Weather Records on 15 July 1948

397 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 15 July 1948. Highest significance: Hutchinson River, US.

Key Facts for 15 July 1948

On 15 July 1948, 397 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
87 were record highs and 117 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 8 monthly and 387 daily.
Hutchinson River set a daily record precipitation of 119.6 mm (4.7 in) on 15 July 1948.
Across 160 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 455 records.

Record Map

397 stations

397 station records on 15 July 1948 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 15 July 1948: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Hutchinson River	United States	Record daily precipitation	119.6 mm (4.7 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Wellington	United States	Record daily precipitation	112.8 mm (4.4 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Eckman 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Towner 2 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Bhagwanpur	India	Record daily precipitation	128.0 mm (5.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bansgaon	India	Record daily precipitation	195.3 mm (7.7 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Basti	India	Record daily precipitation	172.0 mm (6.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Pleasanton	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Hays 1 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Solomons	United States	Record daily precipitation	115.3 mm (4.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bottineau	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Jamkhed	India	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Chita	Russia	Record daily precipitation	41.8 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Salem	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Westhope	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gann Valley 4NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Girona (Antic Institut)	Spain	Record low minimum temperature	6.3 C (43.3 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Washington 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Hope	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Tirupati	India	Record daily precipitation	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Whiteriver 1 SW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.1 C (106.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
1 WSW Princeton	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Frankfort Downtown	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Sihccajavri	Norway	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Clayton Muni Air Pk	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bisbee	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
New Burnside	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Forbes (Camp Street)	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	-3.2 C (26.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bratsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Cottonwood Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Winfield 3NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tulsa	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Catawba Hospital	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Williamson	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.0 mm (2.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Sturt Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Sheohar	India	Record daily precipitation	104.1 mm (4.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	20.7 C (69.3 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Columbus	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Alice Springs Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Kunch	India	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Mescalero	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Newkirk 5NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Khalilabad	India	Record daily precipitation	110.5 mm (4.4 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Maharajganj	India	Record daily precipitation	95.8 mm (3.8 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Linton	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Pollock	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Gorakhpur	India	Record daily precipitation	124.0 mm (4.9 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Uil	Kazakhstan	Record low minimum temperature	4.2 C (39.6 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Wilsonville	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Mohall	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Willow City	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Cleveland 1	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Alice Springs Post Office	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Wrixum/Fohr	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	14.2 C (57.6 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Valapady	India	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Hata	India	Record daily precipitation	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Springerville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Fe	United States	Record low minimum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Blackwell 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Kiolakaa 7	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

397 records

Records set or tied on 15 July 1948 by type: Highest daily maximum 44, Lowest daily maximum 74, Highest daily minimum 43, Lowest daily minimum 43, Heaviest daily rainfall 192, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 15 July 1948 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	44
Lowest daily maximum	74
Highest daily minimum	43
Lowest daily minimum	43
Heaviest daily rainfall	192
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 15 July 1948 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 8, daily 387.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

313 broken records

Margins by which the 313 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 300.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

15 July 1948

Top 20 records on 15 July 1948 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
15 July 1948	Hutchinson River, US	daily rain	119.6 mm (4.7 in)	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	53 years	61 of 100 (Major)
15 July 1948	Wellington, US	monthly rain	112.8 mm (4.4 in)	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	22 years	61 of 100 (Major)
15 July 1948	Eckman 2 SE, US	daily rain	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	41 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Towner 2 NE, US	daily rain	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	40 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Bhagwanpur, IN	daily rain	128.0 mm (5.0 in)	93.7 mm (3.7 in)	23 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Bansgaon, IN	daily rain	195.3 mm (7.7 in)	81.0 mm (3.2 in)	43 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Basti, IN	daily rain	172.0 mm (6.8 in)	83.6 mm (3.3 in)	43 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Pleasanton, US	daily rain	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	42 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Hays 1 S, US	daily rain	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	43.0 mm (1.7 in)	42 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Solomons, US	daily rain	115.3 mm (4.5 in)	75.4 mm (3.0 in)	3 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Bottineau, US	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	43 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Jamkhed, IN	daily rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	35 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Chita, RU	daily rain	41.8 mm (1.6 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	48 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Salem, US	daily rain	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	21 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Westhope, US	daily rain	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	32 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Gann Valley 4NW, US	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	48 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Girona (Antic Institut), ES	monthly low min	6.3 C (43.3 F)	2.7 C (4.9 F)	33 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Washington 1 W, US	daily rain	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	36 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Mt Hope, US	daily rain	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	29 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
15 July 1948	Tirupati, IN	daily rain	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	27 years	35 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 1948

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1948. 1948 had 397 records.

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

Records on 07-15 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1802	1
1808	1
1824	2
1829	1
1832	1
1833	1
1838	1
1839	1
1840	2
1866	1
1868	2
1874	1
1876	1
1877	2
1879	3
1880	1
1881	2
1883	2
1884	2
1885	1
1886	2
1888	1
1889	1
1890	5
1891	4
1892	4
1893	3
1894	6
1895	4
1896	2
1897	2
1898	10
1899	1
1900	1
1901	7
1902	4
1903	24
1904	9
1905	1
1906	10
1907	8
1908	7
1909	7
1910	14
1911	11
1912	44
1913	19
1914	35
1915	34
1916	27
1917	134
1918	33
1919	59
1920	78
1921	55
1922	111
1923	120
1924	126
1925	137
1926	487
1927	151
1928	367
1929	213
1930	503
1931	591
1932	649
1933	205
1934	554
1935	208
1936	905
1937	279
1938	227
1939	394
1940	320
1941	444
1942	275
1943	338
1944	228
1945	693
1946	421
1947	373
1948	397
1949	455
1950	503
1951	606
1952	825
1953	398
1954	784
1955	612
1956	351
1957	304
1958	859
1959	411
1960	576
1961	386
1962	724
1963	291
1964	670
1965	282
1966	494
1967	1,419
1968	661
1969	670
1970	542
1971	552
1972	681
1973	800
1974	692
1975	869
1976	790
1977	766
1978	815
1979	585
1980	1,168
1981	646
1982	938
1983	1,241
1984	841
1985	793
1986	773
1987	968
1988	1,157
1989	827
1990	1,202
1991	589
1992	904
1993	1,198
1994	1,027
1995	1,347
1996	1,076
1997	688
1998	1,170
1999	1,428
2000	1,276
2001	1,004
2002	1,177
2003	1,256
2004	714
2005	932
2006	1,535
2007	1,171
2008	532
2009	816
2010	941
2011	989
2012	927
2013	761
2014	1,016
2015	547
2016	672
2017	467
2018	645
2019	561
2020	614
2021	674
2022	621
2023	1,157
2024	823
2025	720
2026	961

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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 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 50	304
50 to 100	8
100 to 150	0
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	1