Weather Records on 24 February 1941

490 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 24 February 1941. Highest significance: Ft Smith, US.

Key Facts for 24 February 1941

On 24 February 1941, 490 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
53 were record highs and 70 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 483 daily.
Ft Smith set a daily record snowfall of 15.2 cm (6.0 in) on 24 February 1941.
Across 153 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 562 records.

Record Map

490 stations

490 station records on 24 February 1941 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 24 February 1941: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Ft Smith	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Holdenville 2SSE	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Larned	United States	Record snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Walhalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Fayetteville Exp STN	United States	Record daily snowfall	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
New Smyrna Beach	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Cumnock (Willow Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Sale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Myrniong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Ethel Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kingman	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Gorlitz	Germany	Record snow depth	36.0 cm (14.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mandhata	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Jefferson	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Nashlyn	Canada	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Brookings 2 NE	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Chickasha	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Seven Persons	Canada	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Stillwater 2 W	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Hillsdown	Canada	Record daily snowfall	5.6 cm (2.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Monica	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Bird Island	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Ruston la Tech	United States	Record low maximum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Chandler	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Enid	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.6 cm (2.6 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Prairie City Rs	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Flandreau	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Canadian	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cape York Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Werribee Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Brookings 2 NE	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Eagle Pass 3N	United States	Record low maximum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Vaexjoe	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	9.3 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Romsey	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Burrumbuttock (Holyrood)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kalmar_D	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bungaree (Kirks Reservoir)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Balmoral (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nashlyn	Canada	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dhrangadhra	India	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Middle Creek (Leneva)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beales Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hill City Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Adaminaby Alpine Tourist Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wickliffe	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wadhwan	India	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bajan	India	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sonkatch	India	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tularosa	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Adrian	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hillsdown	Canada	Record daily precipitation	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Seven Persons	Canada	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wrixum/Fohr	Germany	Record snow depth	8.0 cm (3.1 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Angiola	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bannockburn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lovely Banks (Reservoir)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sunbury (Salesian College )	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Parker	United States	Record daily precipitation	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Walwa	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

490 records

Records set or tied on 24 February 1941 by type: Highest daily maximum 10, Lowest daily maximum 46, Highest daily minimum 43, Lowest daily minimum 24, Heaviest daily rainfall 303, Heaviest daily snowfall 47, Deepest snow cover 17.

Records on 24 February 1941 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	10
Lowest daily maximum	46
Highest daily minimum	43
Lowest daily minimum	24
Heaviest daily rainfall	303
Heaviest daily snowfall	47
Deepest snow cover	17

Records on 24 February 1941 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 7, daily 483.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

412 broken records

Margins by which the 412 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 152.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

24 February 1941

Top 20 records on 24 February 1941 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
24 February 1941	Ft Smith, US	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	40 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
24 February 1941	Holdenville 2SSE, US	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	40 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
24 February 1941	Larned, US	daily snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	36 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
24 February 1941	Walhalla, AU	daily rain	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	44 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
24 February 1941	Fayetteville Exp STN, US	daily snowfall	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	48 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
24 February 1941	New Smyrna Beach, US	daily rain	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	39 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
24 February 1941	Cumnock (Willow Park), AU	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	15.8 mm (0.6 in)	49 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Sale, AU	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	16.7 mm (0.7 in)	52 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Myrniong, AU	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	49 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Ethel Creek, AU	daily rain	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	14 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Kingman, US	daily rain	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	8 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Gorlitz, DE	daily snow depth	36.0 cm (14.2 in)	8.0 cm (3.1 in)	45 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Mandhata, IN	monthly rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	26 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Jefferson, US	daily rain	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	17 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Nashlyn, CA	daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	30 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Brookings 2 NE, US	daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	37 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Chickasha, US	daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	40 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Seven Persons, CA	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	18 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Stillwater 2 W, US	daily snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	7.7 cm (3.0 in)	31 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
24 February 1941	Hillsdown, CA	daily snowfall	5.6 cm (2.2 in)	3.1 cm (1.2 in)	31 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 490 records.

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

Records on 02-24 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1813	1
1814	4
1836	1
1846	2
1858	2
1863	1
1867	1
1868	1
1870	1
1873	2
1875	2
1876	1
1877	2
1879	4
1881	1
1886	1
1887	2
1888	7
1889	6
1891	3
1892	2
1894	2
1896	1
1897	4
1898	10
1899	4
1900	14
1901	4
1902	7
1903	5
1904	5
1905	13
1906	33
1907	16
1908	14
1909	73
1910	25
1911	16
1912	58
1913	6
1914	26
1915	46
1916	24
1917	52
1918	50
1919	39
1920	15
1921	82
1922	54
1923	63
1924	73
1925	110
1926	166
1927	402
1928	139
1929	141
1930	1,185
1931	164
1932	226
1933	331
1934	887
1935	251
1936	514
1937	148
1938	202
1939	385
1940	279
1941	490
1942	287
1943	375
1944	463
1945	212
1946	440
1947	779
1948	299
1949	420
1950	712
1951	423
1952	535
1953	423
1954	720
1955	1,120
1956	627
1957	649
1958	866
1959	217
1960	1,145
1961	520
1962	1,412
1963	593
1964	447
1965	993
1966	637
1967	1,134
1968	734
1969	874
1970	354
1971	377
1972	753
1973	235
1974	365
1975	1,570
1976	999
1977	1,307
1978	1,061
1979	1,473
1980	466
1981	1,177
1982	898
1983	533
1984	652
1985	1,412
1986	1,309
1987	952
1988	373
1989	1,776
1990	1,969
1991	641
1992	922
1993	1,730
1994	1,070
1995	1,081
1996	1,209
1997	1,537
1998	1,459
1999	752
2000	2,155
2001	1,407
2002	883
2003	1,735
2004	980
2005	742
2006	487
2007	1,095
2008	1,060
2009	852
2010	1,527
2011	1,291
2012	838
2013	705
2014	623
2015	1,963
2016	818
2017	1,612
2018	1,356
2019	1,302
2020	697
2021	860
2022	1,808
2023	1,793
2024	417
2025	966
2026	1,107

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Data for records on 1941-02-24: 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	359
20 to 40	27
40 to 60	15
60 to 80	5
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1
140 to 160	2