Weather Records on 2 November 1979

589 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 2 November 1979. Highest significance: Martuk, KZ.

Key Facts for 2 November 1979

On 2 November 1979, 589 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
77 were record highs and 236 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 31 monthly and 558 daily.
Martuk set a monthly record daily precipitation of 39.9 mm (1.6 in) on 2 November 1979.
Across 159 earlier years (1805 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 480 records.

Record Map

589 stations

589 station records on 2 November 1979 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 2 November 1979: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Martuk	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Novoalekseevka	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Novorossiyskoe	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Aktobe	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	45.9 mm (1.8 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Toccoa	United States	Record daily precipitation	115.1 mm (4.5 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Djavary	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Oni	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Divnoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Marshall	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Highlands	United States	Record daily precipitation	144.3 mm (5.7 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Shovi	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Jacksonville NAS	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Ambrolauri	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Douglasville 4 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Daytona Beach Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Gouvea	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	116.0 mm (4.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Franklin 2 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Poretskoye	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-10.7 C (12.7 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Rock Mills	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Vandalia	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Asheville	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Piracaia	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	85.4 mm (3.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Tkvarcheli	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Myers Page Fld AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Velikie Luki	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-6.0 C (21.2 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Buxton	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	14.8 C (58.6 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Milstead	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Minsk	Belarus	Record low maximum temperature	-7.1 C (19.2 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Scottsboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Grafton	United States	Record high maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Canaan Valley	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Liepaja	Latvia	Record low minimum temperature	-8.6 C (16.5 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Vilnius	Lithuania	Record low minimum temperature	-11.5 C (11.3 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Coffee Springs 2 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Oxford Hydro STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Rjazan	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-10.4 C (13.3 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Monterey	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Tuscaloosa Oliver Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Morgan 1 W	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Mocksville 5SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Henichesk	Ukraine	Record low maximum temperature	-2.0 C (28.4 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mathias	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kaunas	Lithuania	Record low maximum temperature	-5.3 C (22.5 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Kaunas	Lithuania	Record low minimum temperature	-9.7 C (14.5 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Vilnius	Lithuania	Record low maximum temperature	-6.8 C (19.8 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Armavir	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Nikolaev	Ukraine	Record low maximum temperature	-2.4 C (27.7 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Highland Home	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Titusville	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Clayton 1 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Swannanoa 2 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.5 mm (3.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Long Creek	United States	Record daily precipitation	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ravenswood Lock Park	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ebor (Kotupna)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Svetlograd	Russia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Teberda	Russia	Record daily precipitation	55.7 mm (2.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Chickamauga Park	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wateree Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bom Jardim de Minas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	103.6 mm (4.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Valentia Observatory	Ireland	Record daily precipitation	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

589 records

Records set or tied on 2 November 1979 by type: Highest daily maximum 41, Lowest daily maximum 124, Highest daily minimum 36, Lowest daily minimum 112, Heaviest daily rainfall 252, Heaviest daily snowfall 9, Deepest snow cover 15.

Records on 2 November 1979 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	41
Lowest daily maximum	124
Highest daily minimum	36
Lowest daily minimum	112
Heaviest daily rainfall	252
Heaviest daily snowfall	9
Deepest snow cover	15

Records on 2 November 1979 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 31, daily 558.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

499 broken records

Margins by which the 499 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 77.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

2 November 1979

Top 20 records on 2 November 1979 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
2 November 1979	Martuk, KZ	monthly rain	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	22.7 mm (0.9 in)	31 years	63 of 100 (Major)
2 November 1979	Novoalekseevka, KZ	monthly rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	31 years	63 of 100 (Major)
2 November 1979	Novorossiyskoe, KZ	monthly rain	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	17.4 mm (0.7 in)	31 years	63 of 100 (Major)
2 November 1979	Aktobe, KZ	monthly rain	45.9 mm (1.8 in)	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	17 years	62 of 100 (Major)
2 November 1979	Toccoa, US	daily rain	115.1 mm (4.5 in)	61.8 mm (2.4 in)	32 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Djavary, GE	daily rain	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	38 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Oni, GE	daily rain	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	40 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Divnoe, RU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	38 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Marshall, US	daily rain	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	38 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Highlands, US	monthly rain	144.3 mm (5.7 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	64 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Shovi, GE	daily rain	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	24.7 mm (1.0 in)	38 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Jacksonville NAS, US	monthly rain	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	29 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Ambrolauri, GE	daily rain	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	35.4 mm (1.4 in)	5 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Douglasville 4 S, US	daily rain	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	32 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Daytona Beach Intl AP, US	daily rain	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	2 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Gouvea, BR	daily rain	116.0 mm (4.6 in)	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	4 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Franklin 2 NE, US	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	72 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Poretskoye, RU	daily low max	-10.7 C (12.7 F)	5.2 C (9.4 F)	77 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Rock Mills, US	daily rain	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	32 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
2 November 1979	Vandalia, US	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	52 years	40 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 1979

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1805 to 1979. 1979 had 589 records.

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

Records on 11-02 in each year
Year	Records
1805	1
1830	2
1836	1
1837	2
1841	1
1848	1
1851	2
1853	1
1857	1
1858	1
1859	1
1860	3
1862	2
1863	1
1864	1
1871	1
1872	1
1875	2
1876	1
1879	4
1880	1
1881	3
1885	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	6
1892	1
1893	1
1894	6
1895	1
1896	8
1897	2
1898	8
1899	2
1900	7
1901	4
1902	9
1903	5
1904	21
1905	17
1906	15
1907	10
1908	14
1909	21
1910	27
1911	63
1912	42
1913	53
1914	47
1915	23
1916	41
1917	23
1918	41
1919	96
1920	43
1921	34
1922	47
1923	85
1924	215
1925	113
1926	169
1927	369
1928	245
1929	440
1930	291
1931	325
1932	280
1933	516
1934	476
1935	877
1936	937
1937	236
1938	965
1939	205
1940	372
1941	236
1942	464
1943	192
1944	497
1945	299
1946	633
1947	374
1948	317
1949	436
1950	625
1951	2,078
1952	487
1953	486
1954	873
1955	508
1956	1,184
1957	452
1958	226
1959	466
1960	338
1961	1,002
1962	335
1963	528
1964	511
1965	850
1966	1,187
1967	581
1968	753
1969	399
1970	384
1971	1,130
1972	746
1973	593
1974	828
1975	560
1976	906
1977	742
1978	899
1979	589
1980	767
1981	1,051
1982	913
1983	880
1984	1,097
1985	817
1986	518
1987	1,294
1988	1,024
1989	577
1990	873
1991	3,070
1992	1,567
1993	1,689
1994	1,125
1995	1,300
1996	724
1997	824
1998	864
1999	1,212
2000	1,145
2001	470
2002	1,323
2003	1,129
2004	1,279
2005	942
2006	818
2007	462
2008	1,133
2009	877
2010	784
2011	861
2012	577
2013	364
2014	1,007
2015	1,079
2016	1,047
2017	498
2018	601
2019	524
2020	2,172
2021	284
2022	877
2023	1,020
2024	460
2025	447

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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	397
10 to 20	59
20 to 30	23
30 to 40	8
40 to 50	4
50 to 60	2
60 to 70	3
70 to 80	3