Weather Records on 10 March 1947

316 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 10 March 1947. Highest significance: Wangerooge, DE.

Key Facts for 10 March 1947

On 10 March 1947, 316 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
80 were record highs and 39 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 312 daily.
Wangerooge set a monthly record daily precipitation of 32.5 mm (1.3 in) on 10 March 1947.
Across 160 earlier years (1807 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 519 records.

Record Map

316 stations

316 station records on 10 March 1947 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 10 March 1947: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Wangerooge	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Kerkwerve	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Putbus	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-15.2 C (4.6 F)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Uccle	Belgium	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Tranebjerg	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-16.5 C (2.3 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Canudos	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Vestervig	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-13.2 C (8.2 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Soldier Creek Adm Site	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Husum	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-11.3 C (11.7 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Magdeburg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-14.0 C (6.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Soldier Creek Adm Site	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Garden Valley	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Koebenhavn: Landbohojskolen-1	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-12.0 C (10.4 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Elizabethtown	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Drain	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Saibai Island	Australia	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Boras	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-22.0 C (-7.6 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Husum	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-3.1 C (26.4 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-19.9 C (-3.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Red Cloud	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tulia 6 NE	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tulia 6 NE	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Broken Bow 2 W	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Richfield	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Tribune 1W	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Oshkosh	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.7 cm (4.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Reidsville	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Nordby (Fano)	Denmark	Record low maximum temperature	-3.5 C (25.7 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Bordeaux-Merignac	France	Record high maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Inskip Inn	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.3 mm (3.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Winnemucca AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	3.3 C (37.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Bowman Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.2 mm (3.7 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Albion	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Barraba (Mount Lindsay)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Lysebotn	Norway	Record snow depth	20.0 cm (7.9 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Malmo_2	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-18.5 C (-1.3 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
De Sabla	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Montpelier Rs	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Ithaca Cornell UNIV	United States	Record snow depth	33.0 cm (13.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Moonmera	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Vanersborg	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-18.3 C (-0.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Skara 1	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-26.1 C (-15.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Cruz	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ashley	United States	Record high minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Lowestoft	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	18.4 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hoofddorp	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Arnhem	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	19.5 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Scheveningen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Oshkosh	United States	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tirrengower	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Geisenheim	Germany	Record daily precipitation	13.8 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Putten (Gld)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kustanai	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Coorabulka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	21.7 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tanbar Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Driggs	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Montcornet	France	Record daily precipitation	20.9 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Winterswijk	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

316 records

Records set or tied on 10 March 1947 by type: Highest daily maximum 13, Lowest daily maximum 15, Highest daily minimum 67, Lowest daily minimum 24, Heaviest daily rainfall 157, Heaviest daily snowfall 29, Deepest snow cover 11.

Records on 10 March 1947 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	13
Lowest daily maximum	15
Highest daily minimum	67
Lowest daily minimum	24
Heaviest daily rainfall	157
Heaviest daily snowfall	29
Deepest snow cover	11

Records on 10 March 1947 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 3, daily 312.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

266 broken records

Margins by which the 266 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 127.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

10 March 1947

Top 20 records on 10 March 1947 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
10 March 1947	Wangerooge, DE	monthly rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	11.5 mm (0.5 in)	51 years	64 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1947	Kerkwerve, NL	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	17.9 mm (0.7 in)	36 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Putbus, DE	daily low min	-15.2 C (4.6 F)	6.7 C (12.1 F)	86 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Uccle, BE	daily rain	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	36 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Tranebjerg, DK	daily low min	-16.5 C (2.3 F)	9.5 C (17.1 F)	14 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Canudos, BR	daily rain	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	34 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Vestervig, DK	daily low min	-13.2 C (8.2 F)	4.6 C (8.3 F)	60 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Soldier Creek Adm Site, US	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	45 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Husum, DE	daily low min	-11.3 C (11.7 F)	5.4 C (9.7 F)	51 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Magdeburg, DE	daily low min	-14.0 C (6.8 F)	4.5 C (8.1 F)	60 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1947	Soldier Creek Adm Site, US	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	45 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Garden Valley, US	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	0 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Koebenhavn: Landbohojskolen-1, DK	daily low min	-12.0 C (10.4 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	63 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Elizabethtown, US	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	4 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Drain, US	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	18 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Saibai Island, AU	daily rain	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	1 year	30 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Boras, SE	daily low min	-22.0 C (-7.6 F)	3.5 C (6.3 F)	60 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Husum, DE	daily low max	-3.1 C (26.4 F)	3.0 C (5.4 F)	54 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Linkoeping-Malmslaett, SE	daily low min	-19.9 C (-3.8 F)	3.4 C (6.1 F)	58 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
10 March 1947	Red Cloud, US	daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	51 years	29 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

1807 to 1947

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1807 to 1947. 1947 had 316 records.

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

Records on 03-10 in each year
Year	Records
1807	1
1809	1
1810	3
1834	1
1837	1
1845	1
1847	2
1849	1
1850	1
1854	1
1855	1
1858	2
1860	4
1862	1
1866	2
1871	2
1873	1
1874	3
1877	2
1878	3
1880	3
1881	1
1882	4
1883	3
1884	1
1886	2
1888	2
1890	1
1891	3
1892	4
1894	10
1895	1
1896	2
1897	7
1898	1
1901	12
1902	4
1903	6
1904	13
1905	4
1906	26
1907	14
1908	14
1909	16
1910	14
1911	21
1912	53
1913	78
1914	29
1915	29
1916	33
1917	36
1918	73
1919	28
1920	22
1921	65
1922	58
1923	87
1924	236
1925	265
1926	122
1927	93
1928	107
1929	407
1930	96
1931	374
1932	1,857
1933	267
1934	479
1935	338
1936	406
1937	218
1938	142
1939	497
1940	367
1941	260
1942	233
1943	490
1944	646
1945	250
1946	274
1947	316
1948	1,943
1949	511
1950	500
1951	753
1952	478
1953	355
1954	573
1955	1,308
1956	633
1957	607
1958	490
1959	256
1960	834
1961	351
1962	765
1963	470
1964	934
1965	306
1966	588
1967	850
1968	557
1969	874
1970	341
1971	533
1972	1,382
1973	1,143
1974	1,376
1975	868
1976	488
1977	1,300
1978	877
1979	538
1980	491
1981	1,178
1982	858
1983	1,014
1984	1,397
1985	758
1986	1,041
1987	595
1988	830
1989	1,846
1990	1,333
1991	406
1992	1,063
1993	753
1994	1,496
1995	1,241
1996	1,978
1997	1,360
1998	1,957
1999	759
2000	1,609
2001	882
2002	850
2003	1,137
2004	942
2005	963
2006	1,625
2007	457
2008	792
2009	1,407
2010	1,287
2011	934
2012	785
2013	937
2014	988
2015	825
2016	1,781
2017	562
2018	410
2019	1,208
2020	753
2021	1,131
2022	1,486
2023	1,139
2024	489
2025	737
2026	1,485

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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 20	236
20 to 40	15
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	4
120 to 140	2