Weather Records on 21 March 1941

311 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 21 March 1941. Highest significance: Beeac (Post Office), AU.

Key Facts for 21 March 1941

On 21 March 1941, 311 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
26 were record highs and 23 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 9 monthly and 302 daily.
Beeac (Post Office) set a monthly record daily precipitation of 61.0 mm (2.4 in) on 21 March 1941.
Across 157 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 484 records.

Record Map

311 stations

311 station records on 21 March 1941 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 21 March 1941: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Beeac (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Silverspur	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Victoria River Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	98.3 mm (3.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Heywood Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Hughenden Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Kargil	India	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Wallangarra Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Roy	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Umea	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Prairie Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Port Gibson 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Hughenden Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Springhurst	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Alexandria	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Drift Sands (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Logan	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Milawa Brown Bros	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Uanda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bright Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Branxholm (Stoke Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Morangarell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Brid Farm	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
St Helens Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Corona	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Torrens Creek Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Fingal (Legge Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Goulds Country Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Clayoquot	Canada	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Vicksburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.9 mm (3.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Tenterfield (Federation Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Pierson	Canada	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Dynevor Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Wangaratta	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Glenelg	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Surat	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Drake (Village Resource Centre	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Hall (Lochleigh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Waycross 4 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Minot Exp STN	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Kynnersley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Molka (Lowana)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Dublin	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Coomrith	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Berthong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Boulia Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Boxwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Myrtleford Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Fish Creek (Hoddle Range)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Cape Grim (Woolnorth)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Westbury (Valley View)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
St Marys (Clive Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Moola Bulla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Katandra North	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Kynuna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Goulburn River @ Shepparton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
St Patricks River (Targa Farm)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Tower Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Marion 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Alderley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

311 records

Records set or tied on 21 March 1941 by type: Highest daily maximum 9, Lowest daily maximum 13, Highest daily minimum 17, Lowest daily minimum 10, Heaviest daily rainfall 248, Heaviest daily snowfall 11, Deepest snow cover 3.

Records on 21 March 1941 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	9
Lowest daily maximum	13
Highest daily minimum	17
Lowest daily minimum	10
Heaviest daily rainfall	248
Heaviest daily snowfall	11
Deepest snow cover	3

Records on 21 March 1941 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 9, daily 302.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

279 broken records

Margins by which the 279 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

21 March 1941

Top 20 records on 21 March 1941 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
21 March 1941	Beeac (Post Office), AU	monthly rain	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	12 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Silverspur, AU	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse, AU	monthly rain	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	14.4 mm (0.6 in)	63 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Victoria River Downs, AU	daily rain	98.3 mm (3.9 in)	87.4 mm (3.4 in)	8 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Heywood Post Office, AU	daily rain	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	6 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Hughenden Station, AU	daily rain	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	43 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Kargil, IN	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	83.6 mm (3.3 in)	8 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Wallangarra Post Office, AU	daily rain	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	34 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Roy, US	monthly rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	22 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Umea, SE	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	36 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Prairie Post Office, AU	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	32 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Port Gibson 1 NE, US	daily rain	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	38 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Hughenden Post Office, AU	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	50 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Springhurst, AU	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	15 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Alexandria, AU	daily rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	36 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Drift Sands (Bos), ZA	daily rain	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	36 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Logan, US	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	18 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Milawa Brown Bros, AU	monthly rain	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	35 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Uanda, AU	daily rain	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	40 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1941	Bright Post Office, AU	daily rain	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	40 years	33 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

1797 to 1941

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1941. 1941 had 311 records.

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

Records on 03-21 in each year
Year	Records
1797	2
1805	1
1806	1
1822	1
1830	1
1836	1
1837	1
1845	1
1846	1
1850	1
1852	2
1857	1
1865	7
1874	1
1877	1
1880	1
1881	1
1883	2
1884	1
1885	5
1886	2
1888	1
1890	3
1892	1
1893	1
1894	1
1895	1
1896	2
1897	2
1898	3
1899	4
1900	4
1901	9
1902	18
1903	23
1904	17
1905	6
1906	3
1907	14
1908	3
1909	11
1910	10
1911	10
1912	36
1913	97
1914	71
1915	27
1916	44
1917	43
1918	43
1919	29
1920	90
1921	96
1922	50
1923	72
1924	96
1925	141
1926	282
1927	179
1928	293
1929	104
1930	99
1931	638
1932	305
1933	235
1934	114
1935	675
1936	225
1937	172
1938	783
1939	280
1940	366
1941	311
1942	330
1943	217
1944	556
1945	294
1946	570
1947	192
1948	948
1949	330
1950	398
1951	779
1952	689
1953	342
1954	211
1955	1,124
1956	686
1957	373
1958	619
1959	230
1960	892
1961	268
1962	548
1963	298
1964	333
1965	1,961
1966	464
1967	487
1968	798
1969	219
1970	612
1971	358
1972	519
1973	385
1974	1,097
1975	751
1976	710
1977	376
1978	838
1979	656
1980	775
1981	676
1982	850
1983	1,673
1984	835
1985	503
1986	1,170
1987	948
1988	1,155
1989	1,396
1990	1,380
1991	1,446
1992	877
1993	687
1994	684
1995	1,141
1996	1,119
1997	1,670
1998	935
1999	1,044
2000	802
2001	1,342
2002	1,593
2003	1,073
2004	1,511
2005	649
2006	1,417
2007	1,220
2008	734
2009	558
2010	1,134
2011	1,451
2012	2,854
2013	727
2014	639
2015	568
2016	553
2017	1,117
2018	809
2019	649
2020	445
2021	489
2022	615
2023	815
2024	432
2025	845
2026	2,614

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Data for records on 1941-03-21: 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 2026-10-14 (14 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	230
20 to 40	33
40 to 60	10
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1
140 to 160	1