (Fano), DK	daily low min	-4.6 C (23.7 F)	2.1 C (3.8 F)	49 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Deols Chateauroux Aerodrome de, FR	monthly low max	2.8 C (37.0 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	23 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Bakke, NO	daily rain	57.3 mm (2.3 in)	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	5 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Uppsala_Aut, SE	daily low min	-9.5 C (14.9 F)	1.8 C (3.2 F)	38 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Atyrau, KZ	daily high min	10.0 C (50.0 F)	2.1 C (3.8 F)	49 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Kirchdorf/Poel, DE	daily low min	-2.5 C (27.5 F)	2.0 C (3.6 F)	43 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
27 October 1931	Jonkoping, SE	daily low min	-7.4 C (18.7 F)	2.4 C (4.3 F)	38 years	22 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

1802 to 1931

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1802 to 1931. 1931 had 241 records.

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

Records on 10-27 in each year
Year	Records
1802	1
1807	1
1816	1
1831	1
1838	1
1840	1
1841	2
1847	2
1849	2
1856	2
1861	1
1866	4
1869	4
1870	2
1871	2
1873	1
1874	2
1876	1
1878	1
1880	2
1881	2
1885	2
1886	2
1887	5
1888	3
1889	1
1890	2
1892	3
1893	2
1894	2
1895	3
1896	2
1898	4
1899	14
1900	9
1901	5
1902	8
1903	23
1904	6
1905	11
1906	11
1907	9
1908	16
1909	13
1910	14
1911	20
1912	42
1913	91
1914	54
1915	65
1916	28
1917	45
1918	77
1919	74
1920	98
1921	37
1922	97
1923	63
1924	104
1925	383
1926	176
1927	521
1928	162
1929	92
1930	158
1931	241
1932	319
1933	313
1934	173
1935	266
1936	725
1937	477
1938	160
1939	836
1940	605
1941	409
1942	629
1943	479
1944	519
1945	674
1946	450
1947	551
1948	160
1949	182
1950	603
1951	269
1952	640
1953	285
1954	493
1955	578
1956	339
1957	1,116
1958	163
1959	376
1960	180
1961	428
1962	704
1963	798
1964	294
1965	284
1966	256
1967	485
1968	436
1969	532
1970	1,071
1971	1,157
1972	694
1973	719
1974	384
1975	424
1976	1,387
1977	608
1978	593
1979	553
1980	1,148
1981	1,076
1982	793
1983	707
1984	1,183
1985	592
1986	531
1987	863
1988	829
1989	1,506
1990	441
1991	1,722
1992	703
1993	667
1994	894
1995	1,238
1996	1,651
1997	2,783
1998	1,696
1999	991
2000	832
2001	1,100
2002	1,040
2003	1,669
2004	1,546
2005	897
2006	1,442
2007	950
2008	650
2009	954
2010	1,676
2011	690
2012	991
2013	706
2014	973
2015	395
2016	761
2017	582
2018	701
2019	1,364
2020	2,886
2021	536
2022	657
2023	1,668
2024	694
2025	524

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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	166
10 to 20	23
20 to 30	7
30 to 40	2
40 to 50	2
50 to 60	0
60 to 70	1