Weather Records on 26 April 1941

229 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 26 April 1941. Highest significance: Alamogordo, US.

Key Facts for 26 April 1941

On 26 April 1941, 229 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
57 were record highs and 66 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 222 daily.
Alamogordo set a daily record precipitation of 25.1 mm (1.0 in) on 26 April 1941.
Across 166 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 446 records.

Record Map

229 stations

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

Weather records on 26 April 1941: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Alamogordo	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Orangajuli	India	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Roswell Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Buskala Rch	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Clayton Muni Air Pk	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Deming	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Ricardo	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.2 mm (3.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sabinal	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Wokha	India	Record daily precipitation	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Regensburg	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Parli	India	Record daily precipitation	75.9 mm (3.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Bell Ranch	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Pearsall	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Uvalde	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	4.6 C (40.3 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Uvalde	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Olympia Priest Pt Park	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Sarita 7 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Munchen-Nymphenburg	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	4.6 C (40.3 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Gorlitz	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Augsburg (Sankt Stephan)	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	5.1 C (41.2 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Moran India	India	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Sumner	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Beeville 5 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Burnet	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
New Braunfels	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Columbus	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Luna Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bowie	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
El Paso	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aztec Ruins Nm	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cloudcroft	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Stanton	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Escalante	United States	Record daily precipitation	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Park Rch	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Clifton	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gage	United States	Record daily precipitation	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tularosa	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Duchesne	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lordsburg 4 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Uman	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Agricultural College	United States	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bagalkot	India	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ash Fork 6 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hyde Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Camden (Brownlow Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Zametchino	Russia	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Saint Johns	United States	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Greiz-Dolau	Germany	Record daily precipitation	24.0 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yerevan	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	11.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nymagee (Pyramid)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wien	Austria	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tamluk	India	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fort McPherson	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-12.2 C (10.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pattanamphitta	India	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Namdalseid	Norway	Record snow depth	22.0 cm (8.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Braunschweig (T.H.)	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-0.5 C (31.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Ponce 4 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Walnut Grove	United States	Record daily precipitation	0.8 mm (0.03 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
McKinley	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

229 records

Records set or tied on 26 April 1941 by type: Highest daily maximum 35, Lowest daily maximum 56, Highest daily minimum 22, Lowest daily minimum 10, Heaviest daily rainfall 103, Heaviest daily snowfall 1, Deepest snow cover 2.

Records on 26 April 1941 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	35
Lowest daily maximum	56
Highest daily minimum	22
Lowest daily minimum	10
Heaviest daily rainfall	103
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	2

Records on 26 April 1941 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 7, daily 222.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

197 broken records

Margins by which the 197 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 305.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

26 April 1941

Top 20 records on 26 April 1941 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
26 April 1941	Alamogordo, US	daily rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	19 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
26 April 1941	Orangajuli, IN	daily rain	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	55.6 mm (2.2 in)	38 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
26 April 1941	Roswell Muni AP, US	daily rain	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	24 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
26 April 1941	Buskala Rch, US	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	22 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
26 April 1941	Clayton Muni Air Pk, US	daily rain	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	30 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Deming, US	monthly rain	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	4.4 mm (0.17 in)	36 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Ricardo, US	daily rain	89.2 mm (3.5 in)	63.3 mm (2.5 in)	11 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Sabinal, US	daily rain	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	16 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Wokha, IN	daily rain	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	16 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Regensburg, DE	daily low max	5.0 C (41.0 F)	4.0 C (7.2 F)	51 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Parli, IN	daily rain	75.9 mm (3.0 in)	28.9 mm (1.1 in)	28 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Bell Ranch, US	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	8 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Pearsall, US	daily rain	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	4 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Uvalde, US	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	16 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Chemnitz, DE	daily low max	4.6 C (40.3 F)	2.7 C (4.9 F)	52 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Uvalde, US	daily low max	20.0 C (68.0 F)	6.1 C (11.0 F)	30 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Olympia Priest Pt Park, US	daily high max	28.3 C (82.9 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	51 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Sarita 7 E, US	monthly rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	22 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Munchen-Nymphenburg, DE	daily low max	4.6 C (40.3 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	51 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
26 April 1941	Gorlitz, DE	daily low max	5.0 C (41.0 F)	1.9 C (3.4 F)	40 years	21 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 229 records.

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

Records on 04-26 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1796	1
1802	1
1806	2
1812	2
1817	2
1829	1
1841	1
1844	1
1850	1
1851	1
1852	1
1853	2
1854	4
1857	4
1862	4
1865	1
1866	1
1872	1
1873	1
1874	5
1875	1
1878	1
1879	1
1880	1
1881	1
1883	1
1884	1
1885	1
1887	2
1888	2
1889	1
1890	4
1891	1
1892	7
1893	2
1895	2
1896	2
1897	2
1899	7
1900	3
1901	4
1902	8
1903	13
1904	4
1905	9
1906	7
1907	28
1908	37
1909	68
1910	43
1911	27
1912	14
1913	92
1914	23
1915	81
1916	34
1917	22
1918	120
1919	105
1920	39
1921	109
1922	230
1923	115
1924	158
1925	186
1926	333
1927	139
1928	127
1929	158
1930	106
1931	386
1932	341
1933	152
1934	224
1935	225
1936	109
1937	403
1938	536
1939	320
1940	285
1941	229
1942	535
1943	315
1944	201
1945	519
1946	506
1947	354
1948	712
1949	366
1950	684
1951	346
1952	696
1953	386
1954	694
1955	755
1956	851
1957	410
1958	398
1959	426
1960	644
1961	453
1962	753
1963	546
1964	640
1965	589
1966	716
1967	913
1968	497
1969	432
1970	600
1971	872
1972	780
1973	712
1974	806
1975	933
1976	856
1977	800
1978	929
1979	874
1980	770
1981	1,030
1982	639
1983	1,396
1984	1,536
1985	938
1986	1,129
1987	1,239
1988	841
1989	1,542
1990	1,526
1991	863
1992	1,556
1993	986
1994	1,541
1995	810
1996	910
1997	1,482
1998	917
1999	660
2000	1,018
2001	1,107
2002	1,072
2003	875
2004	950
2005	672
2006	886
2007	1,042
2008	1,138
2009	1,536
2010	705
2011	1,209
2012	1,598
2013	674
2014	562
2015	625
2016	820
2017	669
2018	577
2019	669
2020	625
2021	489
2022	760
2023	567
2024	687
2025	735
2026	396

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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 50	192
50 to 100	4
100 to 150	0
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	0
300 to 350	1