Weather Records on 31 July 1983

901 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 31 July 1983. Highest significance: Avon Park 2 W, US.

Key Facts for 31 July 1983

On 31 July 1983, 901 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
594 were record highs and 98 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 20 were all-time records, 25 monthly and 856 daily.
Avon Park 2 W set a monthly record daily precipitation of 187.2 mm (7.4 in) on 31 July 1983.
Across 155 earlier years (1804 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 468 records.

Record Map

901 stations

901 station records on 31 July 1983 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 31 July 1983: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Avon Park 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	187.2 mm (7.4 in)	81 of 100 (Exceptional)
Ochoco Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	77 of 100 (Major)
Kailiili 436	United States	Record daily precipitation	294.1 mm (11.6 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Keanae 346	United States	Record daily precipitation	162.6 mm (6.4 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Lupi Upper 442	United States	Record daily precipitation	330.2 mm (13.0 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Nanchital (Smn)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	215.9 mm (8.5 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Wishek	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Unskij Majak	Russia	Record daily precipitation	42.3 mm (1.7 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Kalacinsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Vjazemskaja	Russia	Record daily precipitation	80.7 mm (3.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Saratoga	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Rushville	United States	Record daily precipitation	98.8 mm (3.9 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Vicosa	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Sao Luiz Do Quitunde	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Kolpasevo	Russia	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Bradford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Mengzi	China	Record daily precipitation	102.8 mm (4.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Odesskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	37.7 mm (1.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Dalian	China	Record daily precipitation	166.4 mm (6.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Mc Minnville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Saentis	Switzerland	Record high maximum temperature	20.5 C (68.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Puckapunyal	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Port Stanley	Canada	Record daily precipitation	28.8 mm (1.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Almaty	Kazakhstan	Record high maximum temperature	43.4 C (110.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hilok	Russia	Record daily precipitation	39.3 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Toms River	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Los Divisaderos	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Munising	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Marseille Obs. Palais-Lonchamp	France	Record high maximum temperature	37.4 C (99.3 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Clermont-Ferrand	France	Record high maximum temperature	40.7 C (105.3 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Zharkent	Kazakhstan	Record high maximum temperature	42.1 C (107.8 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Carapan	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Pervomajskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.8 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Cambridge Galt Moe	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	19.5 C (67.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kunming	China	Record daily precipitation	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bordeaux-Merignac	France	Record high minimum temperature	22.3 C (72.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Feldberg/Schwarzwald	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	27.4 C (81.3 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Troicko-Pecherskoe	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Talladega	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Lukachukai	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Ust-Ozernoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ljubljana Bezigrad	Slovenia	Record high maximum temperature	34.1 C (93.4 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Rutland	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Record high minimum temperature	25.1 C (77.2 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Basel-Mulhouse	France	Record high maximum temperature	38.8 C (101.8 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Trier	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	35.4 C (95.7 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Trier-Zewen	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	35.4 C (95.7 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bad-Calmbach Wildbad	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	36.5 C (97.7 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Tatarsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Whitefish Pt	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Checotah	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Ottawa Nrc	Canada	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Mont-de-Marsan	France	Record high minimum temperature	21.8 C (71.2 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Faywood	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Dufur	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Yining	China	Record high maximum temperature	38.7 C (101.7 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Freiburg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	19.9 C (67.8 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Las Fuentes	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Pte de Chassiron	France	Record high minimum temperature	21.2 C (70.2 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Freudenstadt	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	33.9 C (93.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

901 records

Records set or tied on 31 July 1983 by type: Highest daily maximum 346, Lowest daily maximum 35, Highest daily minimum 248, Lowest daily minimum 63, Heaviest daily rainfall 208, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 31 July 1983 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	346
Lowest daily maximum	35
Highest daily minimum	248
Lowest daily minimum	63
Heaviest daily rainfall	208
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 31 July 1983 by timescale: all-time 20, monthly 25, daily 856.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

750 broken records

Margins by which the 750 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 185.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

31 July 1983

Top 20 records on 31 July 1983 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
31 July 1983	Avon Park 2 W, US	monthly rain	187.2 mm (7.4 in)	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	74 years	81 of 100 (Exceptional)
31 July 1983	Ochoco Rs, US	monthly rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	68 years	77 of 100 (Major)
31 July 1983	Kailiili 436, US	monthly rain	294.1 mm (11.6 in)	144.7 mm (5.7 in)	52 years	70 of 100 (Major)
31 July 1983	Keanae 346, US	daily rain	162.6 mm (6.4 in)	100.1 mm (3.9 in)	66 years	67 of 100 (Major)
31 July 1983	Lupi Upper 442, US	monthly rain	330.2 mm (13.0 in)	185.2 mm (7.3 in)	37 years	67 of 100 (Major)
31 July 1983	Nanchital (Smn), MX	monthly rain	215.9 mm (8.5 in)	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	42 years	60 of 100 (Major)
31 July 1983	Wishek, US	daily rain	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	42 years	60 of 100 (Major)
31 July 1983	Unskij Majak, RU	daily rain	42.3 mm (1.7 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	40 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Kalacinsk, RU	daily rain	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	38 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Vjazemskaja, RU	daily rain	80.7 mm (3.2 in)	54.2 mm (2.1 in)	24 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Saratoga, US	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	26 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Rushville, US	monthly rain	98.8 mm (3.9 in)	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	76 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Vicosa, BR	daily rain	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	52 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Sao Luiz Do Quitunde, BR	daily rain	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	53.4 mm (2.1 in)	41 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Kolpasevo, RU	daily rain	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	35.4 mm (1.4 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Bradford, GB	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	70 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Mengzi, CN	daily rain	102.8 mm (4.0 in)	51.5 mm (2.0 in)	13 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Odesskoe, RU	daily rain	37.7 mm (1.5 in)	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	20 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Dalian, CN	daily rain	166.4 mm (6.6 in)	132.8 mm (5.2 in)	8 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1983	Mc Minnville, US	daily high min	20.0 C (68.0 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	78 years	45 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

1804 to 1983

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1804 to 1983. 1983 had 901 records.

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

Records on 07-31 in each year
Year	Records
1804	1
1815	1
1816	1
1828	1
1834	1
1839	1
1840	1
1841	2
1851	1
1858	2
1860	4
1863	1
1866	1
1873	2
1876	1
1879	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	1
1887	5
1889	2
1890	2
1891	1
1892	1
1893	3
1894	2
1896	2
1897	2
1898	5
1900	1
1901	3
1902	4
1903	16
1904	12
1905	10
1906	14
1907	17
1908	22
1909	15
1910	21
1911	29
1912	14
1913	31
1914	28
1915	71
1916	63
1917	126
1918	39
1919	27
1920	168
1921	112
1922	24
1923	236
1924	97
1925	349
1926	226
1927	161
1928	145
1929	134
1930	143
1931	441
1932	314
1933	504
1934	449
1935	418
1936	548
1937	297
1938	417
1939	357
1940	415
1941	323
1942	342
1943	342
1944	312
1945	499
1946	426
1947	341
1948	341
1949	406
1950	511
1951	364
1952	472
1953	414
1954	459
1955	813
1956	574
1957	268
1958	374
1959	424
1960	622
1961	504
1962	348
1963	294
1964	637
1965	858
1966	606
1967	326
1968	637
1969	440
1970	576
1971	1,850
1972	667
1973	583
1974	363
1975	1,386
1976	530
1977	543
1978	754
1979	501
1980	1,047
1981	672
1982	767
1983	901
1984	777
1985	1,065
1986	1,021
1987	934
1988	940
1989	1,753
1990	911
1991	647
1992	1,169
1993	1,031
1994	1,207
1995	1,223
1996	1,084
1997	984
1998	1,195
1999	1,643
2000	1,001
2001	1,414
2002	1,080
2003	1,157
2004	779
2005	742
2006	1,405
2007	1,023
2008	911
2009	1,156
2010	1,485
2011	1,040
2012	712
2013	469
2014	1,000
2015	948
2016	501
2017	485
2018	1,135
2019	551
2020	1,034
2021	1,020
2022	861
2023	671
2024	748
2025	836
2026	754

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Data for records on 1983-07-31: 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 25	722
25 to 50	18
50 to 75	5
75 to 100	1
100 to 125	1
125 to 150	2
150 to 175	0
175 to 200	1