Weather Records on 11 August 1992

928 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 11 August 1992. Highest significance: Machilipatnam, IN.

Key Facts for 11 August 1992

On 11 August 1992, 928 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
436 were record highs and 176 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 23 were all-time records, 39 monthly and 866 daily.
Machilipatnam set a daily record precipitation of 261.9 mm (10.3 in) on 11 August 1992.
Across 161 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 458 records.

Record Map

928 stations

928 station records on 11 August 1992 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 11 August 1992: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Machilipatnam	India	Record daily precipitation	261.9 mm (10.3 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Trousdale 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	125.5 mm (4.9 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Kingman	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Caruthersville	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Fredrika	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	52.2 mm (2.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Hamlin 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Ponce 4 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Salekhard	Russia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Siksjo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Enid	United States	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Moorleah (Preolenna Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.6 mm (2.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Carson City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Port Townsend	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Tartu	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	34.7 C (94.5 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Asele	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Lamar	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Wynyard (Jackson Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Ringarooma (Charles Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Voru	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Tallinn	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	34.2 C (93.6 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Kaunisvaara	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Hampshire (Neena Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Kuusiku	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	33.4 C (92.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Lycksele_A	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	53.4 mm (2.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Preolenna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Waratah (Mount Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Minsk	Belarus	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Narva	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	34.0 C (93.2 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Vilnius	Lithuania	Record high minimum temperature	19.7 C (67.5 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Great Bend 3WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kellatier	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Pioneer (Main Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ameca	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Kinsley 2E	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sarah 3 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.7 mm (3.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Gladstone (Old Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.6 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Minsk	Belarus	Record high maximum temperature	34.4 C (93.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Parnu	Estonia	Record high minimum temperature	19.3 C (66.7 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Pajala	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lakeview 2 NNW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
San Rafael-Civic Ctr	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Senatobia	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Buckhorn	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Windermere (Acacia House)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.4 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	5.1 C (41.2 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Uppsala_Aut	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	18.1 C (64.6 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hiram	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Tartu-Toravere	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	35.1 C (95.2 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bavertrask	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Tarendo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Eudora	United States	Record daily precipitation	77.7 mm (3.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Burdett 3S	United States	Record daily precipitation	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Great Western (Seppelt)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Montagu (Montagu Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.6 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Sodankyla AWS	Finland	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Wharton	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Tewkesbury	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.2 mm (2.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Vidsel	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Inman 5SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Yolla (Sea View)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.4 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

928 records

Records set or tied on 11 August 1992 by type: Highest daily maximum 250, Lowest daily maximum 79, Highest daily minimum 186, Lowest daily minimum 97, Heaviest daily rainfall 315, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 11 August 1992 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	250
Lowest daily maximum	79
Highest daily minimum	186
Lowest daily minimum	97
Heaviest daily rainfall	315
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 11 August 1992 by timescale: all-time 23, monthly 39, daily 866.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

746 broken records

Margins by which the 746 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 235.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

11 August 1992

Top 20 records on 11 August 1992 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
11 August 1992	Machilipatnam, IN	daily rain	261.9 mm (10.3 in)	235.2 mm (9.3 in)	83 years	73 of 100 (Major)
11 August 1992	Trousdale 1 NE, US	daily rain	125.5 mm (4.9 in)	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	72 years	68 of 100 (Major)
11 August 1992	Kingman, US	daily rain	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	84 years	66 of 100 (Major)
11 August 1992	Caruthersville, US	daily rain	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	51 years	62 of 100 (Major)
11 August 1992	Fredrika, SE	monthly rain	52.2 mm (2.1 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	31 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Hamlin 1SW, US	daily rain	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	72 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Ponce 4 E, PR	monthly low min	16.7 C (62.1 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	91 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Salekhard, RU	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	9.2 mm (0.36 in)	92 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Siksjo, SE	daily rain	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	22.0 mm (0.9 in)	44 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Enid, US	daily rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	75 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Moorleah (Preolenna Road), AU	daily rain	55.6 mm (2.2 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	45 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Carson City, US	all-time high min	21.7 C (71.1 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	62 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Port Townsend, US	monthly high min	18.3 C (64.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	97 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Tartu, EE	daily high max	34.7 C (94.5 F)	6.7 C (12.1 F)	81 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Asele, SE	daily rain	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	19.9 mm (0.8 in)	38 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Lamar, US	monthly rain	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	89 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Wynyard (Jackson Street), AU	daily rain	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	21 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Ringarooma (Charles Street), AU	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	77 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Voru, EE	all-time high max	35.6 C (96.1 F)	1.2 C (2.2 F)	60 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 1992	Tallinn, EE	all-time high max	34.2 C (93.6 F)	1.9 C (3.4 F)	56 years	48 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

1793 to 1992

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1992. 1992 had 928 records.

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

Records on 08-11 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1796	1
1811	1
1815	2
1838	1
1839	1
1841	1
1851	1
1855	1
1858	1
1861	2
1862	1
1863	1
1864	6
1865	1
1866	6
1869	4
1871	1
1875	1
1879	2
1881	1
1883	1
1885	1
1888	1
1889	4
1890	4
1891	1
1892	4
1893	1
1894	1
1895	2
1896	5
1897	3
1898	2
1899	3
1900	4
1901	4
1902	13
1903	12
1904	19
1905	9
1906	6
1907	8
1908	10
1909	41
1910	9
1911	24
1912	46
1913	43
1914	26
1915	27
1916	64
1917	217
1918	29
1919	18
1920	54
1921	201
1922	98
1923	80
1924	149
1925	219
1926	140
1927	190
1928	174
1929	354
1930	471
1931	453
1932	281
1933	416
1934	620
1935	499
1936	541
1937	356
1938	315
1939	389
1940	359
1941	807
1942	390
1943	345
1944	936
1945	401
1946	419
1947	709
1948	306
1949	471
1950	320
1951	296
1952	417
1953	283
1954	536
1955	319
1956	457
1957	305
1958	494
1959	337
1960	461
1961	429
1962	662
1963	493
1964	677
1965	793
1966	1,037
1967	1,071
1968	619
1969	533
1970	526
1971	711
1972	823
1973	451
1974	596
1975	753
1976	529
1977	845
1978	433
1979	797
1980	929
1981	645
1982	1,232
1983	1,095
1984	822
1985	804
1986	563
1987	885
1988	1,119
1989	983
1990	760
1991	822
1992	928
1993	840
1994	1,173
1995	1,324
1996	1,147
1997	1,512
1998	1,232
1999	1,152
2000	924
2001	811
2002	1,152
2003	1,601
2004	1,478
2005	1,031
2006	896
2007	1,428
2008	945
2009	836
2010	2,289
2011	1,106
2012	953
2013	470
2014	556
2015	696
2016	1,340
2017	619
2018	861
2019	758
2020	688
2021	834
2022	661
2023	757
2024	643
2025	722
2026	765

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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 50	740
50 to 100	5
100 to 150	0
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	1