Weather Records on 26 October 1953

449 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 26 October 1953. Highest significance: Warrinilla, AU.

Key Facts for 26 October 1953

On 26 October 1953, 449 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
61 were record highs and 48 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 4 monthly and 445 daily.
Warrinilla set a daily record precipitation of 76.2 mm (3.0 in) on 26 October 1953.
Across 157 earlier years (1816 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 483 records.

Record Map

449 stations

449 station records on 26 October 1953 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 26 October 1953: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Warrinilla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Begumpet Obsy	India	Record daily precipitation	103.1 mm (4.1 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Monierkhal	India	Record daily precipitation	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Eton Police Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Waterloo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Somerset	Australia	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
The Valley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Palmwoods Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
St George Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Sagar Island	India	Record daily precipitation	125.7 mm (4.9 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Banana Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Sandy Creek Tank	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Kommissiepoort	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Alexandria	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Coorada	Australia	Record daily precipitation	91.2 mm (3.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Reedy Creek Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Burnett Heads Niell St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Koyah	India	Record daily precipitation	104.1 mm (4.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Chinchilla Water Treatment Pla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Thiruvananthapuram	India	Record daily precipitation	185.7 mm (7.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Eumundi - Crescent Rd	Australia	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tibooburra Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Wellington	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Cameron	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Goorganga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Fairymead Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Peapalli(Pyapali)	India	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Mexia	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Cooroy Composite	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
The Grange	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Thurulgoona	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Strehla	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Springsure Comet St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Columboola	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
White Cliffs (Purnanga)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Janwada	India	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Eidsvold Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Gayndah Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cobar (Taringo Downs)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ravenswood Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Valapady	India	Record daily precipitation	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Crockett	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Maytown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Victoria Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Sarina Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Gnomery	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kottarakara	India	Record daily precipitation	118.1 mm (4.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Nacogdoches	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
San Marcos	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bollon Mary St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mascot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Vriddhachalam	India	Record daily precipitation	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Anderson	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Macknade Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Atyrau	Kazakhstan	Record low maximum temperature	0.8 C (33.4 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Buffalo 2 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Logan Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Gayndah Post Office	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	18.4 C (65.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Buderim Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Hvar	Croatia	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

449 records

Records set or tied on 26 October 1953 by type: Highest daily maximum 29, Lowest daily maximum 14, Highest daily minimum 32, Lowest daily minimum 34, Heaviest daily rainfall 340.

Records on 26 October 1953 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	29
Lowest daily maximum	14
Highest daily minimum	32
Lowest daily minimum	34
Heaviest daily rainfall	340
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 26 October 1953 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 4, daily 445.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

411 broken records

Margins by which the 411 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 101.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

26 October 1953

Top 20 records on 26 October 1953 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
26 October 1953	Warrinilla, AU	daily rain	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	44.4 mm (1.7 in)	60 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Begumpet Obsy, IN	daily rain	103.1 mm (4.1 in)	101.1 mm (4.0 in)	44 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Monierkhal, IN	daily rain	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	98.0 mm (3.9 in)	40 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Eton Police Station, AU	daily rain	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	40 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Waterloo, AU	daily rain	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	80.1 mm (3.2 in)	36 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Somerset, AU	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	31 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	The Valley, AU	daily rain	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	26 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Palmwoods Post Office, AU	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	53 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	St George Post Office, AU	daily rain	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	60 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Sagar Island, IN	daily rain	125.7 mm (4.9 in)	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	51 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Banana Post Office, AU	daily rain	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	31 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Sandy Creek Tank, AU	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	8 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Kommissiepoort, ZA	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	38 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Alexandria, US	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	36 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Coorada, AU	daily rain	91.2 mm (3.6 in)	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	20 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Reedy Creek Station, AU	daily rain	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	20 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Burnett Heads Niell St, AU	daily rain	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	36 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Koyah, IN	daily rain	104.1 mm (4.1 in)	74.6 mm (2.9 in)	14 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Chinchilla Water Treatment Pla, AU	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	44 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
26 October 1953	Thiruvananthapuram, IN	daily rain	185.7 mm (7.3 in)	85.4 mm (3.4 in)	7 years	43 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

1816 to 1953

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1816 to 1953. 1953 had 449 records.

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

Records on 10-26 in each year
Year	Records
1816	1
1831	1
1832	1
1840	1
1841	1
1843	1
1849	1
1856	1
1859	1
1861	1
1864	1
1866	3
1868	2
1870	1
1871	4
1874	1
1879	2
1880	2
1881	1
1883	1
1885	1
1886	2
1887	8
1888	6
1889	2
1890	5
1891	2
1892	5
1894	2
1895	2
1898	2
1899	7
1900	5
1901	4
1902	4
1903	16
1904	6
1905	18
1906	8
1907	12
1908	25
1909	10
1910	10
1911	7
1912	24
1913	38
1914	27
1915	34
1916	59
1917	47
1918	58
1919	72
1920	57
1921	33
1922	147
1923	68
1924	102
1925	185
1926	381
1927	522
1928	174
1929	137
1930	228
1931	359
1932	468
1933	605
1934	331
1935	174
1936	528
1937	248
1938	201
1939	1,140
1940	516
1941	688
1942	926
1943	466
1944	357
1945	434
1946	481
1947	533
1948	158
1949	368
1950	654
1951	337
1952	417
1953	449
1954	728
1955	484
1956	378
1957	1,082
1958	187
1959	488
1960	315
1961	214
1962	1,136
1963	1,079
1964	417
1965	450
1966	271
1967	392
1968	478
1969	493
1970	744
1971	1,021
1972	362
1973	362
1974	266
1975	787
1976	818
1977	864
1978	495
1979	759
1980	953
1981	761
1982	837
1983	564
1984	790
1985	559
1986	602
1987	704
1988	896
1989	1,628
1990	582
1991	1,660
1992	726
1993	615
1994	610
1995	911
1996	1,651
1997	2,943
1998	1,125
1999	994
2000	1,091
2001	939
2002	1,088
2003	1,271
2004	1,122
2005	1,165
2006	1,822
2007	1,183
2008	631
2009	746
2010	1,542
2011	797
2012	1,048
2013	800
2014	977
2015	430
2016	719
2017	474
2018	592
2019	896
2020	3,942
2021	728
2022	626
2023	1,628
2024	790
2025	611

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Data for records on 1953-10-26: 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 20	333
20 to 40	53
40 to 60	17
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	4
100 to 120	1