Weather Records on 16 December 1929

383 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 December 1929. Highest significance: Warburton, AU.

Key Facts for 16 December 1929

On 16 December 1929, 383 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
260 were record highs and 10 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 376 daily.
Warburton set a daily record precipitation of 72.4 mm (2.9 in) on 16 December 1929.
Across 160 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 483 records.

Record Map

383 stations

383 station records on 16 December 1929 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 December 1929: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Warburton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Moe Gippsland Water	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Williston Sloulin Fld	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Great Falls 16St	United States	Record daily snowfall	21.6 cm (8.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Walhalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Glendive	United States	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Dordrecht - Tnk 14	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gembrook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Warragul	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Rio Vista	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Record low maximum temperature	-13.0 C (8.6 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Colesberg (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Aliwal North	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Dunmurray	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Woods Point	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Helena Wb City	United States	Record daily snowfall	13.5 cm (5.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Kendrew Estates	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Cairns Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	40.6 C (105.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Gyzylarbat	Turkmenistan	Record low minimum temperature	-17.9 C (-0.2 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Grants Pass	United States	Record high minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Beenak	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Clemson UNIV	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Tooele	United States	Record high minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Sacramento 5 ESE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Stillwater 2 W	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Corinne	United States	Record high maximum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Great Falls 16St	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Williston Sloulin Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Glendive	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Oktjabrskij-Gorodok	Russia	Record daily precipitation	12.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kalispell Glacier AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yan Yean	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hohenpeissenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	16.1 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Blackwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Oudtshoorn	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Brakfontein	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	4.3 mm (0.17 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Engcobo (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Glasgow #2	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fischers Store	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Toorourrong Reservoir (Toorour	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wallan (Walnarring)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Urjupinsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	10.5 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dandenong Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Skipton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gadsden	United States	Record high maximum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Folsom	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Eubank	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tuckerton 2 NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Havre Wb City	United States	Record daily precipitation	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Weissenburg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	9.8 C (49.6 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Milan	Italy	Record high maximum temperature	13.6 C (56.5 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Bisbee	United States	Record high maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Hollister 1 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Bozeman Montana State UNIV	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Larimore 4SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Meeker 5 W	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Lebanon 3 W	United States	Record high maximum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Franklin Sewage Plt	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Union City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Murrumbeena Leeds Grove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

383 records

Records set or tied on 16 December 1929 by type: Highest daily maximum 123, Lowest daily maximum 4, Highest daily minimum 137, Lowest daily minimum 6, Heaviest daily rainfall 104, Heaviest daily snowfall 9.

Records on 16 December 1929 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	123
Lowest daily maximum	4
Highest daily minimum	137
Lowest daily minimum	6
Heaviest daily rainfall	104
Heaviest daily snowfall	9
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 16 December 1929 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 7, daily 376.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

318 broken records

Margins by which the 318 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 127.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 December 1929

Top 20 records on 16 December 1929 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 December 1929	Warburton, AU	daily rain	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	33 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Moe Gippsland Water, AU	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	18 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Williston Sloulin Fld, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	7.4 cm (2.9 in)	29 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Great Falls 16St, US	monthly snowfall	21.6 cm (8.5 in)	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	36 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Walhalla, AU	daily rain	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	34 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Glendive, US	daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	28 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Dordrecht - Tnk 14, ZA	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	35 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Gembrook, AU	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	19 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
16 December 1929	Warragul, AU	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	35 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Rio Vista, US	daily rain	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	22 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Tashkent, UZ	daily low max	-13.0 C (8.6 F)	12.8 C (23.0 F)	35 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Colesberg (Tnk), ZA	daily rain	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Aliwal North, ZA	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	39 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Dunmurray, ZA	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Woods Point, AU	daily rain	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	22 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Helena Wb City, US	daily snowfall	13.5 cm (5.3 in)	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	33 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Kendrew Estates, ZA	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Cairns Post Office, AU	monthly high max	40.6 C (105.1 F)	1.4 C (2.5 F)	13 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Gyzylarbat, TM	daily low min	-17.9 C (-0.2 F)	6.6 C (11.9 F)	26 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
16 December 1929	Grants Pass, US	daily high min	8.3 C (46.9 F)	4.4 C (7.9 F)	32 years	24 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 1929

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1929. 1929 had 383 records.

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

Records on 12-16 in each year
Year	Records
1793	2
1798	2
1808	1
1810	1
1814	2
1815	2
1835	1
1839	1
1840	1
1846	3
1852	1
1853	1
1859	3
1864	1
1869	1
1870	1
1872	1
1876	1
1877	1
1878	2
1879	1
1885	2
1886	2
1888	2
1889	1
1890	4
1891	2
1892	3
1893	1
1894	1
1895	1
1896	7
1897	4
1898	1
1899	2
1900	2
1901	4
1902	17
1903	6
1904	8
1905	4
1906	5
1907	30
1908	11
1909	5
1910	38
1911	26
1912	31
1913	12
1914	26
1915	55
1916	31
1917	60
1918	33
1919	52
1920	61
1921	35
1922	62
1923	205
1924	347
1925	93
1926	130
1927	218
1928	338
1929	383
1930	398
1931	168
1932	880
1933	716
1934	163
1935	71
1936	429
1937	351
1938	142
1939	1,014
1940	633
1941	348
1942	550
1943	491
1944	189
1945	478
1946	357
1947	506
1948	775
1949	132
1950	272
1951	987
1952	349
1953	265
1954	305
1955	325
1956	650
1957	478
1958	497
1959	605
1960	393
1961	858
1962	859
1963	484
1964	639
1965	576
1966	417
1967	886
1968	557
1969	205
1970	726
1971	1,540
1972	1,020
1973	823
1974	546
1975	493
1976	526
1977	950
1978	532
1979	528
1980	1,322
1981	1,498
1982	1,208
1983	1,156
1984	1,944
1985	983
1986	485
1987	1,377
1988	605
1989	3,181
1990	753
1991	659
1992	1,408
1993	676
1994	698
1995	714
1996	797
1997	1,260
1998	698
1999	821
2000	1,160
2001	1,197
2002	990
2003	679
2004	510
2005	1,073
2006	1,020
2007	1,301
2008	2,049
2009	1,032
2010	1,585
2011	777
2012	912
2013	762
2014	465
2015	925
2016	1,588
2017	349
2018	624
2019	786
2020	415
2021	1,485
2022	836
2023	841
2024	755
2025	1,820

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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 20	302
20 to 40	12
40 to 60	0
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1