Weather Records on 7 January 1939

220 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 7 January 1939. Highest significance: Orogrande, US.

Key Facts for 7 January 1939

On 7 January 1939, 220 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
117 were record highs and 16 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 2 monthly and 217 daily.
Orogrande set a daily record precipitation of 25.7 mm (1.0 in) on 7 January 1939.
Across 158 earlier years (1826 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 519 records.

Record Map

220 stations

220 station records on 7 January 1939 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 7 January 1939: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Orogrande	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Papaikou 144.1	United States	Record daily precipitation	175.3 mm (6.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record snow depth	24.0 cm (9.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Wagga Wagga (Kooringal)	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Deniliquin (Wilkinson St)	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	45.3 C (113.5 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Cairns Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	192.3 mm (7.6 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Husum	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-14.4 C (6.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Soltau	Germany	Record snow depth	22.0 cm (8.7 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Sonamarg &	India	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Dublin Phoenix Park	Ireland	Record high maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Zerbst	Germany	Record snow depth	24.0 cm (9.4 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-10.8 C (12.6 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Bayard 4W	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Chicoutimi	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Oksoey Fyr	Norway	Record low minimum temperature	-11.3 C (11.7 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Vanersborg	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-8.0 C (17.6 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Honohina 137	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Galway	Ireland	Record high maximum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Soyland I Gjesdal	Norway	Record snow depth	47.0 cm (18.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bisbee	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bisbee	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Ballinger 2 NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Paauhau 217	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.3 mm (3.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Lowestoft	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Sugahara Camp	United States	Record daily precipitation	115.1 mm (4.5 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Stanton	United States	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tularosa	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Miami	United States	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Roy	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
El Paso	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Agricultural College	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ancho	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kokpekty	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Copley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hedrum	Norway	Record daily precipitation	22.0 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dras	India	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Revelstoke	Canada	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Falsterbo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ashland #2	United States	Record high minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bluewater 3 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Paauilo 221	United States	Record daily precipitation	119.4 mm (4.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vernon Coldstream Ranch	Canada	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Revelstoke	Canada	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-14.6 C (5.7 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Sedan	United States	Record high maximum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Vernon Coldstream Ranch	Canada	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Sviland	Norway	Record snow depth	22.0 cm (8.7 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Storlien	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-20.2 C (-4.4 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Leavenworth	United States	Record high maximum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Bosque del Apache	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Bayard 4W	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Park Rch	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Rosewood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Cairns Post Office	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	28.4 C (83.1 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Gila Bend 2SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Haina 214	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.6 mm (3.4 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
New Westminster	Canada	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Greifswald	Germany	Record snow depth	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Lisboa Geofisica	Portugal	Record high maximum temperature	16.2 C (61.2 F)	16 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

220 records

Records set or tied on 7 January 1939 by type: Highest daily maximum 83, Lowest daily maximum 12, Highest daily minimum 34, Lowest daily minimum 4, Heaviest daily rainfall 61, Heaviest daily snowfall 13, Deepest snow cover 13.

Records on 7 January 1939 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	83
Lowest daily maximum	12
Highest daily minimum	34
Lowest daily minimum	4
Heaviest daily rainfall	61
Heaviest daily snowfall	13
Deepest snow cover	13

Records on 7 January 1939 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 2, daily 217.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

164 broken records

Margins by which the 164 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 132.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

7 January 1939

Top 20 records on 7 January 1939 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
7 January 1939	Orogrande, US	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	33 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
7 January 1939	Papaikou 144.1, US	daily rain	175.3 mm (6.9 in)	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	4 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 January 1939	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	daily snow depth	24.0 cm (9.4 in)	11.0 cm (4.3 in)	0 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Wagga Wagga (Kooringal), AU	daily high min	25.0 C (77.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	58 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Deniliquin (Wilkinson St), AU	daily high max	45.3 C (113.5 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	63 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Cairns Post Office, AU	daily rain	192.3 mm (7.6 in)	83.8 mm (3.3 in)	8 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Husum, DE	daily low min	-14.4 C (6.1 F)	3.5 C (6.3 F)	47 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Soltau, DE	all-time snow depth	22.0 cm (8.7 in)	1.0 cm (0.4 in)	0 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Sonamarg &, IN	daily rain	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	32 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Dublin Phoenix Park, IE	daily high max	13.9 C (57.0 F)	1.0 C (1.8 F)	48 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Zerbst, DE	daily snow depth	24.0 cm (9.4 in)	9.0 cm (3.5 in)	15 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Linkoeping-Malmslaett, SE	daily low max	-10.8 C (12.6 F)	1.8 C (3.2 F)	52 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Ft Bayard 4W, US	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	4.6 cm (1.8 in)	25 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Chicoutimi, CA	daily high min	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	53 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Oksoey Fyr, NO	monthly low min	-11.3 C (11.7 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	28 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Vanersborg, SE	daily low max	-8.0 C (17.6 F)	2.0 C (3.6 F)	47 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Honohina 137, US	daily rain	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	17 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Galway, IE	daily high max	12.2 C (54.0 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	48 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Soyland I Gjesdal, NO	daily snow depth	47.0 cm (18.5 in)	13.0 cm (5.1 in)	32 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
7 January 1939	Bisbee, US	daily rain	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	1 year	22 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

1826 to 1939

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1826 to 1939. 1939 had 220 records.

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

Records on 01-07 in each year
Year	Records
1826	1
1839	1
1846	1
1853	1
1855	1
1857	1
1858	1
1860	1
1861	1
1865	2
1867	1
1869	1
1870	2
1871	1
1874	3
1877	5
1879	1
1880	1
1882	2
1885	3
1886	3
1887	1
1888	2
1889	2
1890	5
1891	4
1893	1
1894	1
1896	4
1897	1
1898	5
1899	1
1900	5
1901	6
1902	5
1903	17
1904	3
1905	15
1906	19
1907	43
1908	19
1909	18
1910	14
1911	17
1912	56
1913	55
1914	11
1915	111
1916	53
1917	17
1918	57
1919	145
1920	60
1921	76
1922	180
1923	104
1924	206
1925	70
1926	91
1927	171
1928	212
1929	73
1930	449
1931	94
1932	216
1933	180
1934	645
1935	509
1936	529
1937	851
1938	192
1939	220
1940	697
1941	303
1942	702
1943	342
1944	283
1945	803
1946	834
1947	293
1948	740
1949	510
1950	377
1951	361
1952	386
1953	494
1954	409
1955	164
1956	283
1957	338
1958	416
1959	350
1960	440
1961	351
1962	855
1963	609
1964	218
1965	1,297
1966	614
1967	686
1968	1,305
1969	761
1970	1,139
1971	927
1972	395
1973	1,106
1974	892
1975	739
1976	1,127
1977	676
1978	485
1979	1,481
1980	700
1981	779
1982	1,416
1983	922
1984	657
1985	1,224
1986	717
1987	787
1988	2,940
1989	1,713
1990	688
1991	993
1992	993
1993	1,266
1994	1,226
1995	1,172
1996	1,945
1997	1,011
1998	2,599
1999	1,223
2000	696
2001	915
2002	1,296
2003	1,260
2004	928
2005	1,241
2006	1,164
2007	1,147
2008	1,806
2009	1,033
2010	1,899
2011	727
2012	537
2013	397
2014	2,632
2015	598
2016	704
2017	1,315
2018	1,026
2019	538
2020	446
2021	535
2022	895
2023	444
2024	690
2025	560
2026	725

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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	137
20 to 40	13
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	2
100 to 120	1
120 to 140	3