Weather Records on 27 May 1949

366 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 27 May 1949. Highest significance: Akalkot, IN.

Key Facts for 27 May 1949

On 27 May 1949, 366 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
43 were record highs and 169 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 363 daily.
Akalkot set a daily record precipitation of 32.3 mm (1.3 in) on 27 May 1949.
Across 164 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 418 records.

Record Map

366 stations

366 station records on 27 May 1949 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 27 May 1949: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Akalkot	India	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Fossil Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Antenor Navarro	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	88.2 mm (3.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Areia (Ufpb)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kalvan	India	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Governador Dix-Sept Rosado	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	58.6 mm (2.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Belleville	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bradford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Goderich	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Marseille Obs. Palais-Lonchamp	France	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Tamia	India	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pianco	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Matheran	India	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Devrukh	India	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Trimbak	India	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Pembroke Eddy Match	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ricardo	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.9 mm (3.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Pedras de Abelhas (Dnocs)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Trenton 2	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
New Burnside	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Indiana	United States	Record low maximum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Patan	India	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Boulder	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Atkinson 3SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Dhar	India	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cidra 1 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Olekminsk	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	11.5 C (52.7 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Stornoway Airport	United Kingdom	Record low minimum temperature	0.6 C (33.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Livingston	United States	Record high minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Staunton Wtp	United States	Record low minimum temperature	3.3 C (37.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Chita	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	11.0 C (51.8 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Lawrenceville 2 S	United States	Record low maximum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Fitzroy Crossing Comp.	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Watson	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jagadhari	India	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chita	Russia	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gogo Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kola-In-Murman	Russia	Record daily precipitation	16.7 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chindwara	India	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Margaret River Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Leopold Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Strydenberg (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Micurinsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vajda-Guba	Russia	Record daily precipitation	16.1 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Buxton	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	22.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ignacio 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ooldea Railway	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Monkira	Australia	Record daily precipitation	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sturt Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kimberley Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yeeda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Barrow Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Derby Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kandalaksa	Russia	Record daily precipitation	16.9 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ord River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Khandwa	India	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Arhangelsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Altamura	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chikhli	India	Record daily precipitation	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

366 records

Records set or tied on 27 May 1949 by type: Highest daily maximum 17, Lowest daily maximum 94, Highest daily minimum 26, Lowest daily minimum 75, Heaviest daily rainfall 154.

Records on 27 May 1949 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	17
Lowest daily maximum	94
Highest daily minimum	26
Lowest daily minimum	75
Heaviest daily rainfall	154
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 27 May 1949 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 3, daily 363.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

268 broken records

Margins by which the 268 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 59.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

27 May 1949

Top 20 records on 27 May 1949 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
27 May 1949	Akalkot, IN	daily rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	30 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Fossil Downs, AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	39 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Antenor Navarro, BR	daily rain	88.2 mm (3.5 in)	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	14 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Areia (Ufpb), BR	daily rain	72.5 mm (2.9 in)	38.2 mm (1.5 in)	38 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Kalvan, IN	daily rain	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	11 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Governador Dix-Sept Rosado, BR	daily rain	58.6 mm (2.3 in)	45.6 mm (1.8 in)	14 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Belleville, CA	daily low max	12.8 C (55.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	81 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Bradford, GB	daily rain	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	16 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Goderich, CA	daily low min	0.0 C (32.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	81 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Marseille Obs. Palais-Lonchamp, FR	monthly low min	0.0 C (32.0 F)	3.0 C (5.4 F)	39 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Tamia, IN	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	36 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
27 May 1949	Pianco, BR	daily rain	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	38 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	Matheran, IN	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	31 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	Devrukh, IN	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	20.9 mm (0.8 in)	48 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	Trimbak, IN	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	11 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	Pembroke Eddy Match, CA	daily low max	14.4 C (57.9 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	61 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	Ricardo, US	daily rain	75.9 mm (3.0 in)	59.1 mm (2.3 in)	16 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	Pedras de Abelhas (Dnocs), BR	daily rain	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	38 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	Trenton 2, US	daily low min	6.1 C (43.0 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	42 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
27 May 1949	New Burnside, US	daily low max	17.8 C (64.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	48 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

1797 to 1949

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1949. 1949 had 366 records.

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

Records on 05-27 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1817	1
1818	1
1834	2
1836	4
1839	1
1845	1
1846	1
1847	1
1849	1
1852	1
1858	1
1860	1
1863	1
1864	3
1868	4
1869	1
1874	1
1876	1
1879	3
1880	5
1881	2
1883	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	1
1888	1
1889	3
1890	5
1891	2
1892	8
1893	5
1894	13
1895	4
1896	3
1897	1
1898	3
1899	2
1900	4
1901	7
1902	12
1903	7
1904	11
1905	7
1906	28
1907	23
1908	16
1909	7
1910	31
1911	53
1912	27
1913	19
1914	92
1915	63
1916	26
1917	23
1918	39
1919	38
1920	40
1921	56
1922	36
1923	86
1924	92
1925	291
1926	107
1927	183
1928	81
1929	195
1930	99
1931	367
1932	265
1933	284
1934	393
1935	128
1936	468
1937	298
1938	492
1939	312
1940	138
1941	436
1942	657
1943	160
1944	479
1945	272
1946	424
1947	485
1948	324
1949	366
1950	697
1951	578
1952	258
1953	603
1954	367
1955	571
1956	491
1957	367
1958	619
1959	449
1960	421
1961	1,504
1962	460
1963	421
1964	317
1965	652
1966	398
1967	492
1968	605
1969	850
1970	326
1971	612
1972	508
1973	943
1974	630
1975	404
1976	589
1977	663
1978	814
1979	899
1980	644
1981	891
1982	838
1983	1,253
1984	834
1985	873
1986	696
1987	1,037
1988	777
1989	904
1990	804
1991	1,429
1992	1,413
1993	835
1994	848
1995	815
1996	1,378
1997	919
1998	1,079
1999	876
2000	1,347
2001	898
2002	511
2003	918
2004	838
2005	1,094
2006	1,171
2007	886
2008	914
2009	858
2010	955
2011	1,055
2012	1,475
2013	607
2014	835
2015	537
2016	622
2017	541
2018	1,355
2019	960
2020	906
2021	414
2022	653
2023	405
2024	904
2025	761
2026	1,185

Download the Data

Data for records on 1949-05-27: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.

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 10	229
10 to 20	27
20 to 30	3
30 to 40	4
40 to 50	2
50 to 60	3