Weather Records on 12 February 1939

253 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 February 1939. Highest significance: Sandsprings, AU.

Key Facts for 12 February 1939

On 12 February 1939, 253 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
101 were record highs and 45 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 11 monthly and 241 daily.
Sandsprings set a daily record precipitation of 37.6 mm (1.5 in) on 12 February 1939.
Across 161 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 485 records.

Record Map

253 stations

253 station records on 12 February 1939 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 February 1939: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Sandsprings	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Katherine Council	Australia	Record daily precipitation	110.5 mm (4.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Jena Sternwarte	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.6 C (45.7 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Olympia Priest Pt Park	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Byro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Praha-Klementinum	Czech Republic	Record high minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Uppsala_Aut	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	3.1 C (37.6 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Pine Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Grassy Hill Radio Otc	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Walsh River Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Daly Waters	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.3 mm (2.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Dras	India	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record high minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Dunvegan	Canada	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Centralia	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Roodekop	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Amersfoort (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Moscow U of I	United States	Record snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Gorlitz	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.9 C (46.2 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.4 C (47.1 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Hvar	Croatia	Record high maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
La Ctr	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Baandee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Croydon Township	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Naboomspruit (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Carlton Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Arrino	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Cooktown Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	90.7 mm (3.6 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Revelstoke	Canada	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Karlsruhe	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.7 C (45.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Falls City 2 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Putbus	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	5.8 C (42.4 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Buckland Downs	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Grimes Pass 6 S	United States	Record daily snowfall	24.1 cm (9.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Noonkanbah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Huntsville	Canada	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Akhnoor	India	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	6.4 C (43.5 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Woodstock	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-13.9 C (7.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Lindenberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Osijek	Croatia	Record high minimum temperature	7.5 C (45.5 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Wallace	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Dunvegan	Canada	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Anacortes	United States	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wooramel	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Moscow U of I	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fortine 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pindathuna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nordby (Fano)	Denmark	Record daily precipitation	8.5 mm (0.33 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Huntsville	Canada	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jerome	United States	Record snow depth	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Burrundie Railway Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rapid City Forrest	Canada	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Rapid City Forrest	Canada	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bologna	Italy	Record high minimum temperature	7.9 C (46.2 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Selbu-Stubbe	Norway	Record daily precipitation	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Derby	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Skegness	United Kingdom	Record high minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lowestoft	United Kingdom	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sheffield	United Kingdom	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

253 records

Records set or tied on 12 February 1939 by type: Highest daily maximum 26, Lowest daily maximum 20, Highest daily minimum 75, Lowest daily minimum 25, Heaviest daily rainfall 90, Heaviest daily snowfall 10, Deepest snow cover 7.

Records on 12 February 1939 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	26
Lowest daily maximum	20
Highest daily minimum	75
Lowest daily minimum	25
Heaviest daily rainfall	90
Heaviest daily snowfall	10
Deepest snow cover	7

Records on 12 February 1939 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 11, daily 241.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

221 broken records

Margins by which the 221 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 203.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 February 1939

Top 20 records on 12 February 1939 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 February 1939	Sandsprings, AU	daily rain	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	37 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Katherine Council, AU	daily rain	110.5 mm (4.4 in)	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	13 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Jena Sternwarte, DE	daily high min	7.6 C (45.7 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	105 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Olympia Priest Pt Park, US	daily rain	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	24.3 mm (1.0 in)	55 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Byro, AU	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	16 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Praha-Klementinum, CZ	daily high min	7.2 C (45.0 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	140 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Uppsala_Aut, SE	daily high min	3.1 C (37.6 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	96 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Pine Creek, AU	daily rain	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	8 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Grassy Hill Radio Otc, AU	daily rain	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	42 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
12 February 1939	Walsh River Post Office, AU	daily rain	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	20 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Daly Waters, AU	daily rain	68.3 mm (2.7 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	52 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Dras, IN	daily rain	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	5 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Oxford, GB	daily high min	8.3 C (46.9 F)	0.7 C (1.3 F)	71 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Dunvegan, CA	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	24 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Centralia, US	daily rain	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	28 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Roodekop, ZA	daily rain	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	5 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Amersfoort (Pol), ZA	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	29 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Moscow U of I, US	daily snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	28 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Gorlitz, DE	monthly high min	7.9 C (46.2 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	35 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
12 February 1939	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	daily high min	8.4 C (47.1 F)	3.2 C (5.8 F)	44 years	26 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

1794 to 1939

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1939. 1939 had 253 records.

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

Records on 02-12 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1798	2
1803	1
1811	1
1816	2
1829	4
1845	1
1847	2
1855	1
1856	2
1864	3
1865	3
1866	1
1867	1
1869	3
1870	2
1871	5
1873	2
1875	1
1877	1
1879	1
1880	2
1881	2
1885	2
1887	1
1888	1
1890	1
1891	1
1893	3
1894	15
1895	5
1896	8
1897	1
1898	7
1899	15
1900	1
1901	5
1902	7
1903	7
1904	12
1905	22
1906	3
1907	15
1908	16
1909	9
1910	30
1911	16
1912	22
1913	12
1914	96
1915	16
1916	29
1917	25
1918	55
1919	37
1920	19
1921	32
1922	82
1923	103
1924	105
1925	248
1926	118
1927	71
1928	377
1929	283
1930	229
1931	275
1932	641
1933	195
1934	263
1935	162
1936	803
1937	729
1938	853
1939	253
1940	217
1941	275
1942	263
1943	404
1944	461
1945	310
1946	391
1947	710
1948	862
1949	618
1950	537
1951	505
1952	281
1953	232
1954	581
1955	1,099
1956	402
1957	375
1958	700
1959	492
1960	240
1961	683
1962	1,054
1963	752
1964	500
1965	946
1966	532
1967	555
1968	456
1969	554
1970	519
1971	579
1972	481
1973	841
1974	520
1975	878
1976	787
1977	857
1978	1,203
1979	1,719
1980	685
1981	1,655
1982	905
1983	1,444
1984	1,329
1985	1,428
1986	950
1987	660
1988	1,278
1989	511
1990	1,042
1991	636
1992	992
1993	728
1994	1,230
1995	1,272
1996	1,110
1997	940
1998	1,437
1999	1,772
2000	929
2001	859
2002	1,478
2003	613
2004	1,055
2005	966
2006	848
2007	709
2008	924
2009	1,088
2010	1,326
2011	959
2012	852
2013	527
2014	1,168
2015	709
2016	912
2017	1,494
2018	810
2019	1,053
2020	754
2021	1,634
2022	509
2023	469
2024	694
2025	1,802
2026	422

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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 50	213
50 to 100	5
100 to 150	1
150 to 200	1
200 to 250	1