Weather Records on 14 December 1969

498 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 14 December 1969. Highest significance: Amalapuram, IN.

Key Facts for 14 December 1969

On 14 December 1969, 498 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
143 were record highs and 37 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 10 monthly and 487 daily.
Amalapuram set a daily record precipitation of 54.0 mm (2.1 in) on 14 December 1969.
Across 164 earlier years (1796 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 454 records.

Record Map

498 stations

498 station records on 14 December 1969 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 14 December 1969: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Amalapuram	India	Record daily precipitation	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Salem	India	Record daily precipitation	67.4 mm (2.7 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Musiri	India	Record daily precipitation	83.6 mm (3.3 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Manjeri	India	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Tirumayam	India	Record daily precipitation	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Cannanore	India	Record daily precipitation	140.4 mm (5.5 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Port Arthur	Australia	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Nubeena	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Powell Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	78.0 mm (3.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Izana	Spain	Record daily precipitation	94.6 mm (3.7 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Omalur	India	Record daily precipitation	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij	Russia	Record daily precipitation	68.3 mm (2.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Du Bois 7 E	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Alamur(Alamar)	India	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Watrap	India	Record daily precipitation	135.0 mm (5.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Perungalur	India	Record daily precipitation	150.0 mm (5.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ponnani	India	Record daily precipitation	80.3 mm (3.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Badagara	India	Record daily precipitation	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Melur	India	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Perumbalur	India	Record daily precipitation	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Kettering (Saddle Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Snug Primary School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Piracicaba (Cpef)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	126.4 mm (5.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sampaje	India	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Opossum Bay	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mummidivaram	India	Record daily precipitation	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Balecove	India	Record daily precipitation	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Ponnamaravathi	India	Record daily precipitation	59.0 mm (2.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Belthangady	India	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Hyndman	United States	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Lissadell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Killora (Grasmere)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Karike	India	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Pudukkottai	India	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bellerive (Fort Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Middleton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Tirukkattupalli	India	Record daily precipitation	61.4 mm (2.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Nelson	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Piracicaba	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	83.3 mm (3.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Harrington Harbour	Canada	Record daily snowfall	24.9 cm (9.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Natham	India	Record daily precipitation	110.0 mm (4.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Tiruppathur	India	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Iluppur	India	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Witwater (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	105.5 mm (4.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Harrington Harbour	Canada	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Lalgudi	India	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kulithalai	India	Record daily precipitation	102.0 mm (4.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Maple Plain	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Lenah Valley (Augusta Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mercara Obsy Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Dayton 1 WSW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Crowfels Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Campbell Town (Greenhill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Hobart (Waterworks Reserve)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Keda	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	56.0 mm (2.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Krishnarajnagar	India	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Kangayam	India	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Thamaraikulam	India	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Usilampatti	India	Record daily precipitation	64.2 mm (2.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Valapady	India	Record daily precipitation	90.0 mm (3.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

498 records

Records set or tied on 14 December 1969 by type: Highest daily maximum 106, Lowest daily maximum 19, Highest daily minimum 37, Lowest daily minimum 18, Heaviest daily rainfall 267, Heaviest daily snowfall 33, Deepest snow cover 18.

Records on 14 December 1969 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	106
Lowest daily maximum	19
Highest daily minimum	37
Lowest daily minimum	18
Heaviest daily rainfall	267
Heaviest daily snowfall	33
Deepest snow cover	18

Records on 14 December 1969 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 10, daily 487.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

412 broken records

Margins by which the 412 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 190.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

14 December 1969

Top 20 records on 14 December 1969 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
14 December 1969	Amalapuram, IN	daily rain	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	53.5 mm (2.1 in)	63 years	64 of 100 (Major)
14 December 1969	Salem, IN	daily rain	67.4 mm (2.7 in)	61.3 mm (2.4 in)	58 years	63 of 100 (Major)
14 December 1969	Musiri, IN	daily rain	83.6 mm (3.3 in)	70.9 mm (2.8 in)	51 years	61 of 100 (Major)
14 December 1969	Manjeri, IN	daily rain	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	67 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Tirumayam, IN	daily rain	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	56.2 mm (2.2 in)	64 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Cannanore, IN	monthly rain	140.4 mm (5.5 in)	68.5 mm (2.7 in)	4 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Port Arthur, AU	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	105 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Nubeena, AU	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	47 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Powell Creek, AU	daily rain	78.0 mm (3.1 in)	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	62 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Izana, ES	daily rain	94.6 mm (3.7 in)	79.1 mm (3.1 in)	24 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Omalur, IN	daily rain	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	28 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij, RU	daily rain	68.3 mm (2.7 in)	43.1 mm (1.7 in)	12 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Du Bois 7 E, US	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	19.0 cm (7.5 in)	24 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Alamur(Alamar), IN	daily rain	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	68 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Watrap, IN	monthly rain	135.0 mm (5.3 in)	34.7 mm (1.4 in)	54 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Perungalur, IN	daily rain	150.0 mm (5.9 in)	132.5 mm (5.2 in)	19 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Ponnani, IN	daily rain	80.3 mm (3.2 in)	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	15 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Badagara, IN	monthly rain	93.0 mm (3.7 in)	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	17 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Melur, IN	daily rain	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	36 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
14 December 1969	Perumbalur, IN	daily rain	108.0 mm (4.3 in)	58.2 mm (2.3 in)	38 years	45 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 1969

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1796 to 1969. 1969 had 498 records.

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

Records on 12-14 in each year
Year	Records
1796	1
1806	1
1808	4
1814	1
1825	2
1831	1
1835	1
1840	2
1846	2
1847	1
1848	1
1849	1
1852	1
1855	3
1863	1
1867	2
1868	1
1870	1
1871	1
1872	1
1878	4
1879	2
1880	3
1881	3
1882	1
1886	2
1887	1
1888	2
1889	2
1890	1
1891	4
1892	2
1893	4
1894	4
1895	1
1896	3
1897	7
1898	3
1899	11
1900	3
1901	20
1902	10
1903	11
1904	12
1905	2
1906	7
1907	22
1908	10
1909	14
1910	14
1911	13
1912	41
1913	9
1914	85
1915	99
1916	96
1917	55
1918	97
1919	29
1920	67
1921	52
1922	112
1923	255
1924	238
1925	319
1926	206
1927	384
1928	332
1929	410
1930	92
1931	418
1932	260
1933	571
1934	141
1935	158
1936	384
1937	325
1938	81
1939	182
1940	237
1941	433
1942	323
1943	331
1944	243
1945	415
1946	397
1947	490
1948	818
1949	139
1950	305
1951	724
1952	382
1953	370
1954	225
1955	388
1956	443
1957	244
1958	814
1959	294
1960	654
1961	823
1962	886
1963	663
1964	337
1965	610
1966	483
1967	959
1968	337
1969	498
1970	174
1971	864
1972	907
1973	628
1974	328
1975	2,092
1976	445
1977	1,023
1978	389
1979	709
1980	774
1981	1,031
1982	496
1983	1,197
1984	1,862
1985	1,400
1986	397
1987	1,317
1988	674
1989	2,058
1990	629
1991	1,098
1992	1,308
1993	954
1994	558
1995	1,331
1996	832
1997	1,401
1998	1,227
1999	793
2000	1,950
2001	1,391
2002	863
2003	978
2004	738
2005	845
2006	1,445
2007	636
2008	1,319
2009	848
2010	1,891
2011	867
2012	938
2013	565
2014	1,046
2015	2,200
2016	650
2017	563
2018	699
2019	588
2020	551
2021	763
2022	1,028
2023	619
2024	363
2025	1,772

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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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 25	345
25 to 50	41
50 to 75	16
75 to 100	3
100 to 125	2
125 to 150	3
150 to 175	0
175 to 200	2