Weather Records on 3 October 2022

478 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 3 October 2022. Highest significance: Warburton Airfield, AU.

Key Facts for 3 October 2022

On 3 October 2022, 478 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
236 were record highs and 121 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 48 monthly and 430 daily.
Warburton Airfield set a monthly record daily precipitation of 73.2 mm (2.9 in) on 3 October 2022.
Across 159 earlier years (1834 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 457 records.

Record Map

478 stations

478 station records on 3 October 2022 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 3 October 2022: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Warburton Airfield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Nikolaevskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
El Morro Natl Mon	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Jinan	China	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Tonghe	China	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Polotsk	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Mahackala	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Gracemere Russell St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Novgorod	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Del Norte 3ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Hammonton 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Borisov	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Newark Ag Farm	United States	Record low maximum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Estell Manor	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.1 mm (4.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Laghouat	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	21.0 C (69.8 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record low maximum temperature	1.3 C (34.3 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Warsaw 2 NW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Troickoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Brunswick	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Berezino	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Ljuban	Russia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Clearbrook	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Sapporo	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	17.7 C (63.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Velikie Luki	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Plant City	United States	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bogorodskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Painted Desert Np	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Moorestown 4 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Elec	Russia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lambertville	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Eleele 927	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Gorki	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Lushi	China	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hujirt	Mongolia	Record low minimum temperature	-17.0 C (1.4 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Isparta	Turkey	Record high minimum temperature	13.8 C (56.8 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Mackenzie	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Moose Pass 3NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Guantanamo Bay NAS	Cuba	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sultan Ismail Petra	Malaysia	Record daily precipitation	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Petrokrepost	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Chany	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-9.2 C (15.4 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Belfast	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Hysham	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sharcovschina	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Tsetserleg	Mongolia	Record low minimum temperature	-14.4 C (6.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Imperial	United States	Record high minimum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mtn Lake	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Saint Ignatius	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Sodus 1W	United States	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Medora	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Elma	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
W Lawai 931	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Annapolis US Naval Academy Aso	United States	Record low maximum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Zhlobin	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Nancheng	China	Record high minimum temperature	26.8 C (80.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Asahikawa	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tomakomai	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	17.9 C (64.2 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ulaan-Gom	Mongolia	Record low minimum temperature	-10.6 C (12.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Lichinga	Mozambique	Record low minimum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

478 records

Records set or tied on 3 October 2022 by type: Highest daily maximum 94, Lowest daily maximum 50, Highest daily minimum 142, Lowest daily minimum 71, Heaviest daily rainfall 121.

Records on 3 October 2022 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	94
Lowest daily maximum	50
Highest daily minimum	142
Lowest daily minimum	71
Heaviest daily rainfall	121
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 3 October 2022 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 48, daily 430.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

394 broken records

Margins by which the 394 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 63.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

3 October 2022

Top 20 records on 3 October 2022 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
3 October 2022	Warburton Airfield, AU	monthly rain	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	47 years	70 of 100 (Major)
3 October 2022	Nikolaevskoe, RU	daily rain	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	69 years	66 of 100 (Major)
3 October 2022	El Morro Natl Mon, US	daily rain	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	40 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Jinan, CN	daily rain	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	50.9 mm (2.0 in)	24 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Tonghe, CN	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	68 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Polotsk, BY	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	20.7 mm (0.8 in)	15 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Mahackala, RU	daily low min	0.0 C (32.0 F)	4.8 C (8.6 F)	104 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Gracemere Russell St, AU	daily rain	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	17.7 mm (0.7 in)	92 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Novgorod, RU	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	3 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Del Norte 3ENE, US	daily rain	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	80 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Hammonton 1 NE, US	daily rain	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	60 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Borisov, BY	monthly rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	12 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Newark Ag Farm, US	daily low max	10.0 C (50.0 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	122 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Estell Manor, US	daily rain	101.1 mm (4.0 in)	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	7 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Laghouat, DZ	daily high min	21.0 C (69.8 F)	1.0 C (1.8 F)	100 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Sarajevo, BA	daily low max	1.3 C (34.3 F)	4.0 C (7.2 F)	85 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Warsaw 2 NW, US	daily low max	11.7 C (53.1 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	104 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Troickoe, RU	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	12.3 mm (0.5 in)	51 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Brunswick, US	daily low max	20.6 C (69.1 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	84 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
3 October 2022	Berezino, BY	monthly rain	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	10.0 mm (0.4 in)	12 years	40 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

1834 to 2022

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1834 to 2022. 2022 had 478 records.

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

Records on 10-03 in each year
Year	Records
1834	1
1838	1
1841	1
1844	1
1849	1
1850	2
1853	1
1859	2
1864	4
1865	1
1867	1
1870	1
1872	2
1873	1
1875	1
1878	1
1879	1
1881	4
1882	1
1883	2
1885	1
1886	3
1887	1
1888	5
1889	2
1890	3
1891	5
1893	4
1894	3
1895	1
1897	4
1898	4
1899	7
1900	6
1901	6
1902	20
1903	3
1904	1
1905	7
1906	29
1907	5
1908	21
1909	13
1910	13
1911	22
1912	53
1913	17
1914	31
1915	13
1916	93
1917	77
1918	28
1919	46
1920	25
1921	82
1922	38
1923	46
1924	41
1925	171
1926	233
1927	335
1928	213
1929	223
1930	184
1931	256
1932	185
1933	178
1934	122
1935	423
1936	192
1937	386
1938	464
1939	352
1940	175
1941	662
1942	212
1943	306
1944	489
1945	521
1946	296
1947	725
1948	272
1949	426
1950	1,038
1951	706
1952	731
1953	645
1954	1,142
1955	426
1956	222
1957	469
1958	951
1959	704
1960	189
1961	804
1962	433
1963	431
1964	503
1965	281
1966	618
1967	610
1968	547
1969	624
1970	481
1971	511
1972	452
1973	613
1974	1,999
1975	809
1976	943
1977	480
1978	410
1979	573
1980	860
1981	1,138
1982	476
1983	648
1984	1,050
1985	1,013
1986	1,501
1987	1,324
1988	525
1989	906
1990	680
1991	862
1992	990
1993	926
1994	1,433
1995	1,249
1996	962
1997	1,085
1998	1,413
1999	1,683
2000	859
2001	846
2002	1,388
2003	1,107
2004	534
2005	1,406
2006	973
2007	872
2008	690
2009	1,322
2010	989
2011	1,024
2012	778
2013	856
2014	574
2015	824
2016	756
2017	1,064
2018	826
2019	1,427
2020	817
2021	635
2022	478
2023	1,024
2024	876
2025	733
2026	649

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Data for records on 2022-10-03: 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 10	348
10 to 20	31
20 to 30	11
30 to 40	2
40 to 50	0
50 to 60	1
60 to 70	1