Weather Records on 11 January 1941

348 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 11 January 1941. Highest significance: Tortosa - Observatorio del Ebr, ES.

Key Facts for 11 January 1941

On 11 January 1941, 348 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
232 were record highs and 28 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 12 monthly and 335 daily.
Tortosa - Observatorio del Ebr set a monthly record daily precipitation of 76.0 mm (3.0 in) on 11 January 1941.
Across 158 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 516 records.

Record Map

348 stations

348 station records on 11 January 1941 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 11 January 1941: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Tortosa - Observatorio del Ebr	Spain	Record daily precipitation	76.0 mm (3.0 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Coloso	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Mayaguez City	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record snow depth	165.0 cm (65.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Bad Blankenburg	Germany	Record snow depth	34.0 cm (13.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record snow depth	64.0 cm (25.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Plauen	Germany	Record snow depth	55.0 cm (21.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Oak Park Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	143.5 mm (5.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Redesdale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Snowflake	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Intake	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Round Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Olympia Priest Pt Park	United States	Record high maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Gorlitz	Germany	Record snow depth	32.0 cm (12.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record snow depth	40.0 cm (15.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Balfes Creek Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Artesia 6S	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record snow depth	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Karlsruhe	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-18.2 C (-0.8 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Tangorin	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Vashon Island	United States	Record high maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Malvern Hills	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Tularosa	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Stamford Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bierbank	Australia	Record daily precipitation	100.3 mm (3.9 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Jena Sternwarte	Germany	Record snow depth	28.0 cm (11.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Coimbra	Portugal	Record low minimum temperature	-1.6 C (29.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Longreach Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Nurnberg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-21.1 C (-6.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-17.5 C (0.5 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Globe Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Sedro-Woolley	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Yarronvale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cordillo Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jundah Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Haliyal	India	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ust Tzilma	Russia	Record daily precipitation	5.9 mm (0.23 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ancho	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Birdsville Police Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Marree Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Stanton	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Achinsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	3.9 mm (0.15 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Agricultural College	United States	Record daily precipitation	8.6 mm (0.34 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Canobie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Torrens Creek Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ilfracombe Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Quatsino	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Greiz-Dolau	Germany	Record snow depth	34.0 cm (13.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Weissenburg	Germany	Record snow depth	23.0 cm (9.1 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Saint Johns	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Big Creek	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Jamkhed	India	Record daily precipitation	3.3 mm (0.13 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Springerville	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Visalia	United States	Record high maximum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Lexington	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Dickinson Exp STN	United States	Record high maximum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Carlton Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Clermont Sirius St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Bimerah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Barkerville	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	0.6 C (33.1 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

348 records

Records set or tied on 11 January 1941 by type: Highest daily maximum 189, Lowest daily maximum 16, Highest daily minimum 43, Lowest daily minimum 12, Heaviest daily rainfall 70, Heaviest daily snowfall 5, Deepest snow cover 13.

Records on 11 January 1941 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	189
Lowest daily maximum	16
Highest daily minimum	43
Lowest daily minimum	12
Heaviest daily rainfall	70
Heaviest daily snowfall	5
Deepest snow cover	13

Records on 11 January 1941 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 12, daily 335.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

280 broken records

Margins by which the 280 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 670.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

11 January 1941

Top 20 records on 11 January 1941 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
11 January 1941	Tortosa - Observatorio del Ebr, ES	monthly rain	76.0 mm (3.0 in)	33.4 mm (1.3 in)	29 years	61 of 100 (Major)
11 January 1941	Coloso, PR	daily rain	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	33 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Mayaguez City, PR	monthly rain	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	21.0 mm (0.8 in)	38 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Altastenberg, DE	daily snow depth	165.0 cm (65.0 in)	67.0 cm (26.4 in)	45 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Bad Blankenburg, DE	daily snow depth	34.0 cm (13.4 in)	31.0 cm (12.2 in)	1 year	46 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Chemnitz, DE	daily snow depth	64.0 cm (25.2 in)	44.0 cm (17.3 in)	1 year	46 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Plauen, DE	daily snow depth	55.0 cm (21.7 in)	32.0 cm (12.6 in)	1 year	44 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Oak Park Station, AU	all-time rain	143.5 mm (5.6 in)	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	24 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Redesdale, AU	daily rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	37 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Snowflake, US	monthly rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	4 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
11 January 1941	Intake, US	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	21 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Round Hill, AU	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	43 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Olympia Priest Pt Park, US	daily high max	13.3 C (55.9 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	56 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Gorlitz, DE	daily snow depth	32.0 cm (12.6 in)	10.0 cm (3.9 in)	45 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Heinersreuth-Vollhof, DE	daily snow depth	40.0 cm (15.7 in)	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	17 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Balfes Creek Post Office, AU	daily rain	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	41 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Artesia 6S, US	monthly rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	2 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	daily snow depth	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	7.0 cm (2.8 in)	29 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Karlsruhe, DE	daily low min	-18.2 C (-0.8 F)	1.2 C (2.2 F)	64 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
11 January 1941	Tangorin, AU	daily rain	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	23 years	26 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 1941

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1941. 1941 had 348 records.

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

Records on 01-11 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1803	2
1840	1
1851	1
1853	1
1858	1
1862	1
1863	1
1864	1
1871	1
1873	3
1876	1
1877	3
1878	1
1879	4
1880	1
1881	1
1883	1
1884	1
1885	1
1888	2
1889	4
1890	1
1891	6
1892	3
1893	1
1894	2
1895	1
1896	8
1897	14
1898	5
1899	3
1900	8
1901	6
1902	6
1903	15
1904	3
1905	10
1906	4
1907	9
1908	7
1909	28
1910	50
1911	48
1912	47
1913	32
1914	41
1915	26
1916	79
1917	107
1918	208
1919	17
1920	101
1921	65
1922	131
1923	106
1924	367
1925	116
1926	102
1927	278
1928	589
1929	112
1930	186
1931	115
1932	180
1933	239
1934	192
1935	163
1936	475
1937	325
1938	192
1939	370
1940	419
1941	348
1942	687
1943	206
1944	109
1945	624
1946	325
1947	259
1948	342
1949	970
1950	420
1951	325
1952	214
1953	797
1954	526
1955	214
1956	594
1957	506
1958	344
1959	439
1960	548
1961	414
1962	2,062
1963	1,600
1964	248
1965	431
1966	246
1967	412
1968	1,103
1969	511
1970	539
1971	871
1972	1,400
1973	675
1974	1,878
1975	2,114
1976	685
1977	1,319
1978	654
1979	1,379
1980	1,319
1981	959
1982	2,363
1983	1,486
1984	828
1985	699
1986	873
1987	1,598
1988	1,065
1989	836
1990	1,459
1991	1,469
1992	718
1993	1,883
1994	667
1995	1,297
1996	1,366
1997	1,558
1998	1,165
1999	923
2000	1,122
2001	778
2002	970
2003	752
2004	848
2005	1,539
2006	1,096
2007	994
2008	1,019
2009	682
2010	1,093
2011	1,709
2012	881
2013	1,468
2014	684
2015	533
2016	555
2017	1,124
2018	1,027
2019	345
2020	1,617
2021	702
2022	295
2023	676
2024	614
2025	806
2026	499

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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 100	274
100 to 200	2
200 to 300	0
300 to 400	2
400 to 500	1
500 to 600	0
600 to 700	1