Weather Records on 21 November 1956

624 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 21 November 1956. Highest significance: Atmakur, IN.

Key Facts for 21 November 1956

On 21 November 1956, 624 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
49 were record highs and 198 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 8 monthly and 615 daily.
Atmakur set a daily record precipitation of 196.3 mm (7.7 in) on 21 November 1956.
Across 159 earlier years (1803 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 449 records.

Record Map

624 stations

624 station records on 21 November 1956 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 21 November 1956: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Atmakur	India	Record daily precipitation	196.3 mm (7.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Long Lake Dam	United States	Record daily snowfall	21.6 cm (8.5 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Tomahawk Spirit Rsvr	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Grand Meadow	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Marshfield Exp Farm	United States	Record snow depth	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Newberry-Luce Co Rd Commission	United States	Record daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Phelps	United States	Record daily snowfall	18.8 cm (7.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
De Brug (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Fremont	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Napoleon	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Paulding	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Rapur	India	Record daily precipitation	188.0 mm (7.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Griquatown (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Rhinelander	United States	Record daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kavali	India	Record daily precipitation	108.7 mm (4.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Sweetwater	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	91.5 mm (3.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Quilimane	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Shelbyville Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Medford	United States	Record daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ishpeming	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Defiance	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bloemfontein Kings Park	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Clarinda	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Salvisa Lock 6	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Marshfield Exp Farm	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mondovi	United States	Record daily snowfall	13.2 cm (5.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Huntington	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Fayette	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cairo River	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Marion 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Corry	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Quebec	Canada	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kadur	India	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hopkinsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Russellville	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Tarikere	India	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Cedaredge	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-17.8 C (0.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Richmond Wtr Wks	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Brownsville Lock 6	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Ketchikan AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	113.3 mm (4.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Lucknow	Canada	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
St Andrews	Canada	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Alur	India	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Adamsonsvlei	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Boetsap (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge City 3 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Chatham Exp Fa	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.4 cm (8.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
McKenzie Rvr Rs	United States	Record high maximum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Wawaitin	Canada	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ilulissat (Jakobshavn)	Greenland [Denmark]	Record low minimum temperature	-22.6 C (-8.7 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Madison Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Williams 3 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Woodbury	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Munising	United States	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Faribault	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Winona	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Hassan Obsy	India	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Wonderboom	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Anderson Wtr Wks	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Bluffton Wtr Wks	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

624 records

Records set or tied on 21 November 1956 by type: Highest daily maximum 27, Lowest daily maximum 47, Highest daily minimum 22, Lowest daily minimum 151, Heaviest daily rainfall 296, Heaviest daily snowfall 71, Deepest snow cover 10.

Records on 21 November 1956 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	27
Lowest daily maximum	47
Highest daily minimum	22
Lowest daily minimum	151
Heaviest daily rainfall	296
Heaviest daily snowfall	71
Deepest snow cover	10

Records on 21 November 1956 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 8, daily 615.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

536 broken records

Margins by which the 536 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 229.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

21 November 1956

Top 20 records on 21 November 1956 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
21 November 1956	Atmakur, IN	daily rain	196.3 mm (7.7 in)	158.5 mm (6.2 in)	41 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Long Lake Dam, US	daily snowfall	21.6 cm (8.5 in)	16.5 cm (6.5 in)	36 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Tomahawk Spirit Rsvr, US	daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	15.3 cm (6.0 in)	27 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Grand Meadow, US	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	10.1 cm (4.0 in)	60 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Marshfield Exp Farm, US	daily snow depth	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	32 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Newberry-Luce Co Rd Commission, US	daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	59 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Phelps, US	daily snowfall	18.8 cm (7.4 in)	13.7 cm (5.4 in)	36 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	De Brug (Pol), ZA	daily rain	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	35 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Fremont, US	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	23 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Napoleon, US	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	50 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Paulding, US	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	32 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Rapur, IN	daily rain	188.0 mm (7.4 in)	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	45 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Griquatown (Tnk), ZA	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	46 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Rhinelander, US	daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	12.0 cm (4.7 in)	11 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Kavali, IN	daily rain	108.7 mm (4.3 in)	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	45 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Sweetwater, ZA	all-time rain	91.5 mm (3.6 in)	4.9 mm (0.19 in)	33 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Quilimane, ZA	daily rain	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	34 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Shelbyville Sewage Plt, US	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	50 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Medford, US	daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	62 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 November 1956	Ishpeming, US	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	50 years	37 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

1803 to 1956

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1803 to 1956. 1956 had 624 records.

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

Records on 11-21 in each year
Year	Records
1803	1
1816	2
1821	2
1829	1
1835	1
1839	1
1844	1
1847	1
1855	1
1856	1
1857	1
1858	4
1866	1
1868	1
1870	2
1871	2
1872	1
1873	2
1874	1
1876	2
1879	4
1880	4
1881	1
1882	1
1883	3
1887	3
1889	1
1890	7
1893	1
1894	4
1896	1
1897	4
1898	3
1899	4
1900	7
1901	5
1902	7
1903	5
1904	9
1905	3
1906	14
1907	7
1908	9
1909	18
1910	23
1911	19
1912	14
1913	79
1914	51
1915	21
1916	66
1917	248
1918	12
1919	22
1920	36
1921	96
1922	42
1923	27
1924	104
1925	73
1926	420
1927	108
1928	109
1929	467
1930	243
1931	682
1932	162
1933	381
1934	578
1935	62
1936	192
1937	1,309
1938	119
1939	303
1940	337
1941	329
1942	662
1943	212
1944	250
1945	308
1946	604
1947	540
1948	414
1949	588
1950	904
1951	605
1952	424
1953	408
1954	927
1955	419
1956	624
1957	442
1958	407
1959	460
1960	691
1961	738
1962	524
1963	601
1964	1,014
1965	448
1966	589
1967	336
1968	358
1969	611
1970	400
1971	514
1972	735
1973	1,100
1974	809
1975	548
1976	315
1977	1,313
1978	1,034
1979	1,409
1980	805
1981	939
1982	807
1983	1,066
1984	525
1985	1,808
1986	815
1987	949
1988	928
1989	797
1990	1,337
1991	944
1992	1,375
1993	1,413
1994	1,179
1995	1,084
1996	1,882
1997	449
1998	1,312
1999	920
2000	1,191
2001	811
2002	847
2003	1,007
2004	873
2005	491
2006	1,181
2007	936
2008	1,079
2009	1,131
2010	894
2011	944
2012	792
2013	543
2014	815
2015	785
2016	1,000
2017	687
2018	391
2019	653
2020	421
2021	296
2022	824
2023	584
2024	519
2025	745

Download the Data

Data for records on 1956-11-21: 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 2026-10-14 (14 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).

Margin	Records
0 to 50	507
50 to 100	18
100 to 150	7
150 to 200	3
200 to 250	1