Weather Records on 27 January 1939

312 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 27 January 1939. Highest significance: Stroud Post Office, AU.

Key Facts for 27 January 1939

On 27 January 1939, 312 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
17 were record highs and 18 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 5 monthly and 306 daily.
Stroud Post Office set a daily record precipitation of 80.0 mm (3.1 in) on 27 January 1939.
Across 162 earlier years (1796 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 483 records.

Record Map

312 stations

312 station records on 27 January 1939 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 27 January 1939: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Stroud Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Uralla (Dumaresq St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Degilbo Rail STN	Australia	Record daily precipitation	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Burnerbinmah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Cadelga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Cowley Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	102.6 mm (4.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gundy (Miller St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
South Comongin	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bunnan (Milhaven)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Weribone	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Dillalah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Collarenebri (Albert St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Millers Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Rouchel Brook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Uralla (Salisbury Court)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Krambach (Bellevue)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.4 mm (2.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Weissenburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Coonamble Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Camboon Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	83.1 mm (3.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Doreen	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Tingha (Crystal Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Wandsworth (Strabanne)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Aberdeen (Main Rd)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Dobikin	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Moonan Flat (High St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Merriwa (Cranbourne)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wingen (Murrulla)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wiluna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Gresford Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Scone (Philip Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Irving	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Coonamble (Nardoo)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Tamworth West	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Murrurundi Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Glenbie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Warra Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Collarenebri (Goondoobluie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Bundarra Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Thundelarra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Tanbar Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Cooyar Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Cuerindi	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Glen Innes Gasworks	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Ebor (Kotupna)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Dungog Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Greta Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Burindi	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Kellys Plain (Haroldston)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Blackville (Krui Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Branxton (Dalwood Vineyard)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Sedgefield (Bundajon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Collarenebri (Dunumbral)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Pointe Riche	Canada	Record daily snowfall	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bingara (Derra Derra)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Manilla Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Tamworth Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Wallabadah (Woodton)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Branxton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Muscle Creek (Clendinning)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Quabathoo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

312 records

Records set or tied on 27 January 1939 by type: Highest daily maximum 2, Lowest daily maximum 10, Highest daily minimum 15, Lowest daily minimum 8, Heaviest daily rainfall 268, Heaviest daily snowfall 3, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 27 January 1939 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	2
Lowest daily maximum	10
Highest daily minimum	15
Lowest daily minimum	8
Heaviest daily rainfall	268
Heaviest daily snowfall	3
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 27 January 1939 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 5, daily 306.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

290 broken records

Margins by which the 290 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 102.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

27 January 1939

Top 20 records on 27 January 1939 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
27 January 1939	Stroud Post Office, AU	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	43 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Uralla (Dumaresq St), AU	daily rain	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	32 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Degilbo Rail STN, AU	daily rain	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	42 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Burnerbinmah, AU	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	28 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Cadelga, AU	monthly rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	2 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Cowley Station, AU	monthly rain	102.6 mm (4.0 in)	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	48 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Gundy (Miller St), AU	daily rain	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	49 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	South Comongin, AU	daily rain	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	39 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Bunnan (Milhaven), AU	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	31 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Weribone, AU	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	49 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Dillalah, AU	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	0 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Collarenebri (Albert St), AU	daily rain	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	5 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Millers Creek, AU	daily rain	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	43 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Rouchel Brook, AU	daily rain	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	32 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Uralla (Salisbury Court), AU	daily rain	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	3 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Krambach (Bellevue), AU	daily rain	74.4 mm (2.9 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	28 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Weissenburg, DE	daily rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	37 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
27 January 1939	Coonamble Comparison, AU	daily rain	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	8 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
27 January 1939	Camboon Station, AU	daily rain	83.1 mm (3.3 in)	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	8 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
27 January 1939	Doreen, AU	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	31 years	32 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

1796 to 1939

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1796 to 1939. 1939 had 312 records.

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

Records on 01-27 in each year
Year	Records
1796	1
1804	1
1830	2
1834	2
1840	1
1841	1
1843	1
1844	1
1846	2
1848	2
1850	1
1855	1
1858	2
1862	1
1867	1
1870	1
1871	1
1873	2
1878	1
1879	1
1880	1
1882	1
1883	2
1885	1
1886	1
1887	1
1888	1
1889	3
1890	4
1891	1
1892	4
1894	9
1895	4
1897	4
1898	2
1899	1
1900	3
1901	16
1902	9
1903	10
1904	23
1905	9
1906	6
1907	29
1908	34
1909	4
1910	25
1911	52
1912	28
1913	19
1914	52
1915	35
1916	125
1917	40
1918	87
1919	26
1920	55
1921	21
1922	38
1923	138
1924	273
1925	117
1926	55
1927	191
1928	200
1929	166
1930	148
1931	328
1932	202
1933	302
1934	765
1935	270
1936	826
1937	243
1938	305
1939	312
1940	896
1941	405
1942	579
1943	355
1944	1,751
1945	242
1946	165
1947	532
1948	809
1949	1,245
1950	915
1951	355
1952	689
1953	376
1954	804
1955	397
1956	653
1957	948
1958	336
1959	466
1960	214
1961	899
1962	754
1963	1,226
1964	144
1965	317
1966	605
1967	811
1968	785
1969	985
1970	776
1971	947
1972	955
1973	702
1974	1,261
1975	547
1976	1,090
1977	592
1978	783
1979	1,652
1980	532
1981	776
1982	939
1983	1,849
1984	753
1985	839
1986	1,052
1987	1,214
1988	799
1989	971
1990	625
1991	696
1992	1,054
1993	1,197
1994	2,051
1995	1,017
1996	1,395
1997	867
1998	697
1999	1,123
2000	1,354
2001	937
2002	1,710
2003	1,593
2004	827
2005	1,018
2006	1,018
2007	846
2008	734
2009	965
2010	905
2011	719
2012	658
2013	907
2014	434
2015	1,155
2016	1,008
2017	576
2018	546
2019	679
2020	465
2021	786
2022	420
2023	425
2024	1,082
2025	619
2026	1,139

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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	235
20 to 40	42
40 to 60	9
60 to 80	2
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	1