Weather Records on 3 August 1951

547 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 3 August 1951. Highest significance: Young Post Office, AU.

Key Facts for 3 August 1951

On 3 August 1951, 547 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
168 were record highs and 70 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 22 monthly and 523 daily.
Young Post Office set a daily record precipitation of 54.9 mm (2.2 in) on 3 August 1951.
Across 156 earlier years (1815 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 463 records.

Record Map

547 stations

547 station records on 3 August 1951 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 3 August 1951: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Young Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Mount McDonald	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Cowra Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Ft Collins	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.7 mm (3.1 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Boulder	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.7 mm (3.1 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Morgan	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Winkelman 6 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Yass (Derringullen)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Parkes (Macarthur Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Longmont 2 ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bassett Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Lucknow	India	Record daily precipitation	120.4 mm (4.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Tres Piedras	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Yass (Linton Hostel)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Oberon (Springbank)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Salida	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Alpine	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Cowra Ag Research Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Skjomen	Norway	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Orange 3	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Buena Vista 2S	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Hecla	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Carcoar	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
O'Connell (Stratford)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Bungendore Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Idaho Springs	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Lyndhurst	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Murringo Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Grand Falls	Canada	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Bogan Gate Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Gunnedah Pool	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Gooloogong Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Runnymede	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Golspie (Ayrston)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Eugowra Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Greenethorpe (Iandra)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Fort Macleod	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Truxton Canyon	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bigga (Woolbrook)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kiandra Chalet	Australia	Record daily precipitation	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Andenes	Norway	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Tuena	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Lupton 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Mtn Dell Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Trundle (Brookview St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Cooranbong (Avondale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Valley	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Edgewater	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Donaldsonville 4 SW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bathurst Agricultural Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Perthville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Canowindra (Canowindra Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Buckeye	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Casa Grande	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Intake	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Manildra (George St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Binalong Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Donnacona	Canada	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bamberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sunny Corner (Snow Line)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

547 records

Records set or tied on 3 August 1951 by type: Highest daily maximum 69, Lowest daily maximum 46, Highest daily minimum 99, Lowest daily minimum 24, Heaviest daily rainfall 309.

Records on 3 August 1951 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	69
Lowest daily maximum	46
Highest daily minimum	99
Lowest daily minimum	24
Heaviest daily rainfall	309
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 3 August 1951 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 22, daily 523.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

457 broken records

Margins by which the 457 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 68.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

3 August 1951

Top 20 records on 3 August 1951 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
3 August 1951	Young Post Office, AU	daily rain	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	77 years	70 of 100 (Major)
3 August 1951	Mount McDonald, AU	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	64 years	62 of 100 (Major)
3 August 1951	Cowra Post Office, AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	64 years	61 of 100 (Major)
3 August 1951	Ft Collins, US	monthly rain	77.7 mm (3.1 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	18 years	60 of 100 (Major)
3 August 1951	Boulder, US	monthly rain	77.7 mm (3.1 in)	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	14 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Morgan, US	daily rain	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	34.1 mm (1.3 in)	44 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Winkelman 6 S, US	daily rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	50 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Yass (Derringullen), AU	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	29 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Parkes (Macarthur Street), AU	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	44 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Longmont 2 ESE, US	daily rain	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	17 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Bassett Downs, AU	monthly rain	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	33 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Lucknow, IN	daily rain	120.4 mm (4.7 in)	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	36 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Tres Piedras, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	29.9 mm (1.2 in)	22 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Yass (Linton Hostel), AU	daily rain	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	12 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Oberon (Springbank), AU	daily rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	59 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Salida, US	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	14.8 mm (0.6 in)	49 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Alpine, US	daily rain	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	22.8 mm (0.9 in)	28 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Cowra Ag Research Station, AU	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	44 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Skjomen, NO	daily rain	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	22.5 mm (0.9 in)	8 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1951	Orange 3, AU	daily rain	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	44 years	45 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

1815 to 1951

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1815 to 1951. 1951 had 547 records.

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

Records on 08-03 in each year
Year	Records
1815	1
1827	1
1834	2
1835	1
1838	1
1841	1
1847	1
1849	1
1854	1
1855	2
1856	1
1859	1
1868	1
1872	1
1875	1
1876	1
1877	4
1879	3
1880	1
1885	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	4
1890	2
1891	1
1894	1
1895	11
1896	3
1897	1
1898	4
1899	6
1900	2
1902	6
1903	12
1904	6
1905	7
1906	20
1907	31
1908	23
1909	21
1910	14
1911	31
1912	68
1913	21
1914	24
1915	49
1916	55
1917	72
1918	71
1919	34
1920	56
1921	181
1922	33
1923	149
1924	165
1925	99
1926	300
1927	315
1928	332
1929	207
1930	816
1931	313
1932	319
1933	304
1934	434
1935	520
1936	555
1937	350
1938	542
1939	866
1940	292
1941	305
1942	328
1943	521
1944	530
1945	259
1946	316
1947	586
1948	414
1949	415
1950	445
1951	547
1952	326
1953	617
1954	401
1955	713
1956	640
1957	378
1958	389
1959	360
1960	482
1961	620
1962	359
1963	352
1964	891
1965	679
1966	444
1967	327
1968	368
1969	625
1970	394
1971	891
1972	757
1973	724
1974	906
1975	978
1976	892
1977	544
1978	832
1979	486
1980	800
1981	579
1982	778
1983	807
1984	925
1985	691
1986	750
1987	1,105
1988	1,046
1989	824
1990	845
1991	705
1992	869
1993	1,033
1994	973
1995	1,216
1996	965
1997	709
1998	1,406
1999	893
2000	869
2001	1,021
2002	1,000
2003	1,504
2004	980
2005	912
2006	1,514
2007	750
2008	926
2009	746
2010	1,392
2011	1,518
2012	685
2013	535
2014	961
2015	615
2016	640
2017	1,144
2018	1,039
2019	451
2020	708
2021	841
2022	654
2023	1,044
2024	1,401
2025	929
2026	1,242

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Data for records on 1951-08-03: 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	374
10 to 20	52
20 to 30	22
30 to 40	8
40 to 50	0
50 to 60	0
60 to 70	1