Weather Records on 10 January 1948

264 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 10 January 1948. Highest significance: Buxton, GB.

Key Facts for 10 January 1948

On 10 January 1948, 264 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
164 were record highs and 20 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 13 monthly and 250 daily.
Buxton set a daily record precipitation of 44.3 mm (1.7 in) on 10 January 1948.
Across 164 earlier years (1799 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 514 records.

Record Map

264 stations

264 station records on 10 January 1948 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 10 January 1948: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Buxton	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	44.3 mm (1.7 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Hull	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Oak Hills Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	119.1 mm (4.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Cardwell Marine Pde	Australia	Record daily precipitation	274.1 mm (10.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Sydney (Observatory Hill)	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Morgantown 1	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Stehekin 4 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Victoria Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	181.9 mm (7.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Beeton	Canada	Record daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Kamennaja-Step	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	5.8 C (42.4 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Astrakan	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	9.5 C (49.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Storlien	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-19.4 C (-2.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Henichesk	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	3.5 C (38.3 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Hollister 1 SW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Brisbane Regional Office	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	16.5 C (61.7 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Aktobe	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	0.6 C (33.1 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Wonderboom	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Henichesk	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	12.6 C (54.7 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Blue Hill Coop	United States	Record snow depth	63.5 cm (25.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
World Trade Ctr	United States	Record snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Manti	United States	Record high maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Ellenview	Australia	Record daily precipitation	90.7 mm (3.6 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Halifax Macrossan St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	152.9 mm (6.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Atyrau	Kazakhstan	Record high maximum temperature	6.5 C (43.7 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Graz	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	9.9 C (49.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Elatma	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	2.3 C (36.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Poretskoye	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-0.8 C (30.6 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Sfax El-Maou	Tunisia	Record low minimum temperature	3.6 C (38.5 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Deer Lodge	United States	Record high maximum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Newport	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Ny City Cntrl Park	United States	Record snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Uralsk	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	0.7 C (33.3 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Elatma	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Astrakan	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	5.2 C (41.4 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Lugansk	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	12.1 C (53.8 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Thorne	United States	Record high maximum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Greenville Kgvl Radio	United States	Record high minimum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Philippi	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Olands Sodra Udde	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lost Creek Aeneas	United States	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ljungby	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	17.1 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kalmar_D	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge Niab	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aktobe	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kargopol	Russia	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Skegness	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Malin Head	Ireland	Record daily precipitation	18.9 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Shenkursk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	12.1 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Syktyvkar	Russia	Record daily precipitation	6.7 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kappawanta	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aralskoe More	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Orenburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rothamsted	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Macknade Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	166.1 mm (6.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Goldstream Lake	Canada	Record daily snowfall	16.5 cm (6.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ona	Norway	Record low minimum temperature	-6.9 C (19.6 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Albacete Los Llanos	Spain	Record high minimum temperature	7.5 C (45.5 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Karlstad	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-14.8 C (5.4 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Poltava	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	5.3 C (41.5 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

264 records

Records set or tied on 10 January 1948 by type: Highest daily maximum 109, Lowest daily maximum 5, Highest daily minimum 55, Lowest daily minimum 15, Heaviest daily rainfall 56, Heaviest daily snowfall 12, Deepest snow cover 12.

Records on 10 January 1948 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	109
Lowest daily maximum	5
Highest daily minimum	55
Lowest daily minimum	15
Heaviest daily rainfall	56
Heaviest daily snowfall	12
Deepest snow cover	12

Records on 10 January 1948 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 13, daily 250.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

217 broken records

Margins by which the 217 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 97.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

10 January 1948

Top 20 records on 10 January 1948 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
10 January 1948	Buxton, GB	daily rain	44.3 mm (1.7 in)	28.3 mm (1.1 in)	17 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
10 January 1948	Hull, GB	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	8 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
10 January 1948	Oak Hills Station, AU	daily rain	119.1 mm (4.7 in)	86.1 mm (3.4 in)	6 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
10 January 1948	Cardwell Marine Pde, AU	daily rain	274.1 mm (10.8 in)	97.6 mm (3.8 in)	18 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Sydney (Observatory Hill), AU	daily low min	13.3 C (55.9 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	67 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Morgantown 1, US	daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	3.8 cm (1.5 in)	52 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Stehekin 4 NW, US	daily rain	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	24 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Victoria Sugar Mill, AU	daily rain	181.9 mm (7.2 in)	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	20 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Beeton, CA	daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	8.1 cm (3.2 in)	29 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Kamennaja-Step, RU	monthly high max	5.8 C (42.4 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	32 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Astrakan, RU	daily high max	9.5 C (49.1 F)	5.5 C (9.9 F)	33 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Storlien, SE	daily low max	-19.4 C (-2.9 F)	5.4 C (9.7 F)	33 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Henichesk, UA	daily high min	3.5 C (38.3 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	60 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Hollister 1 SW, US	daily high max	21.7 C (71.1 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	51 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Brisbane Regional Office, AU	daily low min	16.5 C (61.7 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	59 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Aktobe, KZ	monthly high min	0.6 C (33.1 F)	0.1 C (0.2 F)	35 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Wonderboom, ZA	daily rain	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	25 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Henichesk, UA	daily high max	12.6 C (54.7 F)	5.5 C (9.9 F)	29 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	Blue Hill Coop, US	daily snow depth	63.5 cm (25.0 in)	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	44 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
10 January 1948	World Trade Ctr, US	daily snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	54 years	24 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

1799 to 1948

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1799 to 1948. 1948 had 264 records.

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

Records on 01-10 in each year
Year	Records
1799	1
1820	1
1830	1
1832	1
1841	1
1842	1
1849	1
1851	2
1853	1
1854	1
1857	1
1858	3
1862	1
1863	1
1865	1
1866	1
1868	1
1871	1
1873	5
1876	3
1877	1
1878	2
1880	1
1881	1
1882	2
1883	1
1885	4
1887	3
1888	2
1890	3
1891	2
1892	2
1893	2
1895	2
1896	2
1897	8
1898	3
1899	4
1900	4
1901	2
1902	6
1903	8
1904	4
1905	6
1906	5
1907	5
1908	13
1909	11
1910	24
1911	13
1912	40
1913	12
1914	28
1915	12
1916	41
1917	59
1918	75
1919	27
1920	40
1921	172
1922	48
1923	72
1924	363
1925	114
1926	100
1927	138
1928	517
1929	277
1930	487
1931	92
1932	202
1933	331
1934	228
1935	722
1936	664
1937	775
1938	252
1939	766
1940	502
1941	327
1942	1,097
1943	226
1944	264
1945	635
1946	335
1947	234
1948	264
1949	1,569
1950	756
1951	249
1952	316
1953	702
1954	433
1955	341
1956	583
1957	1,245
1958	403
1959	632
1960	498
1961	268
1962	2,191
1963	876
1964	439
1965	566
1966	184
1967	424
1968	1,072
1969	451
1970	1,072
1971	717
1972	1,177
1973	825
1974	1,685
1975	1,765
1976	566
1977	1,803
1978	1,102
1979	788
1980	940
1981	673
1982	2,368
1983	1,270
1984	543
1985	1,038
1986	815
1987	1,279
1988	1,041
1989	1,034
1990	1,785
1991	1,788
1992	1,263
1993	1,499
1994	716
1995	1,291
1996	1,455
1997	1,286
1998	1,104
1999	745
2000	1,042
2001	793
2002	1,631
2003	674
2004	849
2005	1,414
2006	978
2007	1,196
2008	739
2009	875
2010	1,446
2011	1,718
2012	761
2013	831
2014	415
2015	1,089
2016	868
2017	872
2018	664
2019	272
2020	976
2021	429
2022	298
2023	569
2024	1,071
2025	827
2026	918

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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	192
20 to 40	13
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	4