Weather Records on 12 December 1940

621 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 December 1940. Highest significance: Bagewadi, IN.

Key Facts for 12 December 1940

On 12 December 1940, 621 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
66 were record highs and 40 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 11 monthly and 609 daily.
Bagewadi set an all-time record daily precipitation of 226.1 mm (8.9 in) on 12 December 1940.
Across 153 earlier years (1796 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 468 records.

Record Map

621 stations

621 station records on 12 December 1940 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 December 1940: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bagewadi	India	Record daily precipitation	226.1 mm (8.9 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Krishnarajpet	India	Record daily precipitation	84.6 mm (3.3 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Manjhanpur	India	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Moradabad	India	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Bilgi	India	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Gadarwara	India	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Pollachi	India	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record snow depth	25.0 cm (9.8 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hempstead	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Chickmagalur	India	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Mandya	India	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Shikarpur	India	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Avanashi	India	Record daily precipitation	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sringeri	India	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Placid 2 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Grand Junction Walker Fld	United States	Record daily snowfall	14.5 cm (5.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kandukur	India	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bagalkot	India	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Two Buttes	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bowling Green Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Carbondale Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Salamonia	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Peermade Residen	India	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Gobichettipalaya	India	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Anderson 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Phillipsburg 1 SSE	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.6 cm (2.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Findlay Wpcc	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Pelee Island	Canada	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Perinthalamanna	India	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Usilampatti	India	Record daily precipitation	68.3 mm (2.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Palestine	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Berne Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Franklin	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kenton	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Nandyal	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Las Vegas 2 NW	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Santaravur	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Davangire	India	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Collins	United States	Record daily snowfall	14.7 cm (5.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Flora 5 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Escalante	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Lincoln UNIV Pwr Plt	United States	Record daily snowfall	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Channapatana	India	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Gothenburg	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Magadi	India	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nagamangala	India	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Wray	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Greencastle 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Willowghby East Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nannilam	India	Record daily precipitation	100.3 mm (3.9 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Cheyenne Wells 2NE	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Farmland 5 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Gyzylarbat	Turkmenistan	Record high minimum temperature	13.1 C (55.6 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
1 N McLeansboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Farmersburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Shelbyville Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Pearlington	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Abbott 1 SE	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Cimarron 4 SW	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Reit Im Winkl	Germany	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

621 records

Records set or tied on 12 December 1940 by type: Highest daily maximum 26, Lowest daily maximum 20, Highest daily minimum 40, Lowest daily minimum 20, Heaviest daily rainfall 438, Heaviest daily snowfall 71, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 12 December 1940 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	26
Lowest daily maximum	20
Highest daily minimum	40
Lowest daily minimum	20
Heaviest daily rainfall	438
Heaviest daily snowfall	71
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 12 December 1940 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 11, daily 609.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

558 broken records

Margins by which the 558 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 160.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 December 1940

Top 20 records on 12 December 1940 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 December 1940	Bagewadi, IN	all-time rain	226.1 mm (8.9 in)	90.0 mm (3.5 in)	26 years	71 of 100 (Major)
12 December 1940	Krishnarajpet, IN	monthly rain	84.6 mm (3.3 in)	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	31 years	63 of 100 (Major)
12 December 1940	Manjhanpur, IN	monthly rain	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	30 years	63 of 100 (Major)
12 December 1940	Moradabad, IN	monthly rain	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	47.3 mm (1.9 in)	10 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Bilgi, IN	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	37.9 mm (1.5 in)	26 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Gadarwara, IN	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	38 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Pollachi, IN	daily rain	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	61.9 mm (2.4 in)	23 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Heinersreuth-Vollhof, DE	daily snow depth	25.0 cm (9.8 in)	16.0 cm (6.3 in)	39 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Hempstead, US	daily rain	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	35 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Chickmagalur, IN	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	15 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Mandya, IN	monthly rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	24 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Shikarpur, IN	daily rain	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	79.3 mm (3.1 in)	26 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Avanashi, IN	daily rain	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	15 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Sringeri, IN	daily rain	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	47.7 mm (1.9 in)	9 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Lake Placid 2 S, US	monthly rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	24 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Grand Junction Walker Fld, US	daily snowfall	14.5 cm (5.7 in)	7.4 cm (2.9 in)	39 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Kandukur, IN	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	33 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Bagalkot, IN	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	3 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Two Buttes, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	40 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1940	Bowling Green Wwtp, US	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	45 years	36 of 100 (Notable)

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

1796 to 1940

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1796 to 1940. 1940 had 621 records.

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

Records on 12-12 in each year
Year	Records
1796	2
1798	1
1802	1
1808	2
1814	1
1825	2
1831	1
1835	2
1846	1
1855	2
1861	1
1863	3
1870	2
1871	5
1873	2
1879	2
1882	3
1887	1
1889	1
1891	2
1892	2
1893	8
1894	3
1895	1
1896	4
1897	3
1898	20
1899	11
1900	5
1901	4
1902	7
1903	18
1904	20
1905	10
1906	14
1907	8
1908	25
1909	20
1910	39
1911	104
1912	53
1913	20
1914	19
1915	46
1916	115
1917	246
1918	33
1919	23
1920	41
1921	63
1922	61
1923	91
1924	130
1925	75
1926	143
1927	335
1928	234
1929	405
1930	45
1931	522
1932	813
1933	358
1934	430
1935	266
1936	142
1937	468
1938	103
1939	418
1940	621
1941	260
1942	257
1943	165
1944	688
1945	212
1946	761
1947	295
1948	282
1949	789
1950	364
1951	175
1952	501
1953	288
1954	696
1955	381
1956	441
1957	1,118
1958	884
1959	464
1960	710
1961	1,481
1962	1,495
1963	439
1964	459
1965	1,045
1966	369
1967	565
1968	727
1969	499
1970	366
1971	585
1972	1,669
1973	397
1974	191
1975	492
1976	319
1977	907
1978	382
1979	1,016
1980	583
1981	734
1982	867
1983	816
1984	808
1985	1,384
1986	408
1987	468
1988	1,030
1989	930
1990	676
1991	1,980
1992	818
1993	887
1994	1,172
1995	2,030
1996	1,391
1997	869
1998	1,103
1999	952
2000	2,510
2001	700
2002	683
2003	537
2004	727
2005	769
2006	886
2007	1,315
2008	1,424
2009	818
2010	1,501
2011	621
2012	684
2013	646
2014	1,040
2015	1,496
2016	530
2017	808
2018	256
2019	418
2020	507
2021	441
2022	767
2023	544
2024	328
2025	1,485

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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	464
20 to 40	55
40 to 60	21
60 to 80	10
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	3
120 to 140	1
140 to 160	1