Weather Records on 3 November 1940

285 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 3 November 1940. Highest significance: Uccle, BE.

Key Facts for 3 November 1940

On 3 November 1940, 285 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
145 were record highs and 18 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 17 monthly and 266 daily.
Uccle set a monthly record daily precipitation of 60.1 mm (2.4 in) on 3 November 1940.
Across 155 earlier years (1821 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 499 records.

Record Map

285 stations

285 station records on 3 November 1940 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 3 November 1940: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Uccle	Belgium	Record daily precipitation	60.1 mm (2.4 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Lakeview 2 NNW	United States	Record daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	86.6 mm (3.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Roermond	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Arnsberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	76.0 mm (3.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Sankarankoil	India	Record daily precipitation	165.1 mm (6.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Winterswijk	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Muenster	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Brocken	Germany	Record daily precipitation	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Kerkwerve	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Oudenbosch	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Wisley	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Durham	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Helmond	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bedford 2 SE	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Clausthal-Zellerfeld	Germany	Record daily precipitation	47.6 mm (1.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Sulur	India	Record daily precipitation	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Vouziers	France	Record daily precipitation	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Bedford 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge Niab	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Malvern	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	34.9 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Aachen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Godegard	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ashland	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nebo	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Emerald Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Forbes (Camp Street)	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	3.2 C (37.8 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Coimbatore	India	Record daily precipitation	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Mohawk	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Arnhem	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Gardiner	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Brockton	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Nossen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
De Bilt	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Haverhill	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Jim Thorpe	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Vernon	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Halle	Germany	Record daily precipitation	18.1 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Artern	Germany	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Zerbst	Germany	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pointe Au Pere	Canada	Record daily precipitation	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bad Lauchstadt	Germany	Record daily precipitation	16.4 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Doberlug-Kirchhain	Germany	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wittenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	23.7 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Magdeburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Scheveningen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aschersleben	Germany	Record daily precipitation	22.5 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nes Pa Hedmark	Norway	Record snow depth	5.0 cm (2.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Putten (Gld)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stockholm	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Leipzig-Schkeuditz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Berlin-Dahlem (Lfag)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lindenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hoofddorp	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rangia	India	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Darlington Wwtp	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hay River	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-15.6 C (3.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

285 records

Records set or tied on 3 November 1940 by type: Highest daily maximum 60, Lowest daily maximum 7, Highest daily minimum 85, Lowest daily minimum 11, Heaviest daily rainfall 118, Heaviest daily snowfall 3, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 3 November 1940 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	60
Lowest daily maximum	7
Highest daily minimum	85
Lowest daily minimum	11
Heaviest daily rainfall	118
Heaviest daily snowfall	3
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 3 November 1940 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 17, daily 266.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

217 broken records

Margins by which the 217 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 140.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

3 November 1940

Top 20 records on 3 November 1940 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
3 November 1940	Uccle, BE	monthly rain	60.1 mm (2.4 in)	24.7 mm (1.0 in)	16 years	60 of 100 (Major)
3 November 1940	Lakeview 2 NNW, US	daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	48 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Oxford, GB	daily rain	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	8.0 mm (0.31 in)	104 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Altastenberg, DE	monthly rain	86.6 mm (3.4 in)	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	0 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Roermond, NL	monthly rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	8.6 mm (0.34 in)	62 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Arnsberg, DE	monthly rain	76.0 mm (3.0 in)	13.3 mm (0.5 in)	49 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Sankarankoil, IN	all-time rain	165.1 mm (6.5 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	22 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Winterswijk, NL	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	17 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Muenster, DE	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	15 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Brocken, DE	daily rain	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	44.8 mm (1.8 in)	15 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Kerkwerve, NL	monthly rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	7.0 mm (0.28 in)	61 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Oudenbosch, NL	monthly rain	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	10 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Wisley, GB	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	24 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Durham, US	daily rain	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	20 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Helmond, NL	all-time rain	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	23 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Bedford 2 SE, US	monthly snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	7.7 cm (3.0 in)	2 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Clausthal-Zellerfeld, DE	daily rain	47.6 mm (1.9 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	15 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Sulur, IN	daily rain	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	38 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
3 November 1940	Vouziers, FR	daily rain	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	5.9 mm (0.23 in)	49 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
3 November 1940	Bedford 2 SE, US	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	15 years	31 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

1821 to 1940

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1821 to 1940. 1940 had 285 records.

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

Records on 11-03 in each year
Year	Records
1821	2
1828	1
1835	1
1837	1
1844	1
1845	1
1851	1
1857	1
1858	7
1862	1
1864	1
1875	5
1879	3
1880	1
1881	1
1882	1
1883	1
1885	2
1886	1
1888	2
1889	1
1891	1
1892	1
1893	1
1894	5
1895	1
1896	8
1897	3
1898	6
1899	10
1900	6
1901	6
1902	5
1903	19
1904	22
1905	11
1906	13
1907	28
1908	19
1909	17
1910	21
1911	39
1912	112
1913	35
1914	41
1915	19
1916	22
1917	36
1918	16
1919	74
1920	38
1921	35
1922	85
1923	123
1924	136
1925	107
1926	188
1927	343
1928	236
1929	352
1930	154
1931	279
1932	466
1933	398
1934	571
1935	968
1936	1,217
1937	309
1938	1,019
1939	584
1940	285
1941	214
1942	303
1943	172
1944	498
1945	333
1946	1,017
1947	457
1948	416
1949	565
1950	482
1951	2,288
1952	404
1953	351
1954	693
1955	522
1956	781
1957	453
1958	274
1959	472
1960	239
1961	1,007
1962	438
1963	271
1964	719
1965	522
1966	1,373
1967	588
1968	471
1969	568
1970	551
1971	666
1972	636
1973	903
1974	929
1975	1,066
1976	719
1977	767
1978	1,197
1979	630
1980	1,031
1981	876
1982	826
1983	1,254
1984	624
1985	725
1986	491
1987	1,148
1988	915
1989	615
1990	1,114
1991	3,969
1992	1,158
1993	653
1994	1,227
1995	1,078
1996	1,152
1997	818
1998	789
1999	808
2000	851
2001	587
2002	1,376
2003	1,914
2004	1,356
2005	1,576
2006	1,065
2007	642
2008	1,011
2009	688
2010	718
2011	765
2012	605
2013	515
2014	639
2015	1,123
2016	941
2017	871
2018	405
2019	303
2020	1,688
2021	352
2022	869
2023	714
2024	703
2025	525

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Data for records on 1940-11-03: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.

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	201
20 to 40	10
40 to 60	4
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1