Weather Records on 12 December 1945

212 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 December 1945. Highest significance: Lungleh, IN.

Key Facts for 12 December 1945

On 12 December 1945, 212 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
13 were record highs and 98 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 1 monthly and 211 daily.
Lungleh set a daily record precipitation of 91.4 mm (3.6 in) on 12 December 1945.
Across 153 earlier years (1796 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 470 records.

Record Map

212 stations

212 station records on 12 December 1945 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 December 1945: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Lungleh	India	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Champhai	India	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sherkawan	India	Record daily precipitation	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Aspen Grove Rch 1 W	United States	Record daily snowfall	40.6 cm (16.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Arnsberg	Germany	Record snow depth	16.0 cm (6.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Brownfield	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Lien I Selbu	Norway	Record snow depth	61.0 cm (24.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Saint Johns	United States	Record snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Demagiri	India	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kurgan	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-39.5 C (-39.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Jerome	United States	Record snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Whitefish Pt	United States	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
McPherson	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Bateman Rch	United States	Record daily snowfall	28.7 cm (11.3 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Chita	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-11.4 C (11.5 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-40.3 C (-40.5 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bateman Rch	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Kustanai	Kazakhstan	Record low maximum temperature	-27.0 C (-16.6 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Angleton 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-30.4 C (-22.7 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Timovskoe	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-37.9 C (-36.2 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Devon (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Colchester 2 W	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-4.4 C (24.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ottawa	United States	Record daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Montevideo 1SW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-28.9 C (-20.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Flatwillow 4 ENE	United States	Record daily snowfall	16.5 cm (6.5 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Crownpoint	United States	Record daily snowfall	13.7 cm (5.4 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ventspils	Latvia	Record daily precipitation	15.1 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mundrabilla Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Whitefish Pt	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lovell	United States	Record daily precipitation	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tres Piedras	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aijal	India	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Payson Rs	United States	Record snow depth	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Saint Johns	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Alton 1 W	United States	Record daily snowfall	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cumbres	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ironwood	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-28.9 C (-20.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ithaca Cornell UNIV	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-7.8 C (18.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Katherine Council	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Snowflake	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Britt 3E	United States	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
El Dorado	United States	Record daily snowfall	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Malta	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Aspen Grove Rch 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Williston Sloulin Fld	United States	Record snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Sairang	India	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Cedar Glade	United States	Record snow depth	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
McPherson	United States	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Elizabethtown	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Tres Piedras	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Hot Springs 2	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-11.1 C (12.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Spooner Ag Rsch STN	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-28.3 C (-18.9 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Niulii 179	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Kindersley	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-10.0 C (14.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Alton 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Emporia 1 S	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.6 cm (2.2 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Elmira	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-6.1 C (21.0 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Bookara	Australia	Record daily precipitation	5.3 mm (0.21 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Wagga Wagga (Kooringal)	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	16 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

212 records

Records set or tied on 12 December 1945 by type: Highest daily maximum 4, Lowest daily maximum 52, Highest daily minimum 9, Lowest daily minimum 46, Heaviest daily rainfall 51, Heaviest daily snowfall 39, Deepest snow cover 11.

Records on 12 December 1945 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	4
Lowest daily maximum	52
Highest daily minimum	9
Lowest daily minimum	46
Heaviest daily rainfall	51
Heaviest daily snowfall	39
Deepest snow cover	11

Records on 12 December 1945 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 1, daily 211.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

155 broken records

Margins by which the 155 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 254.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 December 1945

Top 20 records on 12 December 1945 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 December 1945	Lungleh, IN	daily rain	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	23 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1945	Champhai, IN	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	38 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1945	Sherkawan, IN	daily rain	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	23 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1945	Aspen Grove Rch 1 W, US	daily snowfall	40.6 cm (16.0 in)	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	19 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1945	Arnsberg, DE	daily snow depth	16.0 cm (6.3 in)	9.0 cm (3.5 in)	39 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
12 December 1945	Brownfield, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	31 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Lien I Selbu, NO	daily snow depth	61.0 cm (24.0 in)	20.0 cm (7.9 in)	44 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Saint Johns, US	daily snow depth	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	42 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Demagiri, IN	daily rain	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	44 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Kurgan, RU	daily low min	-39.5 C (-39.1 F)	7.0 C (12.6 F)	50 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Jerome, US	daily snow depth	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	47 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Whitefish Pt, US	daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	28 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	McPherson, US	daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	3.9 cm (1.5 in)	47 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Bateman Rch, US	daily snowfall	28.7 cm (11.3 in)	10.9 cm (4.3 in)	27 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Chita, RU	daily high min	-11.4 C (11.5 F)	3.1 C (5.6 F)	49 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure, RU	daily low min	-40.3 C (-40.5 F)	5.8 C (10.4 F)	34 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Bateman Rch, US	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	19 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Kustanai, KZ	daily low max	-27.0 C (-16.6 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	42 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Angleton 2 W, US	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	31 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
12 December 1945	Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij, RU	daily low min	-30.4 C (-22.7 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	52 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

1796 to 1945

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1796 to 1945. 1945 had 212 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 50	138
50 to 100	10
100 to 150	4
150 to 200	1
200 to 250	1
250 to 300	1