Weather Records on 28 January 1983

1,546 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 28 January 1983. Highest significance: Fairmont, US.

Key Facts for 28 January 1983

On 28 January 1983, 1,546 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
1,102 were record highs and 81 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 56 monthly and 1,489 daily.
Fairmont set a monthly record daily precipitation of 83.8 mm (3.3 in) on 28 January 1983.
Across 160 earlier years (1796 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 486 records.

Record Map

1,546 stations

1,546 station records on 28 January 1983 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 28 January 1983: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Fairmont	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
Pilar (Sitio Recreio)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
New Delhi/Safdarjun	India	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Lubbock	United States	Record snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Sao Caetano	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	62.1 mm (2.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Borzja	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-15.6 C (3.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
L F Wade Intl AP Kindley Fld	Bermuda [United Kingdom]	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Virden	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	1.5 C (34.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gossweinstein	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Logan Utah St UNIV	United States	Record high maximum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Kremsmuenster	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	13.6 C (56.5 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Biskra	Algeria	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Pomerode	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Minnedosa	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	2.0 C (35.6 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Effingham	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Webster	United States	Record high minimum temperature	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Tacaratu	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Cottbus	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	11.2 C (52.2 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Plauen	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	10.5 C (50.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bernburg/Saale (Nord)	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.0 C (44.6 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Budapest	Hungary	Record high minimum temperature	8.7 C (47.7 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Sedona	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Branchville 6 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Salzburg	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	6.3 C (43.3 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Nordby (Fano)	Denmark	Record high minimum temperature	5.2 C (41.4 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kiev	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	7.5 C (45.5 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Odesa	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Cuyamaca	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Redlands	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Climax	United States	Record high maximum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Buique	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Nurnberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.4 C (45.3 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Drobeta Turnu Severin	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	16.8 C (62.2 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Williams	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pinopolis Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Jaguarari	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	56.3 mm (2.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Berlin-Dahlem	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	6.0 C (42.8 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Scipio	United States	Record high minimum temperature	0.6 C (33.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Regensburg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	10.1 C (50.2 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Fichtelberg/Oberfranken-Huttst	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	7.1 C (44.8 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Moosomin	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Uman	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	3.3 C (37.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Nikolaev	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	11.0 C (51.8 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Edmore 4NW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Maria Public AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bucuresti-Baneasa	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	16.8 C (62.2 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Skovorodino	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	-7.4 C (18.7 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Snow Creek Upper	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Abernathy	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Basin	United States	Record high minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Pedrinhas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Santana (Santana Do Brejo)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Maradi	Niger	Record low maximum temperature	21.6 C (70.9 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kursk	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	0.2 C (32.4 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Scott City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Tulia	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kaslo	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	6.5 C (43.7 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Vilnius	Lithuania	Record high maximum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,546 records

Records set or tied on 28 January 1983 by type: Highest daily maximum 513, Lowest daily maximum 21, Highest daily minimum 589, Lowest daily minimum 60, Heaviest daily rainfall 337, Heaviest daily snowfall 12, Deepest snow cover 14.

Records on 28 January 1983 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	513
Lowest daily maximum	21
Highest daily minimum	589
Lowest daily minimum	60
Heaviest daily rainfall	337
Heaviest daily snowfall	12
Deepest snow cover	14

Records on 28 January 1983 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 56, daily 1,489.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,369 broken records

Margins by which the 1,369 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 102.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

28 January 1983

Top 20 records on 28 January 1983 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
28 January 1983	Fairmont, US	monthly rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	73 years	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
28 January 1983	Pilar (Sitio Recreio), BR	daily rain	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	52 years	61 of 100 (Major)
28 January 1983	New Delhi/Safdarjun, IN	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	65 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Lubbock, US	daily snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	10.1 cm (4.0 in)	33 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Sao Caetano, BR	daily rain	62.1 mm (2.4 in)	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	1 year	47 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Borzja, RU	daily high min	-15.6 C (3.9 F)	7.1 C (12.8 F)	77 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	L F Wade Intl AP Kindley Fld, BM	daily rain	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	29.9 mm (1.2 in)	28 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Virden, CA	daily high max	1.5 C (34.7 F)	4.3 C (7.7 F)	91 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Gossweinstein, DE	daily rain	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	39 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Logan Utah St UNIV, US	daily high max	11.1 C (52.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	86 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Kremsmuenster, AT	daily high max	13.6 C (56.5 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	81 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Biskra, DZ	daily low min	2.8 C (37.0 F)	0.2 C (0.4 F)	95 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Pomerode, BR	daily rain	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	17 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Minnedosa, CA	daily high max	2.0 C (35.6 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	94 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Heinersreuth-Vollhof, DE	daily high max	10.6 C (51.1 F)	2.0 C (3.6 F)	80 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Effingham, US	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	59 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Webster, US	daily high min	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	2.7 C (4.9 F)	86 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Tacaratu, BR	daily rain	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	24.2 mm (1.0 in)	57 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Cottbus, DE	daily high max	11.2 C (52.2 F)	2.0 C (3.6 F)	80 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
28 January 1983	Plauen, DE	daily high max	10.5 C (50.9 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	80 years	37 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

1796 to 1983

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1796 to 1983. 1983 had 1,546 records.

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

Records on 01-28 in each year
Year	Records
1796	2
1809	1
1830	2
1834	2
1840	1
1843	1
1846	3
1848	2
1850	1
1854	1
1855	1
1857	2
1858	1
1865	1
1867	2
1869	2
1872	1
1873	1
1876	1
1880	2
1883	1
1884	1
1885	5
1888	1
1890	2
1891	1
1892	1
1893	2
1894	1
1895	10
1896	4
1897	6
1898	2
1899	1
1900	4
1901	13
1902	3
1903	15
1904	13
1905	9
1906	19
1907	31
1908	22
1909	12
1910	48
1911	29
1912	18
1913	26
1914	87
1915	55
1916	247
1917	60
1918	104
1919	18
1920	94
1921	61
1922	45
1923	51
1924	126
1925	256
1926	82
1927	143
1928	177
1929	184
1930	133
1931	407
1932	187
1933	142
1934	262
1935	360
1936	603
1937	194
1938	272
1939	247
1940	522
1941	322
1942	558
1943	405
1944	873
1945	251
1946	104
1947	598
1948	1,024
1949	1,301
1950	485
1951	626
1952	287
1953	414
1954	781
1955	402
1956	665
1957	834
1958	647
1959	381
1960	320
1961	585
1962	521
1963	1,099
1964	148
1965	511
1966	1,096
1967	817
1968	1,016
1969	998
1970	948
1971	972
1972	806
1973	827
1974	1,408
1975	744
1976	972
1977	778
1978	646
1979	1,628
1980	763
1981	827
1982	459
1983	1,546
1984	771
1985	657
1986	1,295
1987	1,094
1988	728
1989	1,649
1990	1,180
1991	636
1992	1,382
1993	1,182
1994	1,586
1995	1,080
1996	830
1997	1,159
1998	847
1999	1,399
2000	1,550
2001	1,198
2002	2,473
2003	952
2004	931
2005	1,009
2006	1,222
2007	629
2008	1,011
2009	1,394
2010	717
2011	514
2012	431
2013	1,291
2014	871
2015	1,141
2016	754
2017	410
2018	648
2019	624
2020	548
2021	814
2022	375
2023	499
2024	1,799
2025	579
2026	541

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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 20	1,335
20 to 40	26
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	2