Weather Records on 10 March 1971

533 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 10 March 1971. Highest significance: Canary Island, AU.

Key Facts for 10 March 1971

On 10 March 1971, 533 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
22 were record highs and 61 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 8 monthly and 522 daily.
Canary Island set a daily record precipitation of 57.4 mm (2.3 in) on 10 March 1971.
Across 160 earlier years (1807 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 517 records.

Record Map

533 stations

533 station records on 10 March 1971 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 10 March 1971: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Canary Island	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Bimbowrie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Berriwillock	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Gama	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Walpeup	Australia	Record daily precipitation	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Nullawil	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Turriff	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Kalpienung	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Meringur	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Galah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Speed (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Cockburn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Koonamore	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Sea Lake (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Erudina	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Litchfield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Lascelles	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Arrabury Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Hopetoun	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Yallalong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Mittyack	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Winnambool (Kulwin)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Porciuncula	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	69.0 mm (2.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Steffenville	United States	Record daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Birchip (Marlbed)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ninyeunook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Woomelang	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Wycheproof (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lowville	United States	Record snow depth	96.5 cm (38.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Canton 4 SE	United States	Record snow depth	127.0 cm (50.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Kurnwill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Mudgeacca	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Walpeup Research	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Warmur West	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Boort	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Brucefield	Canada	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Clinton 2	United States	Record daily snowfall	9.7 cm (3.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Holy Cross	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-26.1 C (-15.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Olympia AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Edgerton	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Palmerville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Woornack	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Lalbert	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Port Dover	Canada	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Baring (Kinta)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Boigbeat	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Castelo	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	58.0 mm (2.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Manangatang	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Watchem	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Lawrenceville 3 SW	United States	Record snow depth	104.1 cm (41.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Patchewollock	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Rive	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	66.2 mm (2.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Angatuba	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	43.5 mm (1.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomfield	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomingdale	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-18.3 C (-0.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Hastings	United States	Record daily snowfall	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Nome AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-28.3 C (-18.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Quambatook (Barraport North)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Culgoa	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Tyrrell Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

533 records

Records set or tied on 10 March 1971 by type: Highest daily maximum 10, Lowest daily maximum 19, Highest daily minimum 12, Lowest daily minimum 42, Heaviest daily rainfall 360, Heaviest daily snowfall 57, Deepest snow cover 33.

Records on 10 March 1971 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	10
Lowest daily maximum	19
Highest daily minimum	12
Lowest daily minimum	42
Heaviest daily rainfall	360
Heaviest daily snowfall	57
Deepest snow cover	33

Records on 10 March 1971 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 8, daily 522.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

462 broken records

Margins by which the 462 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 483.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

10 March 1971

Top 20 records on 10 March 1971 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
10 March 1971	Canary Island, AU	daily rain	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	64 years	67 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1971	Bimbowrie, AU	monthly rain	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	28.9 mm (1.1 in)	61 years	65 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1971	Berriwillock, AU	daily rain	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	44.9 mm (1.8 in)	56 years	64 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1971	Gama, AU	daily rain	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	56 years	63 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1971	Walpeup, AU	daily rain	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	56 years	62 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1971	Nullawil, AU	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	40.2 mm (1.6 in)	60 years	61 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1971	Turriff, AU	daily rain	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	56 years	61 of 100 (Major)
10 March 1971	Kalpienung, AU	daily rain	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	57 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Meringur, AU	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	42 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Galah, AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	56 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Speed (Post Office), AU	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	36 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Cockburn, AU	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	56 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Koonamore, AU	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	81 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Sea Lake (Post Office), AU	daily rain	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	36 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Erudina, AU	daily rain	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	58 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Litchfield, AU	daily rain	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	86 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Lascelles, AU	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	8 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Arrabury Station, AU	daily rain	77.5 mm (3.1 in)	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	1 year	45 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Hopetoun, AU	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	58 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
10 March 1971	Yallalong, AU	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	48 years	44 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

1807 to 1971

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1807 to 1971. 1971 had 533 records.

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

Records on 03-10 in each year
Year	Records
1807	1
1809	1
1810	3
1834	1
1837	1
1845	1
1847	2
1849	1
1850	1
1854	1
1855	1
1858	2
1860	4
1862	1
1866	2
1871	2
1873	1
1874	3
1877	2
1878	3
1880	3
1881	1
1882	4
1883	3
1884	1
1886	2
1888	2
1890	1
1891	3
1892	4
1894	10
1895	1
1896	2
1897	7
1898	1
1901	12
1902	4
1903	6
1904	13
1905	4
1906	26
1907	14
1908	14
1909	16
1910	14
1911	21
1912	53
1913	78
1914	29
1915	29
1916	33
1917	36
1918	73
1919	28
1920	22
1921	65
1922	58
1923	87
1924	236
1925	265
1926	122
1927	93
1928	107
1929	407
1930	96
1931	374
1932	1,857
1933	267
1934	479
1935	338
1936	406
1937	218
1938	142
1939	497
1940	367
1941	260
1942	233
1943	490
1944	646
1945	250
1946	274
1947	316
1948	1,943
1949	511
1950	500
1951	753
1952	478
1953	355
1954	573
1955	1,308
1956	633
1957	607
1958	490
1959	256
1960	834
1961	351
1962	765
1963	470
1964	934
1965	306
1966	588
1967	850
1968	557
1969	874
1970	341
1971	533
1972	1,382
1973	1,143
1974	1,376
1975	868
1976	488
1977	1,300
1978	877
1979	538
1980	491
1981	1,178
1982	858
1983	1,014
1984	1,397
1985	758
1986	1,041
1987	595
1988	830
1989	1,846
1990	1,333
1991	406
1992	1,063
1993	753
1994	1,496
1995	1,241
1996	1,978
1997	1,360
1998	1,957
1999	759
2000	1,609
2001	882
2002	850
2003	1,137
2004	942
2005	963
2006	1,625
2007	457
2008	792
2009	1,407
2010	1,287
2011	934
2012	785
2013	937
2014	988
2015	825
2016	1,781
2017	562
2018	410
2019	1,208
2020	753
2021	1,131
2022	1,486
2023	1,139
2024	489
2025	737
2026	1,485

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Data for records on 1971-03-10: 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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 100	451
100 to 200	6
200 to 300	1
300 to 400	3
400 to 500	1