Weather Records on 29 October 1951

203 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 29 October 1951. Highest significance: Anticosti SW Point, CA.

Key Facts for 29 October 1951

On 29 October 1951, 203 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
27 were record highs and 15 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 8 monthly and 195 daily.
Anticosti SW Point set a monthly record daily snowfall of 22.9 cm (9.0 in) on 29 October 1951.
Across 156 earlier years (1837 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 471 records.

Record Map

203 stations

203 station records on 29 October 1951 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 29 October 1951: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Anticosti SW Point	Canada	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Fredericton Unb	Canada	Record daily snowfall	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Browning	United States	Record daily snowfall	33.0 cm (13.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Babb 6 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Lihue 1020	United States	Record daily precipitation	114.8 mm (4.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Augusta	United States	Record daily snowfall	23.1 cm (9.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Gaspe	Canada	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kiolakaa 7	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gibson Dam	United States	Record daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Coleman	Canada	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Schreiber	Canada	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Coleman	Canada	Record daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Chitradurga	India	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
New Orleans Audubon	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Valier	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Browning	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Pretoria-New Cemetry	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Pahala 21	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Choteau	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Sandbaken	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Goldbutte 7 N	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Poplar 2 E	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Williston Sloulin Fld	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.6 cm (2.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Halaula 1110	United States	Record daily precipitation	142.2 mm (5.6 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Claresholm Meadow Creek	Canada	Record daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Nashlyn	Canada	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Denton	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Kumargram	India	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Ewa Plantation 741	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Kualapuu 534	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Luz (Estacao)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Babb 6 NE	United States	Record daily snowfall	44.5 cm (17.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Lyndon	Canada	Record daily snowfall	21.6 cm (8.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Dunkirk 19NNE	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Port Jervis	United States	Record low maximum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Caldwell	Canada	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Cap Madeleine	Canada	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Attur	India	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ekaterinburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Havre Wb City	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dunkirk 19NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cut Bank AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mahukona 159	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Srinagar	India	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cheljabinsk-Balandi	Russia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Garden City	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kurgan	Russia	Record daily precipitation	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Augusta	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Parker	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nowshera	India	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cascade 5 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Williston Sloulin Fld	United States	Record snow depth	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Claresholm Meadow Creek	Canada	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lyndon	Canada	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nashlyn	Canada	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Choteau	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Denton	United States	Record daily precipitation	4.6 mm (0.18 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jetmore	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Conrad	United States	Record daily precipitation	7.9 mm (0.31 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Itatira	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	4.8 mm (0.19 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

203 records

Records set or tied on 29 October 1951 by type: Highest daily maximum 15, Lowest daily maximum 10, Highest daily minimum 12, Lowest daily minimum 5, Heaviest daily rainfall 114, Heaviest daily snowfall 46, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 29 October 1951 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	15
Lowest daily maximum	10
Highest daily minimum	12
Lowest daily minimum	5
Heaviest daily rainfall	114
Heaviest daily snowfall	46
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 29 October 1951 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 8, daily 195.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

174 broken records

Margins by which the 174 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 228.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

29 October 1951

Top 20 records on 29 October 1951 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
29 October 1951	Anticosti SW Point, CA	monthly snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	26 years	62 of 100 (Major)
29 October 1951	Fredericton Unb, CA	daily snowfall	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	67 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Browning, US	daily snowfall	33.0 cm (13.0 in)	22.8 cm (9.0 in)	38 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Babb 6 NE, US	daily rain	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	8 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Lihue 1020, US	daily rain	114.8 mm (4.5 in)	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	9 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Augusta, US	daily snowfall	23.1 cm (9.1 in)	18.0 cm (7.1 in)	38 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Gaspe, CA	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	55 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Kiolakaa 7, US	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	24 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Gibson Dam, US	daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	17.7 cm (7.0 in)	32 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Coleman, CA	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	18.2 mm (0.7 in)	37 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Schreiber, CA	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	9.2 cm (3.6 in)	36 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Coleman, CA	daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	22.8 cm (9.0 in)	17 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Chitradurga, IN	daily rain	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	43.0 mm (1.7 in)	30 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	New Orleans Audubon, US	daily high min	26.1 C (79.0 F)	6.7 C (12.1 F)	54 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 1951	Valier, US	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	16 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
29 October 1951	Browning, US	monthly rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	1.5 mm (0.06 in)	52 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
29 October 1951	Pretoria-New Cemetry, ZA	daily rain	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
29 October 1951	Pahala 21, US	daily low max	23.3 C (73.9 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	32 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
29 October 1951	Choteau, US	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	16 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
29 October 1951	Sandbaken, ZA	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	8 years	28 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

1837 to 1951

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1837 to 1951. 1951 had 203 records.

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

Records on 10-29 in each year
Year	Records
1837	1
1846	1
1849	1
1854	1
1856	1
1865	1
1869	3
1870	1
1871	1
1872	1
1873	3
1874	1
1877	1
1878	2
1880	1
1882	1
1883	2
1885	3
1886	1
1887	2
1888	4
1889	1
1890	11
1891	3
1892	3
1894	1
1895	1
1896	4
1897	2
1898	5
1899	8
1900	3
1901	7
1902	10
1903	4
1904	4
1905	9
1906	16
1907	15
1908	22
1909	22
1910	79
1911	10
1912	32
1913	67
1914	13
1915	47
1916	34
1917	74
1918	97
1919	53
1920	39
1921	49
1922	150
1923	85
1924	120
1925	698
1926	120
1927	350
1928	125
1929	226
1930	333
1931	199
1932	195
1933	301
1934	169
1935	553
1936	313
1937	919
1938	199
1939	159
1940	484
1941	284
1942	408
1943	256
1944	427
1945	471
1946	1,140
1947	323
1948	281
1949	434
1950	794
1951	203
1952	759
1953	529
1954	316
1955	477
1956	440
1957	379
1958	346
1959	740
1960	282
1961	792
1962	536
1963	422
1964	371
1965	575
1966	264
1967	382
1968	686
1969	679
1970	630
1971	1,773
1972	954
1973	602
1974	958
1975	387
1976	1,006
1977	474
1978	297
1979	488
1980	936
1981	474
1982	655
1983	287
1984	1,540
1985	874
1986	361
1987	940
1988	729
1989	1,033
1990	677
1991	2,609
1992	1,082
1993	868
1994	715
1995	693
1996	1,169
1997	1,155
1998	900
1999	791
2000	1,238
2001	965
2002	1,139
2003	1,406
2004	1,562
2005	974
2006	1,097
2007	1,120
2008	1,547
2009	1,250
2010	547
2011	852
2012	1,389
2013	774
2014	585
2015	553
2016	965
2017	979
2018	550
2019	1,902
2020	1,228
2021	812
2022	1,034
2023	1,264
2024	1,067
2025	419

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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 50	150
50 to 100	15
100 to 150	4
150 to 200	3
200 to 250	2