Weather Records on 21 March 1969

219 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 21 March 1969. Highest significance: Zolotoj, RU.

Key Facts for 21 March 1969

On 21 March 1969, 219 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
48 were record highs and 25 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 5 monthly and 214 daily.
Zolotoj set a monthly record daily precipitation of 79.5 mm (3.1 in) on 21 March 1969.
Across 157 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 484 records.

Record Map

219 stations

219 station records on 21 March 1969 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 21 March 1969: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Zolotoj	Russia	Record daily precipitation	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Bottineau	United States	Record snow depth	73.7 cm (29.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Udaipur	India	Record daily precipitation	72.0 mm (2.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Sovetskaja Gavan	Russia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Chileka	Malawi	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Aparan	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Gardabani	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Phelps	United States	Record daily snowfall	24.1 cm (9.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Nuwara Eliya	Sri Lanka	Record high maximum temperature	25.7 C (78.3 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Bahadurganj	India	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Sheffield	United Kingdom	Record low maximum temperature	1.7 C (35.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Medicine Lake 3 SE	United States	Record snow depth	43.2 cm (17.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Brookings 2 NE	United States	Record snow depth	78.7 cm (31.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Yarima	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Poronajsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Forster - Tuncurry R.V.C.P.	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Los Angeles Downtown/Usc	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Huajuapan de Leon (Smn)	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Watertown Rgnl AP	United States	Record snow depth	50.8 cm (20.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Clark	United States	Record snow depth	48.3 cm (19.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Northfield	United States	Record snow depth	63.5 cm (25.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Nowshera	India	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Sviland	Norway	Record snow depth	26.0 cm (10.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Hull	United Kingdom	Record low maximum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Longreach Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Hawthorne AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Urgench	Uzbekistan	Record daily precipitation	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Krasnyj Jar	Russia	Record daily precipitation	15.4 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kyzylorda	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Troickoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Spitak	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	12.1 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ordynskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	6.5 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Novosibirsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tivjaku	Russia	Record daily precipitation	16.6 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pogranichnoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	17.7 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Slavgorod	Russia	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rogers City 3 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kochki	Russia	Record daily precipitation	6.8 mm (0.27 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bremen-Seefahrtschule	Germany	Record snow depth	4.0 cm (1.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sucinsk	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
D'Java	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	22.0 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pudino	Russia	Record daily precipitation	3.1 mm (0.12 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Habary	Russia	Record daily precipitation	4.5 mm (0.18 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kondut East	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dzhusaly	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	16.7 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tajga	Russia	Record daily precipitation	5.5 mm (0.22 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Neran	Russia	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Noondoonia O.S.	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
St Margaret's Bay	Canada	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Irgiz	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Phelps	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Odzun	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Montemorelos	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	7.4 mm (0.29 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Karasuk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	3.2 mm (0.13 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bremer Bay	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.0 mm (0.08 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Huelva	Spain	Record high minimum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Camp Pardee	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Devils Lake Kdlr	United States	Record snow depth	45.7 cm (18.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Sao Miguel Paulista E3-048	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Les Cedres	Canada	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

219 records

Records set or tied on 21 March 1969 by type: Highest daily maximum 8, Lowest daily maximum 16, Highest daily minimum 40, Lowest daily minimum 9, Heaviest daily rainfall 109, Heaviest daily snowfall 9, Deepest snow cover 28.

Records on 21 March 1969 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	8
Lowest daily maximum	16
Highest daily minimum	40
Lowest daily minimum	9
Heaviest daily rainfall	109
Heaviest daily snowfall	9
Deepest snow cover	28

Records on 21 March 1969 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 5, daily 214.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

175 broken records

Margins by which the 175 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 407.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

21 March 1969

Top 20 records on 21 March 1969 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
21 March 1969	Zolotoj, RU	monthly rain	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	42.3 mm (1.7 in)	3 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Bottineau, US	daily snow depth	73.7 cm (29.0 in)	40.7 cm (16.0 in)	20 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Udaipur, IN	daily rain	72.0 mm (2.8 in)	57.3 mm (2.3 in)	16 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Sovetskaja Gavan, RU	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	4 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Chileka, MW	daily rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	23 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Aparan, AM	daily rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	28 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Gardabani, GE	monthly rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	9.5 mm (0.37 in)	16 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Phelps, US	monthly snowfall	24.1 cm (9.5 in)	6.3 cm (2.5 in)	15 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Nuwara Eliya, LK	daily high max	25.7 C (78.3 F)	0.1 C (0.2 F)	83 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
21 March 1969	Bahadurganj, IN	daily rain	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	24.3 mm (1.0 in)	19 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Sheffield, GB	daily low max	1.7 C (35.1 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	85 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Medicine Lake 3 SE, US	daily snow depth	43.2 cm (17.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	52 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Brookings 2 NE, US	daily snow depth	78.7 cm (31.0 in)	30.4 cm (12.0 in)	18 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Yarima, ZA	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	58 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Poronajsk, RU	daily rain	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	11 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Forster - Tuncurry R.V.C.P., AU	daily rain	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	55 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Los Angeles Downtown/Usc, US	daily rain	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	3.3 mm (0.13 in)	60 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Huajuapan de Leon (Smn), MX	daily low max	20.6 C (69.1 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	34 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Watertown Rgnl AP, US	daily snow depth	50.8 cm (20.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	18 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
21 March 1969	Clark, US	daily snow depth	48.3 cm (19.0 in)	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	8 years	24 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

1797 to 1969

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1969. 1969 had 219 records.

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

Records on 03-21 in each year
Year	Records
1797	2
1805	1
1806	1
1822	1
1830	1
1836	1
1837	1
1845	1
1846	1
1850	1
1852	2
1857	1
1865	7
1874	1
1877	1
1880	1
1881	1
1883	2
1884	1
1885	5
1886	2
1888	1
1890	3
1892	1
1893	1
1894	1
1895	1
1896	2
1897	2
1898	3
1899	4
1900	4
1901	9
1902	18
1903	23
1904	17
1905	6
1906	3
1907	14
1908	3
1909	11
1910	10
1911	10
1912	36
1913	97
1914	71
1915	27
1916	44
1917	43
1918	43
1919	29
1920	90
1921	96
1922	50
1923	72
1924	96
1925	141
1926	282
1927	179
1928	293
1929	104
1930	99
1931	638
1932	305
1933	235
1934	114
1935	675
1936	225
1937	172
1938	783
1939	280
1940	366
1941	311
1942	330
1943	217
1944	556
1945	294
1946	570
1947	192
1948	948
1949	330
1950	398
1951	779
1952	689
1953	342
1954	211
1955	1,124
1956	686
1957	373
1958	619
1959	230
1960	892
1961	268
1962	548
1963	298
1964	333
1965	1,961
1966	464
1967	487
1968	798
1969	219
1970	612
1971	358
1972	519
1973	385
1974	1,097
1975	751
1976	710
1977	376
1978	838
1979	656
1980	775
1981	676
1982	850
1983	1,673
1984	835
1985	503
1986	1,170
1987	948
1988	1,155
1989	1,396
1990	1,380
1991	1,446
1992	877
1993	687
1994	684
1995	1,141
1996	1,119
1997	1,670
1998	935
1999	1,044
2000	802
2001	1,342
2002	1,593
2003	1,073
2004	1,511
2005	649
2006	1,417
2007	1,220
2008	734
2009	558
2010	1,134
2011	1,451
2012	2,854
2013	727
2014	639
2015	568
2016	553
2017	1,117
2018	809
2019	649
2020	445
2021	489
2022	615
2023	815
2024	432
2025	845
2026	2,614

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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 2026-10-14 (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 100	165
100 to 200	8
200 to 300	0
300 to 400	1
400 to 500	1