Weather Records on 11 November 1952

356 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 11 November 1952. Highest significance: Princetown, AU.

Key Facts for 11 November 1952

On 11 November 1952, 356 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
66 were record highs and 122 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 4 monthly and 352 daily.
Princetown set a daily record precipitation of 26.7 mm (1.1 in) on 11 November 1952.
Across 161 earlier years (1800 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 498 records.

Record Map

356 stations

356 station records on 11 November 1952 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 11 November 1952: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Princetown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Chapple Vale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Burragate Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Lakes Entrance Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Brocken	Germany	Record snow depth	69.0 cm (27.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Nelligen (Thule Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Buchan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kahoma Intake 374	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Tirrengower	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Nguiu	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Tilba Tilba	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Zugspitze	Germany	Record snow depth	400.0 cm (157.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Mahackala	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	13.0 C (55.4 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
New Market	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Weeaproinah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Krugersdorp	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
St Andrews	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	1.7 C (35.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Huichapan	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Candelo Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Cobargo Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Irkutsk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-14.8 C (5.4 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Timovskoe	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-15.1 C (4.8 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Wyndham Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Astana	Kazakhstan	Record low maximum temperature	-23.8 C (-10.8 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Phillipsburg	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-6.7 C (19.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Gayndah Post Office	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	10.4 C (50.7 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Surgut	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-34.7 C (-30.5 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Tatarsk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-23.4 C (-10.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Spearfish	United States	Record high minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Pahala 21	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Darwin Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Blagovescensk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-16.2 C (2.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-16.2 C (2.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Flemington 5 NNW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-7.8 C (18.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bucyrus	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-8.9 C (16.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Richland	United States	Record high maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bathurst Gaol	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Dawson	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Hillsdown	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Colchester 2 W	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-7.2 C (19.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Obsidian 3 SSE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Crownpoint	United States	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Vysnij Volocek	Russia	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Woolsthorpe	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Fairy (Griffiths Island)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hawkesdale (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Kosciusko (Hotel Koscius	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Darlington (Ware Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hobart (Waterworks Reserve)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
New Bern 3 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bairnsdale Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nullawarre	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Carrick (Oaks Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kargopol	Russia	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Johanna Glen	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Silvan State School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wilsons Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hooghly	India	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Walterboro 1 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Falfurrias	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

356 records

Records set or tied on 11 November 1952 by type: Highest daily maximum 26, Lowest daily maximum 34, Highest daily minimum 40, Lowest daily minimum 88, Heaviest daily rainfall 157, Heaviest daily snowfall 4, Deepest snow cover 7.

Records on 11 November 1952 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	26
Lowest daily maximum	34
Highest daily minimum	40
Lowest daily minimum	88
Heaviest daily rainfall	157
Heaviest daily snowfall	4
Deepest snow cover	7

Records on 11 November 1952 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 4, daily 352.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

285 broken records

Margins by which the 285 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 950.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

11 November 1952

Top 20 records on 11 November 1952 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
11 November 1952	Princetown, AU	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	51 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Chapple Vale, AU	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	23 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Burragate Post Office, AU	daily rain	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	23 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Lakes Entrance Post Office, AU	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	68 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Brocken, DE	daily snow depth	69.0 cm (27.2 in)	44.0 cm (17.3 in)	30 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Nelligen (Thule Road), AU	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	48 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Buchan, AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	68 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Kahoma Intake 374, US	daily rain	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	50.1 mm (2.0 in)	24 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
11 November 1952	Tirrengower, AU	daily rain	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	15.8 mm (0.6 in)	3 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Nguiu, AU	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	36 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Tilba Tilba, AU	daily rain	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	17 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Zugspitze, DE	daily snow depth	400.0 cm (157.5 in)	95.0 cm (37.4 in)	40 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Mahackala, RU	daily high min	13.0 C (55.4 F)	1.8 C (3.2 F)	68 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	New Market, ZA	daily rain	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	46 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Weeaproinah, AU	daily rain	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	16 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Krugersdorp, ZA	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	29 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	St Andrews, CA	daily low max	1.7 C (35.1 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	61 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Huichapan, MX	daily high min	13.3 C (55.9 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	49 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Candelo Post Office, AU	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	3.0 mm (0.12 in)	60 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
11 November 1952	Cobargo Post Office, AU	daily rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	12.5 mm (0.5 in)	34 years	26 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

1800 to 1952

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1800 to 1952. 1952 had 356 records.

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

Records on 11-11 in each year
Year	Records
1800	1
1811	2
1813	1
1815	1
1835	1
1837	1
1846	1
1848	1
1849	1
1858	2
1864	2
1866	1
1868	1
1873	1
1875	2
1876	2
1877	2
1878	1
1879	2
1881	3
1882	2
1883	3
1884	1
1886	2
1887	2
1888	3
1890	4
1891	3
1892	2
1893	1
1894	3
1895	13
1896	4
1897	5
1898	5
1899	9
1900	6
1901	11
1902	1
1903	7
1904	13
1905	6
1906	9
1907	10
1908	12
1909	26
1910	31
1911	35
1912	17
1913	49
1914	54
1915	34
1916	72
1917	31
1918	25
1919	144
1920	118
1921	129
1922	25
1923	61
1924	343
1925	87
1926	368
1927	365
1928	88
1929	297
1930	202
1931	365
1932	252
1933	391
1934	216
1935	761
1936	479
1937	256
1938	250
1939	198
1940	873
1941	291
1942	235
1943	260
1944	333
1945	693
1946	811
1947	599
1948	305
1949	932
1950	1,035
1951	248
1952	356
1953	396
1954	543
1955	855
1956	587
1957	404
1958	206
1959	496
1960	404
1961	354
1962	324
1963	369
1964	782
1965	471
1966	769
1967	421
1968	737
1969	554
1970	1,330
1971	677
1972	423
1973	963
1974	540
1975	597
1976	644
1977	843
1978	1,558
1979	892
1980	854
1981	809
1982	1,507
1983	1,027
1984	742
1985	1,803
1986	2,470
1987	1,673
1988	685
1989	1,161
1990	1,012
1991	1,307
1992	1,418
1993	840
1994	734
1995	2,065
1996	1,159
1997	1,456
1998	1,442
1999	1,138
2000	1,623
2001	718
2002	1,553
2003	652
2004	1,069
2005	1,076
2006	1,228
2007	686
2008	950
2009	1,072
2010	1,110
2011	621
2012	1,455
2013	426
2014	828
2015	796
2016	766
2017	690
2018	967
2019	905
2020	1,558
2021	805
2022	1,583
2023	409
2024	487
2025	1,123

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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 200	283
200 to 400	0
400 to 600	1
600 to 800	0
800 to 1000	1