Weather Records on 1 December 1909

64 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 1 December 1909. Highest significance: Narre Warren North (Narre Warr, AU.

Key Facts for 1 December 1909

On 1 December 1909, 64 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
7 were record highs and 3 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 1 monthly and 63 daily.
Narre Warren North (Narre Warr set a daily record precipitation of 46.0 mm (1.8 in) on 1 December 1909.
Across 162 earlier years (1797 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 486 records.

Record Map

64 stations

64 station records on 1 December 1909 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 1 December 1909: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Narre Warren North (Narre Warr	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Yan Yean	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ferntree Gully	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sunbury (Salesian College )	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Winnemucca AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ringwood 2	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Rosedale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Beenak	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Scotsburn (Mount Boninyong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Warburton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Ballan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Dandenong (Comberoond)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Springbok	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stratford	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nora_D	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	18.9 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bairnsdale 1	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bamberg (Sternwarte)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rokewood (the Meadows)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Urana Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Omeo Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Warragul (Carbethon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Daylesford	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Maldon (Derby Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Peddie (Mag)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Blackwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Tartu	Estonia	Record daily precipitation	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Colesberg (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Cape Borda Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Deniliquin (Wilkinson St)	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Alexandra (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Goulburn River @ Shepparton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Gavle	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	8.3 mm (0.33 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Hoofddorp	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	13.3 mm (0.5 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Kerkwerve	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	12.0 mm (0.5 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Bredasdorp	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Bute	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Milwaukee Wb City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Escanaba	United States	Record high maximum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Berrybank	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Madison Wb City	United States	Record high maximum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Frankfurt/Main (Feldbergstr.)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Augsburg (Sankt Stephan)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Scheveningen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Paarl (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Escanaba	United States	Record high minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Benerembah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.1 mm (0.24 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Stellenbosch (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Robertson	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Tarkastad (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Kristianstad	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Port Arthur	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Regensburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	6.3 mm (0.25 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Helmond	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Mulwala Homestead	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	6 of 100 (Routine)
Somerset East	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	5 of 100 (Routine)
Madison Wb City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	1.1 C (34.0 F)	3 of 100 (Routine)
Walgett Council Depot	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	2 of 100 (Routine)
Kyneton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	2 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

64 records

Records set or tied on 1 December 1909 by type: Highest daily maximum 3, Lowest daily maximum 3, Highest daily minimum 4, Heaviest daily rainfall 53, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 1 December 1909 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	3
Lowest daily maximum	3
Highest daily minimum	4
Lowest daily minimum	0
Heaviest daily rainfall	53
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 1 December 1909 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 1, daily 63.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

57 broken records

Margins by which the 57 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 39.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

1 December 1909

Top 20 records on 1 December 1909 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
1 December 1909	Narre Warren North (Narre Warr, AU	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	29 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
1 December 1909	Yan Yean, AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	24 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
1 December 1909	Ferntree Gully, AU	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	6 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Sunbury (Salesian College ), AU	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	24 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Winnemucca AP, US	monthly rain	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	4.3 mm (0.17 in)	24 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Ringwood 2, AU	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	6 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Rosedale, AU	daily rain	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	13 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Beenak, AU	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	14 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Scotsburn (Mount Boninyong), AU	daily rain	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	12 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Warburton, AU	daily rain	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	14 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Ballan, AU	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	33 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Dandenong (Comberoond), AU	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	21 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Springbok, ZA	daily rain	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	30 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Stratford, AU	daily rain	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	14 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Nora_D, SE	daily rain	18.9 mm (0.7 in)	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	28 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Bairnsdale 1, AU	daily rain	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	29 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Bamberg (Sternwarte), DE	daily rain	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	16 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Rokewood (the Meadows), AU	daily rain	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	13.3 mm (0.5 in)	13 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Heinersreuth-Vollhof, DE	daily rain	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	5.4 mm (0.21 in)	13 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
1 December 1909	Urana Post Office, AU	daily rain	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	37 years	20 of 100 (Routine)

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

1797 to 1909

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1909. 1909 had 64 records.

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

Records on 12-01 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1805	1
1807	2
1810	1
1817	2
1821	1
1823	2
1831	1
1849	1
1856	3
1857	1
1858	1
1861	1
1863	1
1869	2
1871	1
1872	3
1873	6
1875	8
1876	4
1877	1
1879	7
1884	3
1885	3
1886	1
1887	2
1888	3
1889	2
1890	6
1891	1
1892	2
1893	1
1894	1
1895	4
1896	4
1897	10
1898	5
1899	4
1901	5
1902	7
1903	13
1904	4
1905	11
1906	3
1907	8
1908	40
1909	64
1910	39
1911	45
1912	37
1913	53
1914	142
1915	23
1916	29
1917	52
1918	32
1919	78
1920	192
1921	55
1922	85
1923	70
1924	135
1925	145
1926	115
1927	271
1928	85
1929	515
1930	128
1931	337
1932	383
1933	656
1934	667
1935	164
1936	433
1937	238
1938	159
1939	346
1940	300
1941	391
1942	424
1943	93
1944	478
1945	259
1946	224
1947	392
1948	252
1949	313
1950	437
1951	585
1952	762
1953	283
1954	308
1955	624
1956	338
1957	295
1958	531
1959	355
1960	258
1961	373
1962	1,073
1963	282
1964	1,181
1965	598
1966	995
1967	601
1968	883
1969	673
1970	1,299
1971	574
1972	843
1973	888
1974	1,339
1975	1,007
1976	1,294
1977	1,166
1978	777
1979	874
1980	1,019
1981	1,320
1982	1,759
1983	1,275
1984	513
1985	3,874
1986	803
1987	1,020
1988	538
1989	822
1990	514
1991	2,124
1992	552
1993	597
1994	717
1995	1,386
1996	1,448
1997	736
1998	1,698
1999	790
2000	777
2001	1,211
2002	637
2003	627
2004	1,033
2005	815
2006	2,866
2007	1,427
2008	879
2009	927
2010	1,991
2011	947
2012	1,027
2013	400
2014	677
2015	850
2016	384
2017	496
2018	807
2019	803
2020	567
2021	2,030
2022	584
2023	609
2024	636
2025	679

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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 5	25
5 to 10	13
10 to 15	7
15 to 20	5
20 to 25	3
25 to 30	2
30 to 35	1
35 to 40	1