Weather Records on 29 October 2010

547 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 29 October 2010. Highest significance: Yaninee, AU.

Key Facts for 29 October 2010

On 29 October 2010, 547 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
245 were record highs and 146 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 19 monthly and 527 daily.
Yaninee set a daily record precipitation of 38.0 mm (1.5 in) on 29 October 2010.
Across 156 earlier years (1837 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 469 records.

Record Map

547 stations

547 station records on 29 October 2010 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 29 October 2010: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Yaninee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Nullarbor	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.6 mm (1.2 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Hiltaba	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Karcultaby	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Poochera	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.2 mm (1.6 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Elliston	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Penong (Penalumba)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Smoky Bay	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Cuatotolapan	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Courela (Lindarnoe)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Lisboa Geofisica	Portugal	Record daily precipitation	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Wudinna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
San Francisco	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	87.1 mm (3.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Ceduna (Maltee)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Port Kenny (Mount Cooper)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Tonsina	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Cook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Wedge	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Bute: Rothesay	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Yeelana (Brimpton Lake)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Kyancutta	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Tarcoola (Lake Everard)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lock (Terrah Winds)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Ramos Arizpe (Smn)	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Crater Lake Nps HQ	United States	Record snow depth	94.0 cm (37.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Penong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Port Kenny	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Irkutsk	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Wirrulla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Healdsburg	United States	Record low maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Tekirdag	Turkey	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cataloochee	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Tepeji del Rio	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Alexandria	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Plant City	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Timpanogos Cave	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Wirrulla (Pimbena)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Stradbroke Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
San Juan L M Marin Intl AP	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Hope (Fairview)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Parafield Airport	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	20.5 C (68.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Urunga (Sunset Place)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.6 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Coatepec de Los Olivos	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mys Shmidta	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-0.8 C (30.6 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
California	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-8.3 C (17.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Bursa	Turkey	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Dar Es Salaam Airpo	Tanzania	Record high maximum temperature	34.6 C (94.3 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
San Rafael-Civic Ctr	United States	Record low maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Maria Ecatepec	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Maria Jacatepec	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Juan Rodriguez Clara	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Soljanka	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	5.4 C (41.7 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Cuernavaca (Dge)	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Tulun	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	3.4 C (38.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Monte Vista 2W	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-13.9 C (7.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Bethel AP	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Tepelmeme de Morelos	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Espinal (Cfe)	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Balagansk	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	10.7 C (51.3 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
McGregor	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

547 records

Records set or tied on 29 October 2010 by type: Highest daily maximum 162, Lowest daily maximum 82, Highest daily minimum 83, Lowest daily minimum 64, Heaviest daily rainfall 147, Heaviest daily snowfall 3, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 29 October 2010 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	162
Lowest daily maximum	82
Highest daily minimum	83
Lowest daily minimum	64
Heaviest daily rainfall	147
Heaviest daily snowfall	3
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 29 October 2010 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 19, daily 527.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

396 broken records

Margins by which the 396 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

29 October 2010

Top 20 records on 29 October 2010 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
29 October 2010	Yaninee, AU	daily rain	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	75 years	71 of 100 (Major)
29 October 2010	Nullarbor, AU	daily rain	29.6 mm (1.2 in)	22.5 mm (0.9 in)	72 years	71 of 100 (Major)
29 October 2010	Hiltaba, AU	daily rain	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	31.9 mm (1.3 in)	57 years	66 of 100 (Major)
29 October 2010	Karcultaby, AU	daily rain	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	57 years	65 of 100 (Major)
29 October 2010	Poochera, AU	daily rain	40.2 mm (1.6 in)	24.5 mm (1.0 in)	56 years	65 of 100 (Major)
29 October 2010	Elliston, AU	daily rain	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	12.3 mm (0.5 in)	119 years	62 of 100 (Major)
29 October 2010	Penong (Penalumba), AU	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	77 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Smoky Bay, AU	daily rain	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	22.0 mm (0.9 in)	44 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Cuatotolapan, MX	daily rain	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	44 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Courela (Lindarnoe), AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	35 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Lisboa Geofisica, PT	daily rain	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	47 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Wudinna, AU	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	18.1 mm (0.7 in)	57 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	San Francisco, MX	daily rain	87.1 mm (3.4 in)	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	24 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Ceduna (Maltee), AU	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	55 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Port Kenny (Mount Cooper), AU	daily rain	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	14.3 mm (0.6 in)	44 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Tonsina, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	92 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Cook, AU	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	19 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Mount Wedge, AU	daily rain	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	2.3 mm (0.09 in)	119 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Bute: Rothesay, GB	daily rain	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	24.0 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
29 October 2010	Yeelana (Brimpton Lake), AU	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	44 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

1837 to 2010

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1837 to 2010. 2010 had 547 records.

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

Records on 10-29 in each year
Year	Records
1837	1
1846	1
1849	1
1854	1
1856	1
1865	1
1869	3
1870	1
1871	1
1872	1
1873	3
1874	1
1877	1
1878	2
1880	1
1882	1
1883	2
1885	3
1886	1
1887	2
1888	4
1889	1
1890	11
1891	3
1892	3
1894	1
1895	1
1896	4
1897	2
1898	5
1899	8
1900	3
1901	7
1902	10
1903	4
1904	4
1905	9
1906	16
1907	15
1908	22
1909	22
1910	79
1911	10
1912	32
1913	67
1914	13
1915	47
1916	34
1917	74
1918	97
1919	53
1920	39
1921	49
1922	150
1923	85
1924	120
1925	698
1926	120
1927	350
1928	125
1929	226
1930	333
1931	199
1932	195
1933	301
1934	169
1935	553
1936	313
1937	919
1938	199
1939	159
1940	484
1941	284
1942	408
1943	256
1944	427
1945	471
1946	1,140
1947	323
1948	281
1949	434
1950	794
1951	203
1952	759
1953	529
1954	316
1955	477
1956	440
1957	379
1958	346
1959	740
1960	282
1961	792
1962	536
1963	422
1964	371
1965	575
1966	264
1967	382
1968	686
1969	679
1970	630
1971	1,773
1972	954
1973	602
1974	958
1975	387
1976	1,006
1977	474
1978	297
1979	488
1980	936
1981	474
1982	655
1983	287
1984	1,540
1985	874
1986	361
1987	940
1988	729
1989	1,033
1990	677
1991	2,609
1992	1,082
1993	868
1994	715
1995	693
1996	1,169
1997	1,155
1998	900
1999	791
2000	1,238
2001	965
2002	1,139
2003	1,406
2004	1,562
2005	974
2006	1,097
2007	1,120
2008	1,547
2009	1,250
2010	547
2011	852
2012	1,389
2013	774
2014	585
2015	553
2016	965
2017	979
2018	550
2019	1,902
2020	1,228
2021	812
2022	1,034
2023	1,264
2024	1,067
2025	419

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Data for records on 2010-10-29: 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 20	372
20 to 40	17
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	1