Weather Records on 3 March 1977

949 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 3 March 1977. Highest significance: Merriwa (Terragong), AU.

Key Facts for 3 March 1977

On 3 March 1977, 949 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
216 were record highs and 74 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 6 were all-time records, 14 monthly and 929 daily.
Merriwa (Terragong) set a daily record precipitation of 80.2 mm (3.2 in) on 3 March 1977.
Across 159 earlier years (1804 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 520 records.

Record Map

949 stations

949 station records on 3 March 1977 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 3 March 1977: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Merriwa (Terragong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.2 mm (3.2 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Warrumbungle (Cheddington)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Rockdale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.2 mm (2.8 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Tweed Heads Golf Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	250.0 mm (9.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Pocahontas	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Sibley	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Walgett Council Depot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Akron	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Rowena (Waroonga)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Pine Islet Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	143.6 mm (5.7 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Stanley Wwtp	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Mullumbimby (Fairview Farm)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	168.0 mm (6.6 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Pocahontas	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Newport	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Hico	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Alton	United States	Record daily snowfall	35.6 cm (14.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Storm Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
St Peter	United States	Record daily snowfall	30.7 cm (12.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Woodburn Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	241.0 mm (9.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Spencer 1 N	United States	Record daily snowfall	35.6 cm (14.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Whian Whian (Rummery Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	165.0 mm (6.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Aberdeen (Rossgole)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.0 mm (2.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Monroe Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Warren (Eenaweena)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Warrumbungle Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Somerton (Girraweena)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Coraki Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	171.4 mm (6.7 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Park 3SSE	United States	Record daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Emerson	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Newport	United States	Record daily snowfall	26.4 cm (10.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Marra Creek (Womboin)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Coolangatta Bowls Comp	Australia	Record daily precipitation	276.0 mm (10.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Wingham (Lanark Close)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	76.0 mm (3.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Ida Grove 5NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Fairmont	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Emerson	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Maclean (McLachlan Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	98.4 mm (3.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Nowendoc (Beaufort)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Horatio	United States	Record daily precipitation	92.2 mm (3.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Storm Lake	United States	Record daily snowfall	31.8 cm (12.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Weyerhaeuser 1N	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Berambing	Australia	Record daily precipitation	157.2 mm (6.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Chaska	United States	Record daily snowfall	33.0 cm (13.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Madison Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Pilger	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Wayne	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Howard	United States	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Cooper	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.3 mm (3.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Tooraweenah (Denham St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Morgan	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sioux Rapids	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Cassilis Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.6 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Alton	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Faribault	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Springfield 1 NW	United States	Record daily snowfall	31.8 cm (12.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Mitchell 5E	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Midland	United States	Record daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Roma Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Dequeen	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Castle Rock	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.1 cm (2.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

949 records

Records set or tied on 3 March 1977 by type: Highest daily maximum 100, Lowest daily maximum 37, Highest daily minimum 116, Lowest daily minimum 37, Heaviest daily rainfall 527, Heaviest daily snowfall 118, Deepest snow cover 14.

Records on 3 March 1977 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	100
Lowest daily maximum	37
Highest daily minimum	116
Lowest daily minimum	37
Heaviest daily rainfall	527
Heaviest daily snowfall	118
Deepest snow cover	14

Records on 3 March 1977 by timescale: all-time 6, monthly 14, daily 929.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

849 broken records

Margins by which the 849 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 280.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

3 March 1977

Top 20 records on 3 March 1977 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
3 March 1977	Merriwa (Terragong), AU	daily rain	80.2 mm (3.2 in)	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	72 years	67 of 100 (Major)
3 March 1977	Warrumbungle (Cheddington), AU	daily rain	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	86 years	63 of 100 (Major)
3 March 1977	Rockdale, AU	daily rain	70.2 mm (2.8 in)	49.1 mm (1.9 in)	56 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Tweed Heads Golf Club, AU	daily rain	250.0 mm (9.8 in)	152.2 mm (6.0 in)	30 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Pocahontas, US	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	54 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Sibley, US	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	36 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Walgett Council Depot, AU	daily rain	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	72 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Akron, US	monthly rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	27 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Rowena (Waroonga), AU	daily rain	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	46 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Pine Islet Lighthouse, AU	daily rain	143.6 mm (5.7 in)	97.4 mm (3.8 in)	31 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Stanley Wwtp, US	daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	11.5 cm (4.5 in)	71 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Mullumbimby (Fairview Farm), AU	daily rain	168.0 mm (6.6 in)	91.8 mm (3.6 in)	30 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Pocahontas, US	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	16.8 cm (6.6 in)	52 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Newport, US	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	70 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Hico, US	daily rain	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	62 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Alton, US	all-time snowfall	35.6 cm (14.0 in)	7.7 cm (3.0 in)	25 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Storm Lake, US	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	11 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	St Peter, US	daily snowfall	30.7 cm (12.1 in)	16.7 cm (6.6 in)	56 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Woodburn Post Office, AU	daily rain	241.0 mm (9.5 in)	141.0 mm (5.6 in)	2 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 March 1977	Spencer 1 N, US	all-time snowfall	35.6 cm (14.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	38 years	49 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

1804 to 1977

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1804 to 1977. 1977 had 949 records.

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

Records on 03-03 in each year
Year	Records
1804	1
1840	1
1842	1
1843	1
1845	3
1846	3
1850	1
1851	2
1852	1
1853	1
1859	2
1862	2
1863	1
1866	1
1868	1
1869	1
1870	1
1875	1
1877	2
1878	2
1886	2
1887	1
1888	2
1889	4
1890	8
1891	2
1892	3
1893	1
1895	2
1896	6
1897	6
1898	4
1899	3
1900	9
1901	10
1902	8
1903	14
1904	9
1905	21
1906	24
1907	6
1908	7
1909	32
1910	6
1911	13
1912	73
1913	34
1914	24
1915	18
1916	36
1917	60
1918	61
1919	76
1920	56
1921	138
1922	56
1923	280
1924	83
1925	406
1926	152
1927	143
1928	79
1929	173
1930	203
1931	259
1932	279
1933	143
1934	504
1935	248
1936	265
1937	187
1938	455
1939	179
1940	300
1941	819
1942	454
1943	1,533
1944	366
1945	649
1946	530
1947	761
1948	449
1949	266
1950	780
1951	1,006
1952	810
1953	668
1954	480
1955	884
1956	669
1957	261
1958	247
1959	360
1960	2,276
1961	650
1962	568
1963	309
1964	794
1965	835
1966	949
1967	520
1968	697
1969	395
1970	705
1971	888
1972	1,141
1973	557
1974	1,849
1975	534
1976	1,611
1977	949
1978	1,504
1979	1,037
1980	1,741
1981	642
1982	968
1983	1,676
1984	378
1985	740
1986	987
1987	1,497
1988	1,081
1989	1,443
1990	775
1991	1,169
1992	1,354
1993	607
1994	1,574
1995	1,234
1996	693
1997	1,704
1998	957
1999	1,187
2000	1,049
2001	903
2002	1,880
2003	876
2004	778
2005	727
2006	604
2007	888
2008	917
2009	1,671
2010	685
2011	677
2012	866
2013	719
2014	2,301
2015	543
2016	545
2017	315
2018	516
2019	1,795
2020	678
2021	553
2022	962
2023	809
2024	1,359
2025	695
2026	970

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Data for records on 1977-03-03: 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 50	776
50 to 100	49
100 to 150	13
150 to 200	6
200 to 250	4
250 to 300	1