Weather Records on 26 February 1941

302 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 26 February 1941. Highest significance: Palanpur, IN.

Key Facts for 26 February 1941

On 26 February 1941, 302 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
11 were record highs and 30 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 24 monthly and 278 daily.
Palanpur set a monthly record daily precipitation of 96.5 mm (3.8 in) on 26 February 1941.
Across 163 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 495 records.

Record Map

302 stations

302 station records on 26 February 1941 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 26 February 1941: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Palanpur	India	Record daily precipitation	96.5 mm (3.8 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Ballidu	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Idar	India	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kaliakheri	India	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Prince Rupert	Canada	Record daily snowfall	26.7 cm (10.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Yeola	India	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Larned	United States	Record snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Dungarpur	India	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kokardine	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Durham	United Kingdom	Record low minimum temperature	-10.0 C (14.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Nimach	India	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Manohar Thana	India	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kherwara	India	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Satna	India	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Tamia	India	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Nandgaon	India	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Gorlitz	Germany	Record snow depth	32.0 cm (12.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Brumado	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Dhulia	India	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Edalabad	India	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Deesa	India	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Condamine Plains	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Harrington (Oxley Anchorage Ca	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Torungen Fyr	Norway	Record low minimum temperature	-17.1 C (1.2 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Mileura	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Cruz	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Albion	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Atkinson 3SW	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bhadgaon	India	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Jeanerette 5 NW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Dharni	India	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Banswara	India	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Guna	India	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Udaipur	India	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sakri	India	Record daily precipitation	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pachora	India	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Raver	India	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Telhara	India	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tendukhera	India	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yaval	India	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Burhanpur Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Garhi	India	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Birtle	Canada	Record daily precipitation	3.3 mm (0.13 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hoshangabad	India	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ratlam	India	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Malkapur	India	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Southern Cross	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bakani (Rallai)	India	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cunyu Shearing Shed	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sagar	India	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nandura	India	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jalgaon	India	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pinsk	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Neemuch	India	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Birtle	Canada	Record daily snowfall	3.3 cm (1.3 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rahapur	India	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Godhra	India	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Darbys Falls (Riverslea)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Himatnagar	India	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Erandol	India	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

302 records

Records set or tied on 26 February 1941 by type: Highest daily maximum 5, Lowest daily maximum 11, Highest daily minimum 6, Lowest daily minimum 19, Heaviest daily rainfall 224, Heaviest daily snowfall 25, Deepest snow cover 12.

Records on 26 February 1941 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	5
Lowest daily maximum	11
Highest daily minimum	6
Lowest daily minimum	19
Heaviest daily rainfall	224
Heaviest daily snowfall	25
Deepest snow cover	12

Records on 26 February 1941 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 24, daily 278.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

274 broken records

Margins by which the 274 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

26 February 1941

Top 20 records on 26 February 1941 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
26 February 1941	Palanpur, IN	monthly rain	96.5 mm (3.8 in)	61.4 mm (2.4 in)	35 years	64 of 100 (Major)
26 February 1941	Ballidu, AU	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	26 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
26 February 1941	Idar, IN	monthly rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	34 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
26 February 1941	Kaliakheri, IN	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	32 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
26 February 1941	Prince Rupert, CA	daily snowfall	26.7 cm (10.5 in)	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	29 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
26 February 1941	Yeola, IN	monthly rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	34 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
26 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)
26 February 1941	Dungarpur, IN	monthly rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	26 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
26 February 1941	Kokardine, AU	daily rain	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	26 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
26 February 1941	Durham, GB	daily low min	-10.0 C (14.0 F)	5.6 C (10.1 F)	44 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
26 February 1941	Nimach, IN	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	2 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Manohar Thana, IN	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	8 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Kherwara, IN	monthly rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	34 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Satna, IN	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	4 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Tamia, IN	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	26 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Nandgaon, IN	monthly rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	24 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Gorlitz, DE	daily snow depth	32.0 cm (12.6 in)	7.0 cm (2.8 in)	45 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Brumado, BR	daily rain	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	27 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Dhulia, IN	monthly rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	23 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
26 February 1941	Edalabad, IN	monthly rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	9.2 mm (0.36 in)	13 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 302 records.

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

Records on 02-26 in each year
Year	Records
1794	2
1800	1
1803	1
1806	1
1808	2
1814	3
1815	1
1827	2
1847	1
1855	1
1858	3
1861	1
1862	1
1868	3
1869	1
1872	1
1874	1
1875	2
1877	2
1878	1
1879	1
1880	1
1882	4
1883	1
1885	1
1886	1
1887	1
1888	5
1889	1
1890	3
1891	3
1894	1
1895	4
1896	4
1897	10
1898	5
1899	10
1900	13
1901	4
1902	11
1903	2
1904	17
1905	3
1906	8
1907	16
1908	11
1909	26
1910	16
1911	22
1912	33
1913	8
1914	40
1915	26
1916	44
1917	55
1918	26
1919	95
1920	73
1921	91
1922	47
1923	80
1924	125
1925	59
1926	121
1927	78
1928	232
1929	455
1930	400
1931	169
1932	782
1933	380
1934	1,091
1935	295
1936	529
1937	329
1938	349
1939	842
1940	370
1941	302
1942	294
1943	128
1944	998
1945	566
1946	595
1947	538
1948	498
1949	255
1950	658
1951	818
1952	305
1953	198
1954	440
1955	716
1956	385
1957	849
1958	941
1959	188
1960	1,068
1961	515
1962	1,516
1963	1,010
1964	269
1965	536
1966	483
1967	846
1968	471
1969	578
1970	416
1971	780
1972	491
1973	336
1974	494
1975	483
1976	1,389
1977	925
1978	619
1979	990
1980	712
1981	1,093
1982	855
1983	721
1984	654
1985	465
1986	2,189
1987	1,686
1988	673
1989	1,283
1990	1,683
1991	619
1992	1,142
1993	1,909
1994	1,004
1995	1,210
1996	1,639
1997	1,289
1998	1,734
1999	650
2000	2,064
2001	848
2002	1,372
2003	1,498
2004	993
2005	645
2006	607
2007	780
2008	964
2009	1,036
2010	1,202
2011	1,573
2012	408
2013	1,277
2014	715
2015	1,363
2016	645
2017	486
2018	1,228
2019	1,754
2020	587
2021	589
2022	583
2023	572
2024	1,016
2025	429
2026	1,194

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Data for records on 1941-02-26: 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	232
20 to 40	32
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	0
140 to 160	2