Weather Records on 28 November 1942

232 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 28 November 1942. Highest significance: Sussex, CA.

Key Facts for 28 November 1942

On 28 November 1942, 232 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
63 were record highs and 28 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 229 daily.
Sussex set a daily record snowfall of 25.4 cm (10.0 in) on 28 November 1942.
Across 162 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 467 records.

Record Map

232 stations

232 station records on 28 November 1942 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 28 November 1942: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Sussex	Canada	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Mazelspoort Dam	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bloemfontein Airpor	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Klerkskraal (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Madrid	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Moncton	Canada	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Tuscola	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Estherville 4E	United States	Record daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Leroy 5 WSW	United States	Record daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Peoria City Office	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Mayaguez City	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Las Vegas	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Honomanu 450	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Narracan State School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Roodekop	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Lusk 2 SW	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Forbes (Camp Street)	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	7.9 C (46.2 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Flandreau	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Hilo 86A	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Mardan South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Yuma	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Peoria City Office	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.9 cm (2.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Caguas	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Grover 10 W	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Menasha	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Wheatland 4N	United States	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Brady Aznoe	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Madrid	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kimball 2NE	United States	Record snow depth	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Franklin	United States	Record daily snowfall	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Greeley	United States	Record daily precipitation	2.3 mm (0.09 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Julesburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
West Bend	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Emporia 1 S	United States	Record daily snowfall	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Walhalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kistwar	India	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beaconsfield Upper	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Leroy 5 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge	United States	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Shawnigan Lake	Canada	Record daily precipitation	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record daily precipitation	11.3 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Laramie	United States	Record daily snowfall	4.8 cm (1.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Inverell Comparison	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	1.7 C (35.1 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Alix	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-30.6 C (-23.1 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kasargod	India	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Saint Francis	United States	Record snow depth	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mc Cook	United States	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Faulkton	United States	Record daily precipitation	1.3 mm (0.05 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Springfield Abraham Lincoln Ca	United States	Record daily snowfall	8.1 cm (3.2 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yanrey	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Murray Bridge (Tepko)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Esquimalt	Canada	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Hillsdown	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-26.1 C (-15.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Parrsboro	Canada	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Mavelikara	India	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Denair 3 NNE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Greeley	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Pocahontas	United States	Record snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Georgetown Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	39.4 C (102.9 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Vilsandi	Estonia	Record daily precipitation	12.6 mm (0.5 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

232 records

Records set or tied on 28 November 1942 by type: Highest daily maximum 21, Lowest daily maximum 10, Highest daily minimum 42, Lowest daily minimum 18, Heaviest daily rainfall 76, Heaviest daily snowfall 48, Deepest snow cover 17.

Records on 28 November 1942 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	21
Lowest daily maximum	10
Highest daily minimum	42
Lowest daily minimum	18
Heaviest daily rainfall	76
Heaviest daily snowfall	48
Deepest snow cover	17

Records on 28 November 1942 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 3, daily 229.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

167 broken records

Margins by which the 167 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 178.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

28 November 1942

Top 20 records on 28 November 1942 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
28 November 1942	Sussex, CA	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	41 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
28 November 1942	Mazelspoort Dam, ZA	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	33 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
28 November 1942	Bloemfontein Airpor, ZA	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	30.8 mm (1.2 in)	5 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Klerkskraal (Pol), ZA	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	24 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Madrid, US	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	17 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Moncton, CA	daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	5.9 cm (2.3 in)	41 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Tuscola, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	8.2 cm (3.2 in)	27 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Estherville 4E, US	daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	24 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Leroy 5 WSW, US	daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	6.3 cm (2.5 in)	36 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Peoria City Office, US	daily snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	31 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Mayaguez City, PR	daily high min	22.2 C (72.0 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	39 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Las Vegas, US	daily high min	13.3 C (55.9 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	28 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Honomanu 450, US	daily high max	28.3 C (82.9 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	13 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Narracan State School, AU	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Roodekop, ZA	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	31 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Lusk 2 SW, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	13 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Forbes (Camp Street), AU	daily low min	7.9 C (46.2 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	54 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Flandreau, US	daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	3.9 cm (1.5 in)	36 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Hilo 86A, US	daily high max	30.6 C (87.1 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	35 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
28 November 1942	Mardan South, AU	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	39 years	22 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

1793 to 1942

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1942. 1942 had 232 records.

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

Records on 11-28 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1797	1
1807	1
1815	1
1827	1
1829	1
1831	2
1838	1
1839	1
1844	1
1849	2
1850	1
1851	1
1856	4
1857	1
1869	2
1870	1
1871	2
1872	3
1873	2
1874	2
1875	2
1878	2
1879	1
1883	2
1884	2
1887	2
1888	1
1889	2
1890	8
1892	2
1894	1
1895	2
1896	3
1897	3
1898	3
1899	3
1900	5
1901	4
1902	7
1903	25
1904	11
1905	24
1906	21
1907	10
1908	4
1909	39
1910	8
1911	62
1912	24
1913	34
1914	19
1915	33
1916	27
1917	68
1918	13
1919	31
1920	166
1921	50
1922	38
1923	77
1924	55
1925	76
1926	90
1927	545
1928	62
1929	192
1930	749
1931	143
1932	307
1933	203
1934	544
1935	257
1936	252
1937	629
1938	553
1939	240
1940	445
1941	349
1942	232
1943	143
1944	193
1945	236
1946	372
1947	201
1948	752
1949	1,211
1950	506
1951	272
1952	1,051
1953	277
1954	200
1955	1,042
1956	355
1957	240
1958	1,066
1959	730
1960	986
1961	325
1962	413
1963	246
1964	690
1965	301
1966	807
1967	421
1968	799
1969	631
1970	567
1971	500
1972	360
1973	1,483
1974	398
1975	1,069
1976	2,175
1977	1,024
1978	825
1979	536
1980	799
1981	677
1982	842
1983	1,979
1984	1,014
1985	2,376
1986	718
1987	927
1988	810
1989	809
1990	1,642
1991	782
1992	926
1993	1,290
1994	1,267
1995	963
1996	1,161
1997	1,128
1998	1,922
1999	775
2000	726
2001	1,543
2002	1,104
2003	657
2004	770
2005	1,430
2006	1,710
2007	412
2008	849
2009	609
2010	1,533
2011	1,139
2012	698
2013	946
2014	1,210
2015	986
2016	474
2017	751
2018	852
2019	1,197
2020	318
2021	1,137
2022	496
2023	592
2024	456
2025	306

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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 25	128
25 to 50	25
50 to 75	7
75 to 100	4
100 to 125	0
125 to 150	2
150 to 175	0
175 to 200	1