Weather Records on 19 August 1982

596 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 19 August 1982. Highest significance: Warroad, US.

Key Facts for 19 August 1982

On 19 August 1982, 596 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
248 were record highs and 99 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 22 monthly and 572 daily.
Warroad set a daily record precipitation of 49.5 mm (1.9 in) on 19 August 1982.
Across 168 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 438 records.

Record Map

596 stations

596 station records on 19 August 1982 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 19 August 1982: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Warroad	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Durham	Canada	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Ntazepetrovsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Pine Bluffs	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Tajima	Japan	Record daily precipitation	74.5 mm (2.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Gigant	Russia	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Los Reyes	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	164.6 mm (6.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Morgan 1 W	United States	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tottori	Japan	Record daily precipitation	68.5 mm (2.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Balasore	India	Record daily precipitation	116.3 mm (4.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Everglades	United States	Record low minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Aldeia	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kauffman 4 SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Guarani	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Galway	Ireland	Record low maximum temperature	15.4 C (59.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Nambour Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Florence	United States	Record high minimum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kipawa Laniel	Canada	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt R	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Hovlandsdal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gold	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Myers Page Fld AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Imperial	United States	Record high maximum temperature	45.0 C (113.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Sonora	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bananal (Pcd)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Myakka Rvr Sp	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.8 mm (3.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Yakataga AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Paradis 7 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Winnibigoshish Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Columbus	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Lexington Bluegrass AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Takle	Norway	Record daily precipitation	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Jakutsk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	12.1 C (53.8 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Montville "Craglands"	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Galdinopolis	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Westerland	Germany	Record daily precipitation	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Maria Alotepec	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
San Felipe Usila	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	172.5 mm (6.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Huelva	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	43.0 C (109.4 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Maricopa	United States	Record low minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tarpon Spgs Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Port Washington	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Mtn View 91	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Myers Page Fld AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tsu	Japan	Record daily precipitation	73.5 mm (2.9 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Isla Perez	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Jerez de la Frontera	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	44.4 C (111.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Jaen (Instituto)	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	40.6 C (105.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Arcadia	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Everglades	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.3 mm (3.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Donalsonville 1 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Roundup	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Esperance Downs Research STN	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	15.1 C (59.2 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Sao Jose Do Barreiro	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	54.7 mm (2.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
List/Sylt	Germany	Record daily precipitation	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Chula Vista	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Merredin Research Station	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Narrogin	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Iturbide	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Perth Regional Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

596 records

Records set or tied on 19 August 1982 by type: Highest daily maximum 74, Lowest daily maximum 52, Highest daily minimum 174, Lowest daily minimum 47, Heaviest daily rainfall 249.

Records on 19 August 1982 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	74
Lowest daily maximum	52
Highest daily minimum	174
Lowest daily minimum	47
Heaviest daily rainfall	249
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 19 August 1982 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 22, daily 572.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

447 broken records

Margins by which the 447 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 139.7. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

19 August 1982

Top 20 records on 19 August 1982 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
19 August 1982	Warroad, US	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	72 years	68 of 100 (Major)
19 August 1982	Durham, CA	daily rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	29.3 mm (1.2 in)	88 years	61 of 100 (Major)
19 August 1982	Ntazepetrovsk, RU	daily rain	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	36 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Pine Bluffs, US	daily rain	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	52 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Tajima, JP	daily rain	74.5 mm (2.9 in)	59.6 mm (2.3 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Gigant, RU	daily rain	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	41 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Los Reyes, MX	daily rain	164.6 mm (6.5 in)	139.7 mm (5.5 in)	3 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Morgan 1 W, US	monthly low min	11.7 C (53.1 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	85 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Tottori, JP	daily rain	68.5 mm (2.7 in)	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	20 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Balasore, IN	daily rain	116.3 mm (4.6 in)	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	37 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Everglades, US	monthly low min	15.6 C (60.1 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	32 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Aldeia, BR	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	40 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Kauffman 4 SSE, US	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	3 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Guarani, BR	daily rain	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	28.8 mm (1.1 in)	12 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Galway, IE	daily low max	15.4 C (59.7 F)	0.2 C (0.4 F)	100 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Nambour Bowling Club, AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	52 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Florence, US	daily high min	27.8 C (82.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	88 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Kipawa Laniel, CA	daily rain	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	59 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt R, US	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	31 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
19 August 1982	Hovlandsdal, NO	daily rain	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	44 years	36 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

1797 to 1982

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1982. 1982 had 596 records.

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

Records on 08-19 in each year
Year	Records
1797	2
1800	1
1809	1
1820	1
1830	2
1831	1
1838	2
1844	2
1845	1
1846	1
1849	2
1857	1
1861	1
1862	1
1864	2
1867	1
1870	2
1872	1
1873	1
1874	1
1875	2
1877	3
1879	1
1880	1
1881	1
1882	1
1883	2
1884	2
1885	2
1886	2
1887	2
1888	1
1889	1
1890	4
1892	5
1893	2
1894	2
1895	1
1896	2
1897	2
1898	3
1899	9
1900	5
1901	13
1902	4
1903	6
1904	14
1905	16
1906	37
1907	17
1908	5
1909	24
1910	17
1911	9
1912	18
1913	9
1914	39
1915	34
1916	74
1917	200
1918	33
1919	31
1920	36
1921	22
1922	71
1923	97
1924	174
1925	154
1926	179
1927	343
1928	112
1929	163
1930	182
1931	207
1932	373
1933	328
1934	438
1935	389
1936	679
1937	305
1938	321
1939	432
1940	687
1941	431
1942	308
1943	596
1944	259
1945	427
1946	427
1947	896
1948	371
1949	411
1950	893
1951	362
1952	475
1953	412
1954	576
1955	780
1956	831
1957	325
1958	374
1959	733
1960	864
1961	425
1962	419
1963	570
1964	455
1965	550
1966	1,095
1967	839
1968	948
1969	501
1970	468
1971	376
1972	547
1973	519
1974	466
1975	561
1976	1,144
1977	938
1978	863
1979	1,492
1980	648
1981	1,004
1982	596
1983	1,387
1984	598
1985	713
1986	848
1987	811
1988	982
1989	660
1990	871
1991	656
1992	1,094
1993	771
1994	798
1995	1,542
1996	800
1997	958
1998	717
1999	980
2000	954
2001	1,027
2002	1,389
2003	918
2004	1,310
2005	920
2006	850
2007	1,360
2008	1,186
2009	1,039
2010	1,440
2011	975
2012	1,377
2013	765
2014	701
2015	989
2016	931
2017	439
2018	471
2019	601
2020	1,271
2021	1,366
2022	1,198
2023	910
2024	568
2025	786
2026	755

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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 2026-10-15 (15 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	417
20 to 40	22
40 to 60	6
60 to 80	0
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1