Weather Records on 27 July 1976

426 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 27 July 1976. Highest significance: Verma, NO.

Key Facts for 27 July 1976

On 27 July 1976, 426 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
54 were record highs and 175 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 16 monthly and 409 daily.
Verma set a monthly record daily precipitation of 39.8 mm (1.6 in) on 27 July 1976.
Across 162 earlier years (1805 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 453 records.

Record Map

426 stations

426 station records on 27 July 1976 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 27 July 1976: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Verma	Norway	Record daily precipitation	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Briksdal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Hvar	Croatia	Record daily precipitation	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Ilhota-Jusante	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	79.8 mm (3.1 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Kropacevo	Russia	Record daily precipitation	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Mitchell Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Nova Trento	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	70.7 mm (2.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Trombudo Central	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	73.0 mm (2.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Eichstatt-Landershofen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	80.6 mm (3.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Chattanooga AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Pecs Pogany	Hungary	Record daily precipitation	52.7 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Gaines	United States	Record high minimum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Lumpkin 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Garcia	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Cumberland	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Norddal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Tlachichuca	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hvar	Croatia	Record low minimum temperature	17.0 C (62.6 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Tafjord	Norway	Record daily precipitation	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Brusque (Pcd)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	73.6 mm (2.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Juncos 1 SE	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Henichesk	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Monmouth	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Myers Page Fld AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hopetoun	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.2 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Moorleah (Preolenna Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Ituporanga (Pcd)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Sogndal - Selseng	Norway	Record daily precipitation	33.9 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Holm	Russia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Armavir	Russia	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Calera	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Betatakin	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Brinkley	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Canton	United States	Record daily precipitation	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Boyatup	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.4 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Wallabadah (Gaspard)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Richmond Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	34.6 C (94.3 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Major Gercino	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lancaster	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Borovici	Russia	Record daily precipitation	51.2 mm (2.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Parker 6 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Apiuna -Regua Nova (Pcd)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	58.1 mm (2.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sable Island	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
De Quincy	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Newton	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Halenanaho 1006	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Petropavlovsk	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Douglasville 4 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Galesburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Rockville	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Pouso Redondo	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Jerecuaro	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ljubljana Bezigrad	Slovenia	Record low maximum temperature	16.6 C (61.9 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kamloops	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Mauth-Finsterau	Germany	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Du Quoin 4 SE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Elmira	United States	Record low minimum temperature	5.6 C (42.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Liberty 1 NE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Int	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Chichester Dam	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

426 records

Records set or tied on 27 July 1976 by type: Highest daily maximum 21, Lowest daily maximum 46, Highest daily minimum 33, Lowest daily minimum 129, Heaviest daily rainfall 197.

Records on 27 July 1976 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	21
Lowest daily maximum	46
Highest daily minimum	33
Lowest daily minimum	129
Heaviest daily rainfall	197
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 27 July 1976 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 16, daily 409.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

333 broken records

Margins by which the 333 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 61.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

27 July 1976

Top 20 records on 27 July 1976 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
27 July 1976	Verma, NO	monthly rain	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	14.6 mm (0.6 in)	60 years	70 of 100 (Major)
27 July 1976	Briksdal, NO	daily rain	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	31.1 mm (1.2 in)	30 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Hvar, HR	daily rain	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	85 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Ilhota-Jusante, BR	daily rain	79.8 mm (3.1 in)	49.9 mm (2.0 in)	28 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Kropacevo, RU	daily rain	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	26 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Mitchell Dam, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	37 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Nova Trento, BR	daily rain	70.7 mm (2.8 in)	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Trombudo Central, BR	daily rain	73.0 mm (2.9 in)	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	29 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Eichstatt-Landershofen, DE	all-time rain	80.6 mm (3.2 in)	13.6 mm (0.5 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Chattanooga AP, US	daily rain	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	34 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Pecs Pogany, HU	daily rain	52.7 mm (2.1 in)	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	35 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Ft Gaines, US	daily high min	28.9 C (84.0 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	51 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Lumpkin 2 SE, US	daily rain	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	76 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Garcia, BR	daily rain	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	38.8 mm (1.5 in)	28 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Cumberland, US	daily rain	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	68 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Norddal, NO	daily rain	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	56 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Tlachichuca, MX	daily rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	36 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Hvar, HR	daily low min	17.0 C (62.6 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	97 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Tafjord, NO	monthly rain	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	7.4 mm (0.29 in)	40 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
27 July 1976	Brusque (Pcd), BR	daily rain	73.6 mm (2.9 in)	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	28 years	39 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

1805 to 1976

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1805 to 1976. 1976 had 426 records.

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

Records on 07-27 in each year
Year	Records
1805	1
1815	2
1820	1
1832	2
1847	1
1852	1
1856	2
1857	2
1862	1
1863	1
1867	2
1868	4
1870	1
1871	1
1872	2
1873	1
1875	1
1876	2
1877	2
1881	2
1882	1
1883	5
1884	2
1886	1
1887	3
1888	3
1889	4
1890	5
1891	1
1893	2
1894	1
1895	2
1896	1
1897	5
1898	2
1899	4
1900	5
1901	11
1902	4
1903	13
1904	13
1905	7
1906	16
1907	14
1908	17
1909	18
1910	7
1911	51
1912	89
1913	43
1914	44
1915	31
1916	143
1917	46
1918	103
1919	86
1920	67
1921	123
1922	95
1923	142
1924	71
1925	234
1926	131
1927	69
1928	222
1929	177
1930	786
1931	429
1932	172
1933	414
1934	471
1935	289
1936	971
1937	407
1938	287
1939	284
1940	632
1941	457
1942	258
1943	326
1944	398
1945	337
1946	680
1947	389
1948	485
1949	418
1950	797
1951	207
1952	476
1953	248
1954	294
1955	521
1956	325
1957	372
1958	491
1959	395
1960	385
1961	277
1962	1,009
1963	584
1964	335
1965	434
1966	594
1967	559
1968	391
1969	588
1970	379
1971	1,083
1972	790
1973	751
1974	403
1975	588
1976	426
1977	878
1978	583
1979	749
1980	760
1981	1,233
1982	584
1983	1,455
1984	1,613
1985	571
1986	836
1987	1,108
1988	936
1989	1,103
1990	846
1991	763
1992	791
1993	1,317
1994	1,851
1995	1,192
1996	950
1997	1,173
1998	1,363
1999	820
2000	1,019
2001	1,265
2002	816
2003	1,064
2004	1,552
2005	1,743
2006	1,321
2007	904
2008	784
2009	829
2010	1,330
2011	1,007
2012	823
2013	1,110
2014	591
2015	744
2016	564
2017	460
2018	737
2019	597
2020	842
2021	1,131
2022	855
2023	826
2024	646
2025	853
2026	1,170

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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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 10	259
10 to 20	44
20 to 30	15
30 to 40	9
40 to 50	2
50 to 60	3
60 to 70	1