Weather Records on 19 December 1922

155 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 19 December 1922. Highest significance: Two Wells, AU.

Key Facts for 19 December 1922

On 19 December 1922, 155 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
8 were record highs and 20 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 152 daily.
Two Wells set a daily record precipitation of 33.0 mm (1.3 in) on 19 December 1922.
Across 152 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 505 records.

Record Map

155 stations

155 station records on 19 December 1922 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 19 December 1922: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Two Wells	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Gumeracha	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Birdwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Taroom Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Torrens	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Adelaide (Salisbury Bowling Cl	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Dingo Vale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Williamstown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Gumbardo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Perry the Pines	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Lobethal	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Adelaide (Tea Tree Gully Counc	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Winterhoek	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Darwin Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Ardrossan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Gawler Council Depot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Grenfell	Canada	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Brandon Cda	Canada	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Alice Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Hogsback (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Gawler (Loos)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Maitland (Woodburlie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Roseworthy Agric College	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kola-In-Murman	Russia	Record daily precipitation	9.5 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Blinman	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Maitland	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mannum Council Depot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Curramulka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Victoria	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Whittata	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Adelaide West Terrace	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mallala	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Woomera (South Gap Station)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Beltana	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hawker	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wittstock-Rote Muhle	Germany	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Adelaide (Thorndon Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hawker (Warcowie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Magill Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lyndoch	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Altentreptow	Germany	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Broughton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Adelaide (Pooraka)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Barker	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Grenfell	Canada	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Brandon Cda	Canada	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Idracowra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yunta	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
North Adelaide	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cooke Plains	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Alice Springs Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Manna Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Callington	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sturt	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Blinman (Wirrealpa)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Ardrossan (Winulta)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Glenelg Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Barkerville	Canada	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Barkerville	Canada	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
St Albans	Canada	Record daily precipitation	6.1 mm (0.24 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

155 records

Records set or tied on 19 December 1922 by type: Highest daily maximum 3, Lowest daily maximum 12, Highest daily minimum 5, Lowest daily minimum 8, Heaviest daily rainfall 118, Heaviest daily snowfall 8, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 19 December 1922 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	3
Lowest daily maximum	12
Highest daily minimum	5
Lowest daily minimum	8
Heaviest daily rainfall	118
Heaviest daily snowfall	8
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 19 December 1922 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 3, daily 152.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

142 broken records

Margins by which the 142 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 76.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

19 December 1922

Top 20 records on 19 December 1922 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
19 December 1922	Two Wells, AU	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	33 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Gumeracha, AU	daily rain	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	20 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Birdwood, AU	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	47.7 mm (1.9 in)	20 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Taroom Post Office, AU	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Mount Torrens, AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	16 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Adelaide (Salisbury Bowling Cl, AU	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	20 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Dingo Vale, AU	daily rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	20 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Williamstown, AU	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	20 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Gumbardo, AU	daily rain	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	8 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Mt Perry the Pines, AU	daily rain	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	15 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Lobethal, AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	4 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1922	Adelaide (Tea Tree Gully Counc, AU	daily rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Winterhoek, ZA	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	19.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Darwin Post Office, AU	daily rain	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	25 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Ardrossan, AU	monthly rain	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	38 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Gawler Council Depot, AU	monthly rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	1 year	22 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Grenfell, CA	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	16 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Brandon Cda, CA	daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	31 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Alice Post Office, AU	daily rain	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	8 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1922	Hogsback (Bos), ZA	daily rain	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	13.9 mm (0.5 in)	32 years	21 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

1793 to 1922

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1922. 1922 had 155 records.

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

Records on 12-19 in each year
Year	Records
1793	2
1795	1
1805	1
1835	1
1846	2
1849	1
1852	3
1855	3
1859	3
1860	1
1861	2
1869	2
1870	1
1875	2
1877	2
1880	1
1884	2
1885	1
1888	1
1889	3
1890	4
1892	4
1894	1
1895	4
1896	1
1898	3
1899	2
1900	1
1901	3
1902	16
1903	2
1904	19
1905	5
1906	9
1907	12
1908	12
1909	18
1910	22
1911	17
1912	41
1913	50
1914	23
1915	31
1916	38
1917	36
1918	24
1919	53
1920	30
1921	60
1922	155
1923	180
1924	492
1925	79
1926	152
1927	222
1928	45
1929	386
1930	76
1931	650
1932	239
1933	459
1934	455
1935	110
1936	689
1937	211
1938	237
1939	390
1940	392
1941	588
1942	654
1943	364
1944	241
1945	700
1946	182
1947	283
1948	397
1949	632
1950	545
1951	622
1952	469
1953	517
1954	443
1955	906
1956	287
1957	984
1958	386
1959	249
1960	432
1961	595
1962	670
1963	966
1964	753
1965	392
1966	851
1967	1,063
1968	900
1969	381
1970	485
1971	288
1972	325
1973	1,014
1974	252
1975	843
1976	398
1977	569
1978	1,191
1979	829
1980	456
1981	1,515
1982	768
1983	2,804
1984	1,066
1985	1,179
1986	609
1987	1,095
1988	1,001
1989	1,740
1990	1,463
1991	1,236
1992	1,176
1993	1,153
1994	692
1995	1,459
1996	2,108
1997	830
1998	855
1999	609
2000	1,154
2001	627
2002	1,467
2003	996
2004	664
2005	697
2006	1,061
2007	689
2008	1,545
2009	1,937
2010	1,610
2011	832
2012	774
2013	636
2014	537
2015	1,109
2016	1,080
2017	783
2018	397
2019	541
2020	327
2021	603
2022	494
2023	1,224
2024	864
2025	1,542

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Data for records on 1922-12-19: 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 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 10	98
10 to 20	23
20 to 30	9
30 to 40	4
40 to 50	3
50 to 60	4
60 to 70	0
70 to 80	1