Weather Records on 3 August 1978

832 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 3 August 1978. Highest significance: Ballinger 2 NW, US.

Key Facts for 3 August 1978

On 3 August 1978, 832 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
126 were record highs and 457 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 22 monthly and 807 daily.
Ballinger 2 NW set a daily record precipitation of 124.7 mm (4.9 in) on 3 August 1978.
Across 156 earlier years (1815 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 461 records.

Record Map

832 stations

832 station records on 3 August 1978 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 3 August 1978: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Ballinger 2 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	124.7 mm (4.9 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Eastland	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Brady	United States	Record daily precipitation	142.2 mm (5.6 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
New Carlisle	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Knightstown 2 ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
McCamey	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Krasnaja Poljana	Russia	Record daily precipitation	111.7 mm (4.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Yarrie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Richland Springs	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Abilene Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
New Orleans Audubon	United States	Record high minimum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Cliff 11 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Comanche	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Svartingstorp	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Lawn	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Coleman	United States	Record daily precipitation	139.7 mm (5.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Canon City	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lamar	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Putnam	United States	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Rising Star 1S	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Thurber 5 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Farmington	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Imperial	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Goldthwaite 1 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Medicine Hat A	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	4.6 C (40.3 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Sibley	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Indian Gap	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Goodland	United States	Record low maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Port Dover	Canada	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Hat Creek	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Pipestone	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Winona	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Llano	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mullin	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Nogliki	Russia	Record daily precipitation	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Douglas	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Carmel	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Milaca	United States	Record low minimum temperature	3.3 C (37.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
O'Neill	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Eaton	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Syracuse 1NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Chamberlain	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kennebec	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Tyndall	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Brownwood 2NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Coleman	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Teberda	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Fowler 1 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Charles City	United States	Record low minimum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Crookston NW Exp STN	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Pleasant Hill	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Menno	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Breckenridge	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hunt 3 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	193.0 mm (7.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Piaxtla	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Tanhoj	Russia	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kassler	United States	Record low maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Billings Wtp	United States	Record low maximum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Red Lodge	United States	Record low minimum temperature	1.1 C (34.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bowman	United States	Record low minimum temperature	1.7 C (35.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

832 records

Records set or tied on 3 August 1978 by type: Highest daily maximum 58, Lowest daily maximum 160, Highest daily minimum 68, Lowest daily minimum 297, Heaviest daily rainfall 249.

Records on 3 August 1978 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	58
Lowest daily maximum	160
Highest daily minimum	68
Lowest daily minimum	297
Heaviest daily rainfall	249
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 3 August 1978 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 22, daily 807.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

670 broken records

Margins by which the 670 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 111.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

3 August 1978

Top 20 records on 3 August 1978 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
3 August 1978	Ballinger 2 NW, US	daily rain	124.7 mm (4.9 in)	111.2 mm (4.4 in)	73 years	70 of 100 (Major)
3 August 1978	Eastland, US	daily rain	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	84 years	65 of 100 (Major)
3 August 1978	Brady, US	monthly rain	142.2 mm (5.6 in)	59.6 mm (2.3 in)	0 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	New Carlisle, US	daily rain	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	55 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Knightstown 2 ENE, US	monthly rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	81 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	McCamey, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	46.4 mm (1.8 in)	45 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Krasnaja Poljana, RU	daily rain	111.7 mm (4.4 in)	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	24 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Yarrie, AU	monthly rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	58 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Richland Springs, US	daily rain	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	75.4 mm (3.0 in)	20 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Abilene Rgnl AP, US	all-time rain	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	18 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	New Orleans Audubon, US	daily high min	27.8 C (82.0 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	80 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Cliff 11 SE, US	daily rain	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	32 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Comanche, US	daily rain	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	73 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Svartingstorp, SE	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	30.8 mm (1.2 in)	5 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Lawn, US	daily rain	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	86.9 mm (3.4 in)	3 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Coleman, US	monthly rain	139.7 mm (5.5 in)	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	71 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Canon City, US	daily low min	8.3 C (46.9 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	83 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Lamar, US	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	57 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Putnam, US	all-time rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	46 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
3 August 1978	Rising Star 1S, US	daily rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	57.1 mm (2.2 in)	1 year	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

1815 to 1978

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1815 to 1978. 1978 had 832 records.

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

Records on 08-03 in each year
Year	Records
1815	1
1827	1
1834	2
1835	1
1838	1
1841	1
1847	1
1849	1
1854	1
1855	2
1856	1
1859	1
1868	1
1872	1
1875	1
1876	1
1877	4
1879	3
1880	1
1885	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	4
1890	2
1891	1
1894	1
1895	11
1896	3
1897	1
1898	4
1899	6
1900	2
1902	6
1903	12
1904	6
1905	7
1906	20
1907	31
1908	23
1909	21
1910	14
1911	31
1912	68
1913	21
1914	24
1915	49
1916	55
1917	72
1918	71
1919	34
1920	56
1921	181
1922	33
1923	149
1924	165
1925	99
1926	300
1927	315
1928	332
1929	207
1930	816
1931	313
1932	319
1933	304
1934	434
1935	520
1936	555
1937	350
1938	542
1939	866
1940	292
1941	305
1942	328
1943	521
1944	530
1945	259
1946	316
1947	586
1948	414
1949	415
1950	445
1951	547
1952	326
1953	617
1954	401
1955	713
1956	640
1957	378
1958	389
1959	360
1960	482
1961	620
1962	359
1963	352
1964	891
1965	679
1966	444
1967	327
1968	368
1969	625
1970	394
1971	891
1972	757
1973	724
1974	906
1975	978
1976	892
1977	544
1978	832
1979	486
1980	800
1981	579
1982	778
1983	807
1984	925
1985	691
1986	750
1987	1,105
1988	1,046
1989	824
1990	845
1991	705
1992	869
1993	1,033
1994	973
1995	1,216
1996	965
1997	709
1998	1,406
1999	893
2000	869
2001	1,021
2002	1,000
2003	1,504
2004	980
2005	912
2006	1,514
2007	750
2008	926
2009	746
2010	1,392
2011	1,518
2012	685
2013	535
2014	961
2015	615
2016	640
2017	1,144
2018	1,039
2019	451
2020	708
2021	841
2022	654
2023	1,044
2024	1,401
2025	929
2026	1,242

Download the Data

Data for records on 1978-08-03: 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 20	633
20 to 40	25
40 to 60	8
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	2
100 to 120	1