Weather Records on 31 January 1941

354 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 31 January 1941. Highest significance: Bettiah, IN.

Key Facts for 31 January 1941

On 31 January 1941, 354 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
93 were record highs and 42 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 9 monthly and 345 daily.
Bettiah set a daily record precipitation of 32.5 mm (1.3 in) on 31 January 1941.
Across 162 earlier years (1800 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 503 records.

Record Map

354 stations

354 station records on 31 January 1941 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 31 January 1941: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bettiah	India	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Dunmurray	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Panskura	India	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Balasore	India	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Basudevpur (Eram)	India	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tanda	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Alur	India	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Koilkuntla	India	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Onda	India	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Chas	India	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bakhtiarpur	India	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Annur	India	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hiranpur	India	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Groenfontein "Montagu"	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gannapan	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Jamui	India	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Budge Budge	India	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Uluberia	India	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Rosera	India	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Dalmau	India	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Khutauna	India	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Jalalpur	India	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Cofimvaba (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wichita Falls Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Mahbubnagar	India	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Bhadrak	India	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Alice Springs Post Office	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Vestervig	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-13.9 C (7.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Vosburg	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Vanersborg	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-11.0 C (12.2 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Waurika	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Sabinal	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Gidhour	India	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Vryburg (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Brandon Cda	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Vanersborg	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-19.5 C (-3.1 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Orebro	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-12.9 C (8.8 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Cheesman	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Warren	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Brisbane Regional Office	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	17.3 C (63.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Nanaimo	Canada	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Vastervik	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-19.5 C (-3.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomsbury Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Ponce 4 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-20.8 C (-5.4 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Dillon 1 E	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
St Albans	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Wrixum/Fohr	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-11.9 C (10.6 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Amarpara	India	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Namdalseid	Norway	Record snow depth	54.0 cm (21.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Polson	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Springbok	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Colorado City	United States	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Barh	India	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Matjiesfontein (Sar)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Childress 3 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kopati(Kaupati)	India	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Faizabad	India	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Howrah	India	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

354 records

Records set or tied on 31 January 1941 by type: Highest daily maximum 42, Lowest daily maximum 23, Highest daily minimum 51, Lowest daily minimum 19, Heaviest daily rainfall 208, Heaviest daily snowfall 5, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 31 January 1941 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	42
Lowest daily maximum	23
Highest daily minimum	51
Lowest daily minimum	19
Heaviest daily rainfall	208
Heaviest daily snowfall	5
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 31 January 1941 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 9, daily 345.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

309 broken records

Margins by which the 309 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 110.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

31 January 1941

Top 20 records on 31 January 1941 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
31 January 1941	Bettiah, IN	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	33 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Dunmurray, ZA	daily rain	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	21 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Panskura, IN	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	22 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Balasore, IN	daily rain	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	15 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Basudevpur (Eram), IN	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	13 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Tanda, IN	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	11 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Alur, IN	monthly rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	15 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Koilkuntla, IN	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	40 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Onda, IN	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	40 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Chas, IN	monthly rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Bakhtiarpur, IN	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	15 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Annur, IN	daily rain	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	34 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Hiranpur, IN	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	7 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Groenfontein "Montagu", ZA	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	34 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Gannapan, ZA	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	2 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
31 January 1941	Jamui, IN	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	7 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
31 January 1941	Budge Budge, IN	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	13 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
31 January 1941	Uluberia, IN	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	15 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
31 January 1941	Rosera, IN	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	15 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
31 January 1941	Dalmau, IN	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	11 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

1800 to 1941

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1800 to 1941. 1941 had 354 records.

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

Records on 01-31 in each year
Year	Records
1800	1
1801	1
1830	2
1843	1
1846	1
1850	1
1852	1
1853	2
1854	2
1862	1
1863	2
1868	1
1869	2
1870	1
1873	1
1875	1
1877	1
1878	2
1880	1
1882	1
1883	1
1884	5
1885	1
1886	2
1887	1
1888	3
1889	3
1890	2
1892	1
1893	9
1894	1
1895	3
1896	1
1897	2
1898	7
1899	7
1900	5
1901	4
1902	10
1903	3
1904	6
1905	21
1906	17
1907	8
1908	36
1909	27
1910	10
1911	52
1912	20
1913	49
1914	36
1915	115
1916	94
1917	190
1918	150
1919	14
1920	113
1921	29
1922	55
1923	152
1924	203
1925	134
1926	204
1927	64
1928	47
1929	263
1930	83
1931	326
1932	153
1933	212
1934	597
1935	431
1936	830
1937	309
1938	362
1939	323
1940	361
1941	354
1942	273
1943	698
1944	232
1945	943
1946	359
1947	788
1948	600
1949	1,058
1950	1,022
1951	1,192
1952	519
1953	879
1954	744
1955	383
1956	434
1957	563
1958	692
1959	237
1960	349
1961	475
1962	686
1963	928
1964	402
1965	696
1966	1,295
1967	637
1968	524
1969	703
1970	209
1971	1,506
1972	426
1973	714
1974	1,128
1975	1,110
1976	569
1977	781
1978	844
1979	1,995
1980	757
1981	687
1982	1,287
1983	1,078
1984	610
1985	1,725
1986	616
1987	787
1988	1,582
1989	1,718
1990	821
1991	617
1992	1,573
1993	856
1994	1,049
1995	1,122
1996	1,594
1997	898
1998	641
1999	938
2000	1,115
2001	1,061
2002	3,080
2003	1,281
2004	1,392
2005	767
2006	722
2007	713
2008	704
2009	552
2010	1,311
2011	741
2012	1,037
2013	1,397
2014	986
2015	663
2016	1,147
2017	575
2018	564
2019	1,426
2020	1,031
2021	504
2022	255
2023	907
2024	1,117
2025	827
2026	839

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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	272
20 to 40	28
40 to 60	7
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	1