Weather Records on 25 October 1950

408 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 25 October 1950. Highest significance: Richmond Post Office, AU.

Key Facts for 25 October 1950

On 25 October 1950, 408 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
146 were record highs and 29 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 6 monthly and 402 daily.
Richmond Post Office set a daily record precipitation of 50.8 mm (2.0 in) on 25 October 1950.
Across 163 earlier years (1800 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 465 records.

Record Map

408 stations

408 station records on 25 October 1950 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 25 October 1950: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Richmond Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Glenelg Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Fulham Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Kidston Gold Mine	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Mitcham Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
North Adelaide	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Waterloo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Rosewood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Yorketown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Penneshaw	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Coromandel Valley (Branden)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Afton Downs Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Adelaide (Seaton)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hahndorf	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Big Creek	Canada	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Belair (Kalyra)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Moselle Downs Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Daly Waters	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Clarendon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Stirling	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Prairie Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Berkeley	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Adelaide (Morphett Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgewater	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Argyle Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Flora Valley Old	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Normanville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Woodbine Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Fort Simpson	Canada	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Ruby Plains	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Barker	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Second Valley (Poolamacca)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
The Rock (Bullenbong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Leopold Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Wilburra Downs Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Terry Hie Hie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kaslo	Canada	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Budapest	Hungary	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cloverdale	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Helena	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Wyndham Port	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Nairne	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Upper Lake 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Maxwelton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Healdsburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Lissadell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
McCloud	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Fossil Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Biniguy (Springfield)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Willsons River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Charleville Post Office	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	20.8 C (69.4 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Wallabadah (Gaspard)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Moyhu	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Dullstroom (Sar)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Redding Fire STN 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Angleton 2 W	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Victor Harbor (Rivington Grang	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Hughenden Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Prestwood Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Las Plumas	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

408 records

Records set or tied on 25 October 1950 by type: Highest daily maximum 68, Lowest daily maximum 16, Highest daily minimum 78, Lowest daily minimum 13, Heaviest daily rainfall 230, Heaviest daily snowfall 3.

Records on 25 October 1950 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	68
Lowest daily maximum	16
Highest daily minimum	78
Lowest daily minimum	13
Heaviest daily rainfall	230
Heaviest daily snowfall	3
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 25 October 1950 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 6, daily 402.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

354 broken records

Margins by which the 354 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 102.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

25 October 1950

Top 20 records on 25 October 1950 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
25 October 1950	Richmond Post Office, AU	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	40 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Glenelg Post Office, AU	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	57 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Fulham Park, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	50 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Kidston Gold Mine, AU	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Mitcham Post Office, AU	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	55 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	North Adelaide, AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	57 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Waterloo, AU	monthly rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	27 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Rosewood, AU	monthly rain	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	32 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Yorketown, AU	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	16 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Penneshaw, AU	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	18.1 mm (0.7 in)	16 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Coromandel Valley (Branden), AU	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	13.9 mm (0.5 in)	55 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Afton Downs Station, AU	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	51 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Adelaide (Seaton), AU	daily rain	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	16 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Hahndorf, AU	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	57 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Big Creek, CA	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	32 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Belair (Kalyra), AU	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	17 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Moselle Downs Station, AU	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	33 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Daly Waters, AU	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	63 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Clarendon, AU	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	10.6 mm (0.4 in)	55 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
25 October 1950	Stirling, AU	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	55 years	40 of 100 (Notable)

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

1800 to 1950

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1800 to 1950. 1950 had 408 records.

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

Records on 10-25 in each year
Year	Records
1800	1
1802	1
1831	1
1834	1
1840	1
1841	1
1845	1
1850	1
1853	1
1856	1
1857	1
1859	1
1861	2
1864	1
1866	2
1869	1
1870	1
1871	1
1874	3
1875	2
1876	1
1877	1
1879	2
1881	1
1883	2
1885	1
1887	3
1888	4
1890	11
1891	4
1892	3
1893	2
1894	6
1895	2
1896	1
1897	1
1898	1
1899	8
1900	3
1901	3
1902	13
1903	4
1904	10
1905	20
1906	18
1907	14
1908	32
1909	19
1910	15
1911	28
1912	18
1913	51
1914	33
1915	50
1916	19
1917	29
1918	36
1919	73
1920	158
1921	47
1922	210
1923	117
1924	122
1925	297
1926	391
1927	358
1928	104
1929	262
1930	260
1931	317
1932	380
1933	433
1934	983
1935	302
1936	205
1937	328
1938	461
1939	934
1940	491
1941	323
1942	383
1943	321
1944	273
1945	437
1946	460
1947	668
1948	169
1949	761
1950	408
1951	493
1952	331
1953	278
1954	687
1955	573
1956	501
1957	907
1958	285
1959	904
1960	439
1961	237
1962	937
1963	1,115
1964	245
1965	529
1966	347
1967	493
1968	376
1969	462
1970	693
1971	996
1972	409
1973	339
1974	470
1975	1,326
1976	832
1977	824
1978	460
1979	720
1980	967
1981	1,200
1982	1,107
1983	484
1984	1,135
1985	595
1986	665
1987	572
1988	594
1989	1,543
1990	554
1991	1,413
1992	1,208
1993	569
1994	610
1995	667
1996	1,016
1997	2,375
1998	903
1999	1,110
2000	1,469
2001	1,338
2002	1,779
2003	1,215
2004	1,107
2005	1,695
2006	1,165
2007	1,289
2008	722
2009	576
2010	1,240
2011	748
2012	1,267
2013	656
2014	945
2015	499
2016	569
2017	737
2018	402
2019	1,000
2020	3,067
2021	1,081
2022	778
2023	1,254
2024	724
2025	505

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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	332
20 to 40	19
40 to 60	1
60 to 80	0
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	1