Weather Records on 25 March 1989

777 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 25 March 1989. Highest significance: Westgrove, AU.

Key Facts for 25 March 1989

On 25 March 1989, 777 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
290 were record highs and 70 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 36 monthly and 740 daily.
Westgrove set a daily record precipitation of 82.0 mm (3.2 in) on 25 March 1989.
Across 164 earlier years (1806 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 468 records.

Record Map

777 stations

777 station records on 25 March 1989 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 25 March 1989: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Westgrove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Forest Vale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Fossil Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Bidyadanga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	126.0 mm (5.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
New Salem	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Quendon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.4 mm (2.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Cherry Valley 2 NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Motozintla (Smn)	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Plymouth-Kingston	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Berlin 5 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Owen Springs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Moorabinda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Goldfield	United States	Record daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Plainfield	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gibb River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	118.0 mm (4.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Quanbun Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Spencer 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Grahamville	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Berlin	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Jakutsk	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-7.5 C (18.5 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Cavenagh	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Blakely	United States	Record low maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Towanda 1 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Wellsboro 4 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Eurombah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Pretoria-New Cemetry	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	41.5 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Erldunda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Breckenridge	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Mabel Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	119.0 mm (4.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Dora Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.8 mm (1.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hastings Dam 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Cavendish	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bond Springs Homestead	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bowling Alley Point (Poplars)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Steamboat Springs	United States	Record high maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Beechwood	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Waverley Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgton 3 NW	United States	Record daily snowfall	24.6 cm (9.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
E Wareham	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Ipswich	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Blackwater Dam	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Edward Macdowell Lake	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Hamilton Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Burketown Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	26.0 C (78.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Goondiwindi Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	22.6 C (72.7 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Juba	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Troy 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Readsboro 1 SE	United States	Record daily snowfall	21.1 cm (8.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Barre Falls Dam	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Chemung	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Orono	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Le Roy	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hereford	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bellows Falls	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Vernon	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Atengo (Smn)	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	-4.4 C (24.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Olenja Rechka	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	8.8 C (47.8 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Covington 2 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Spanish Fk Pwr House	United States	Record high minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Dare	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

777 records

Records set or tied on 25 March 1989 by type: Highest daily maximum 128, Lowest daily maximum 47, Highest daily minimum 162, Lowest daily minimum 23, Heaviest daily rainfall 338, Heaviest daily snowfall 64, Deepest snow cover 15.

Records on 25 March 1989 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	128
Lowest daily maximum	47
Highest daily minimum	162
Lowest daily minimum	23
Heaviest daily rainfall	338
Heaviest daily snowfall	64
Deepest snow cover	15

Records on 25 March 1989 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 36, daily 740.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

685 broken records

Margins by which the 685 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 360.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

25 March 1989

Top 20 records on 25 March 1989 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
25 March 1989	Westgrove, AU	daily rain	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	78 years	61 of 100 (Major)
25 March 1989	Forest Vale, AU	daily rain	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	45.8 mm (1.8 in)	78 years	60 of 100 (Major)
25 March 1989	Fossil Downs, AU	daily rain	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	62 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Bidyadanga, AU	daily rain	126.0 mm (5.0 in)	113.3 mm (4.5 in)	18 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	New Salem, US	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	11.9 cm (4.7 in)	91 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Quendon, AU	daily rain	65.4 mm (2.6 in)	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	32 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Cherry Valley 2 NNE, US	daily rain	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	20 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Motozintla (Smn), MX	daily low max	20.0 C (68.0 F)	6.7 C (12.1 F)	31 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Plymouth-Kingston, US	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	68 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Berlin 5 S, US	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	23 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Owen Springs, AU	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	89 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Moorabinda, AU	daily rain	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	53.4 mm (2.1 in)	12 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Goldfield, US	daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	82 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Plainfield, US	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	58 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Gibb River, AU	daily rain	118.0 mm (4.6 in)	74.0 mm (2.9 in)	0 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Quanbun Downs, AU	daily rain	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	60 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Spencer 2 N, US	daily rain	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	42 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Grahamville, AU	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	26 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Berlin, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	2.6 cm (1.0 in)	101 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
25 March 1989	Jakutsk, RU	daily high min	-7.5 C (18.5 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	88 years	42 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

1806 to 1989

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1806 to 1989. 1989 had 777 records.

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

Records on 03-25 in each year
Year	Records
1806	1
1830	1
1837	1
1841	1
1847	1
1850	2
1851	1
1857	1
1861	1
1862	2
1865	2
1867	2
1868	1
1869	1
1870	1
1871	3
1872	1
1873	2
1876	4
1877	1
1878	2
1879	3
1880	1
1882	2
1885	2
1886	3
1887	1
1888	2
1889	4
1890	4
1892	1
1893	2
1894	1
1895	1
1896	10
1897	6
1898	1
1899	6
1900	2
1901	11
1902	13
1903	16
1904	21
1905	22
1906	20
1907	10
1908	8
1909	26
1910	65
1911	14
1912	22
1913	125
1914	68
1915	21
1916	26
1917	33
1918	25
1919	38
1920	82
1921	73
1922	33
1923	80
1924	45
1925	101
1926	289
1927	113
1928	265
1929	473
1930	216
1931	95
1932	283
1933	331
1934	402
1935	377
1936	227
1937	539
1938	427
1939	606
1940	1,544
1941	351
1942	518
1943	227
1944	373
1945	816
1946	528
1947	395
1948	274
1949	421
1950	348
1951	489
1952	429
1953	598
1954	667
1955	1,548
1956	849
1957	534
1958	355
1959	251
1960	1,108
1961	369
1962	330
1963	569
1964	893
1965	1,553
1966	536
1967	655
1968	787
1969	938
1970	297
1971	699
1972	439
1973	681
1974	1,110
1975	690
1976	472
1977	553
1978	725
1979	768
1980	382
1981	1,059
1982	540
1983	1,146
1984	704
1985	424
1986	660
1987	859
1988	1,250
1989	777
1990	1,204
1991	828
1992	642
1993	834
1994	1,210
1995	1,181
1996	1,481
1997	777
1998	1,222
1999	793
2000	654
2001	1,159
2002	814
2003	463
2004	1,395
2005	695
2006	1,000
2007	1,926
2008	1,455
2009	910
2010	756
2011	738
2012	1,113
2013	2,029
2014	986
2015	567
2016	511
2017	596
2018	784
2019	421
2020	882
2021	709
2022	957
2023	1,805
2024	806
2025	1,707
2026	2,283

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Data for records on 1989-03-25: 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	642
50 to 100	22
100 to 150	14
150 to 200	4
200 to 250	1
250 to 300	1
300 to 350	0
350 to 400	1