Weather Records on 12 January 1943

440 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 January 1943. Highest significance: Chandur Bazar, IN.

Key Facts for 12 January 1943

On 12 January 1943, 440 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
44 were record highs and 30 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 2 monthly and 438 daily.
Chandur Bazar set a daily record precipitation of 37.3 mm (1.5 in) on 12 January 1943.
Across 156 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 518 records.

Record Map

440 stations

440 station records on 12 January 1943 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 January 1943: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Chandur Bazar	India	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Eureka	United States	Record snow depth	48.3 cm (19.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Dehri	India	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Chandur Railway	India	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Vaduj	India	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sarita 7 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Colagaon	India	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Aberdeen Rd (Sar)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Amraoti	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Baramulla	India	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mirpur	Pakistan	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Cheviot Fells	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Port Alfred	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Smithfield (Mun)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Sandvig	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-9.0 C (15.8 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Zugspitze	Germany	Record snow depth	490.0 cm (192.9 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Waren	Germany	Record snow depth	23.0 cm (9.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Ponce 4 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high maximum temperature	34.4 C (93.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Orebro	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-25.5 C (-13.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Makaweli 965	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Orebro	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-16.0 C (3.2 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Mana 1026	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Caveside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bano	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Espanola	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Ewa Plantation 741	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Haina 214	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.0 C (86.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Arno Bay	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tezpur	India	Record daily precipitation	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stokes	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Karanjia	India	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Talegaon	India	Record daily precipitation	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gargoti	India	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dahiwadi	India	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Lincoln (Big Swamp)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.4 mm (0.29 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jalgaon	India	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yardley Chase	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Marseille Obs. Palais-Lonchamp	France	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Shegaon	India	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Warooka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wychitella South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lohar-Daga	India	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Seoni	India	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kaliakheri	India	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tumby Bay	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ardrossan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Maitland (Weetulta)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Penneshaw 2	Australia	Record daily precipitation	1.5 mm (0.06 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Khamgaon	India	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gadhinglaj	India	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Brinkworth (Anama Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.1 mm (0.32 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Corny Point	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.6 mm (0.34 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Victoria	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Clinton (Yararoo)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stirling	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Milang	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Laen	Australia	Record daily precipitation	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wooroonook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Shahpur	India	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Akola	India	Record daily precipitation	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

440 records

Records set or tied on 12 January 1943 by type: Highest daily maximum 32, Lowest daily maximum 22, Highest daily minimum 12, Lowest daily minimum 8, Heaviest daily rainfall 351, Heaviest daily snowfall 3, Deepest snow cover 12.

Records on 12 January 1943 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	32
Lowest daily maximum	22
Highest daily minimum	12
Lowest daily minimum	8
Heaviest daily rainfall	351
Heaviest daily snowfall	3
Deepest snow cover	12

Records on 12 January 1943 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 2, daily 438.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

400 broken records

Margins by which the 400 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 1050.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 January 1943

Top 20 records on 12 January 1943 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 January 1943	Chandur Bazar, IN	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	41 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Eureka, US	daily snow depth	48.3 cm (19.0 in)	28.0 cm (11.0 in)	5 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Dehri, IN	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	35 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Chandur Railway, IN	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	41 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Vaduj, IN	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	41 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Sarita 7 E, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	9 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Colagaon, IN	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	35 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Aberdeen Rd (Sar), ZA	daily rain	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	24.7 mm (1.0 in)	27 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 1943	Amraoti, IN	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	8 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Baramulla, IN	daily rain	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	12 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Mirpur, PK	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	41 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Cheviot Fells, ZA	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	8 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Port Alfred, ZA	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	51 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Smithfield (Mun), ZA	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	12.0 mm (0.5 in)	52 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Sandvig, DK	daily low min	-9.0 C (15.8 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	63 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Zugspitze, DE	daily snow depth	490.0 cm (192.9 in)	105.0 cm (41.3 in)	36 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Waren, DE	daily snow depth	23.0 cm (9.1 in)	5.0 cm (2.0 in)	47 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Ponce 4 E, PR	daily high max	34.4 C (93.9 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	16 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Orebro, SE	daily low min	-25.5 C (-13.9 F)	4.5 C (8.1 F)	40 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
12 January 1943	Makaweli 965, US	monthly high min	22.2 C (72.0 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	33 years	25 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 1943

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1943. 1943 had 440 records.

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

Records on 01-12 in each year
Year	Records
1794	2
1812	1
1830	2
1840	1
1849	1
1851	1
1856	2
1863	2
1867	1
1871	3
1873	2
1874	1
1875	2
1876	2
1877	3
1879	1
1881	1
1882	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	3
1889	1
1890	1
1893	4
1894	1
1895	4
1896	3
1897	4
1898	7
1899	9
1900	3
1901	8
1902	6
1903	13
1904	3
1905	15
1906	4
1907	12
1908	29
1909	19
1910	43
1911	70
1912	55
1913	19
1914	67
1915	39
1916	47
1917	118
1918	148
1919	24
1920	73
1921	31
1922	71
1923	65
1924	87
1925	141
1926	65
1927	144
1928	629
1929	103
1930	185
1931	142
1932	475
1933	91
1934	222
1935	299
1936	334
1937	260
1938	179
1939	296
1940	315
1941	246
1942	327
1943	440
1944	119
1945	490
1946	288
1947	258
1948	330
1949	510
1950	399
1951	368
1952	268
1953	1,207
1954	427
1955	302
1956	503
1957	376
1958	410
1959	568
1960	1,365
1961	291
1962	1,397
1963	2,005
1964	635
1965	346
1966	485
1967	436
1968	1,207
1969	514
1970	527
1971	763
1972	1,289
1973	564
1974	1,057
1975	1,205
1976	986
1977	1,078
1978	711
1979	1,295
1980	1,442
1981	1,508
1982	1,614
1983	1,115
1984	596
1985	896
1986	690
1987	2,007
1988	841
1989	1,019
1990	637
1991	1,324
1992	774
1993	1,923
1994	942
1995	1,688
1996	1,596
1997	1,957
1998	1,077
1999	871
2000	1,061
2001	575
2002	1,011
2003	737
2004	651
2005	1,918
2006	1,117
2007	1,410
2008	715
2009	839
2010	1,044
2011	1,714
2012	810
2013	1,481
2014	515
2015	743
2016	400
2017	1,358
2018	1,198
2019	919
2020	1,310
2021	618
2022	570
2023	830
2024	1,068
2025	543
2026	630

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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 200	398
200 to 400	1
400 to 600	0
600 to 800	0
800 to 1000	0
1000 to 1200	1