Weather Records on 24 December 1971

543 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 24 December 1971. Highest significance: Bloomsbury Post Office, AU.

Key Facts for 24 December 1971

On 24 December 1971, 543 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
192 were record highs and 56 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 19 monthly and 522 daily.
Bloomsbury Post Office set a daily record precipitation of 164.6 mm (6.5 in) on 24 December 1971.
Across 152 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 533 records.

Record Map

543 stations

543 station records on 24 December 1971 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 24 December 1971: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bloomsbury Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	164.6 mm (6.5 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Netherdale Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	158.8 mm (6.3 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Home Hill Fifteen A St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	181.4 mm (7.1 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Bowen Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	164.3 mm (6.5 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Inkerman Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	191.8 mm (7.6 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Kalamia Estate	Australia	Record daily precipitation	150.6 mm (5.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Home Hill Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	162.1 mm (6.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Dalrymple Heights	Australia	Record daily precipitation	252.0 mm (9.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Fermoy	Australia	Record daily precipitation	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Big Pines Park Fc83B	United States	Record daily precipitation	150.9 mm (5.9 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Farleigh Co-Op Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	159.0 mm (6.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Woodstock Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	132.3 mm (5.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Tierra Blanca (Smn)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Proserpine Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	196.9 mm (7.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Clare	Australia	Record daily precipitation	155.4 mm (6.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Spencer 2	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Pioche	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Valley of Lagoons	Australia	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Koumala Hatfields Road	Australia	Record daily precipitation	147.3 mm (5.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Kuttabul Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	231.1 mm (9.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Mirani Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	167.6 mm (6.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Whitewood Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Uppsala_Aut	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Lethebrook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	135.9 mm (5.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Los Angeles Downtown/Usc	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ivanhoe (Mt Manara)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Farleigh Railway Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	165.6 mm (6.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Pleystowe Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	183.4 mm (7.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Reid River Railway Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	134.6 mm (5.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Greenvale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	86.6 mm (3.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Finch Hatton Cook St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	199.6 mm (7.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Corryong (Parish Lane)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Agassiz Cda	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-16.1 C (3.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Fort Macleod	Canada	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Townsville Aero	Australia	Record daily precipitation	149.6 mm (5.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Wallendbeen (Corang)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Wantabadgery	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Palmdale	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Adaven	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Calen Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	117.6 mm (4.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Strathbogie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	93.5 mm (3.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ribeirao Corrente	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	103.8 mm (4.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Manistee 3SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Plane Creek Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	190.5 mm (7.5 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Junee Treatment Works	Australia	Record daily precipitation	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Buritizal	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	125.8 mm (5.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Banff	Canada	Record daily snowfall	18.5 cm (7.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Big Tujunga Dam Fc46	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.2 mm (3.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Eton Police Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	158.2 mm (6.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Rankins Springs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mzimba	Malawi	Record daily precipitation	84.1 mm (3.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Gavle	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	7.3 C (45.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sequim	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.8 cm (2.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bogie River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Squirrel Inn 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	166.1 mm (6.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Cloudcroft	United States	Record high minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Giru Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	131.3 mm (5.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Mingela Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sellheim	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Salzburg	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

543 records

Records set or tied on 24 December 1971 by type: Highest daily maximum 92, Lowest daily maximum 39, Highest daily minimum 100, Lowest daily minimum 17, Heaviest daily rainfall 250, Heaviest daily snowfall 38, Deepest snow cover 7.

Records on 24 December 1971 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	92
Lowest daily maximum	39
Highest daily minimum	100
Lowest daily minimum	17
Heaviest daily rainfall	250
Heaviest daily snowfall	38
Deepest snow cover	7

Records on 24 December 1971 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 19, daily 522.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

459 broken records

Margins by which the 459 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 160.8. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

24 December 1971

Top 20 records on 24 December 1971 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
24 December 1971	Bloomsbury Post Office, AU	daily rain	164.6 mm (6.5 in)	94.7 mm (3.7 in)	72 years	71 of 100 (Major)
24 December 1971	Netherdale Post Office, AU	daily rain	158.8 mm (6.3 in)	116.9 mm (4.6 in)	57 years	63 of 100 (Major)
24 December 1971	Home Hill Fifteen A St, AU	daily rain	181.4 mm (7.1 in)	126.8 mm (5.0 in)	57 years	62 of 100 (Major)
24 December 1971	Bowen Post Office, AU	daily rain	164.3 mm (6.5 in)	86.3 mm (3.4 in)	48 years	61 of 100 (Major)
24 December 1971	Inkerman Station, AU	daily rain	191.8 mm (7.6 in)	133.4 mm (5.3 in)	44 years	61 of 100 (Major)
24 December 1971	Kalamia Estate, AU	daily rain	150.6 mm (5.9 in)	86.1 mm (3.4 in)	48 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Home Hill Post Office, AU	daily rain	162.1 mm (6.4 in)	124.3 mm (4.9 in)	44 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Dalrymple Heights, AU	monthly rain	252.0 mm (9.9 in)	160.8 mm (6.3 in)	7 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Fermoy, AU	daily rain	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	28 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Big Pines Park Fc83B, US	daily rain	150.9 mm (5.9 in)	95.5 mm (3.8 in)	30 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Farleigh Co-Op Sugar Mill, AU	daily rain	159.0 mm (6.3 in)	112.0 mm (4.4 in)	21 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Woodstock Post Office, AU	daily rain	132.3 mm (5.2 in)	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	68 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Tierra Blanca (Smn), MX	daily rain	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	21 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Proserpine Post Office, AU	daily rain	196.9 mm (7.8 in)	122.2 mm (4.8 in)	9 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Clare, AU	daily rain	155.4 mm (6.1 in)	132.3 mm (5.2 in)	9 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Mount Spencer 2, AU	daily rain	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	80 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Pioche, US	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	81 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Valley of Lagoons, AU	daily rain	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	38 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Koumala Hatfields Road, AU	daily rain	147.3 mm (5.8 in)	69.8 mm (2.7 in)	44 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
24 December 1971	Kuttabul Post Office, AU	daily rain	231.1 mm (9.1 in)	129.5 mm (5.1 in)	4 years	46 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

1793 to 1971

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1971. 1971 had 543 records.

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

Records on 12-24 in each year
Year	Records
1793	2
1806	2
1825	2
1835	1
1836	1
1852	1
1857	1
1864	2
1870	4
1871	1
1872	1
1874	1
1876	1
1877	1
1878	4
1880	1
1881	1
1883	1
1884	2
1889	2
1892	1
1893	2
1894	3
1895	2
1896	3
1898	9
1899	1
1900	2
1901	9
1902	3
1903	5
1904	9
1905	7
1906	26
1907	12
1908	2
1909	68
1910	38
1911	13
1912	33
1913	29
1914	59
1915	51
1916	24
1917	25
1918	95
1919	200
1920	43
1921	142
1922	82
1923	118
1924	369
1925	100
1926	126
1927	81
1928	167
1929	237
1930	95
1931	1,045
1932	849
1933	478
1934	178
1935	225
1936	420
1937	202
1938	157
1939	178
1940	575
1941	589
1942	519
1943	637
1944	300
1945	546
1946	245
1947	370
1948	756
1949	220
1950	633
1951	525
1952	277
1953	512
1954	231
1955	1,334
1956	295
1957	469
1958	205
1959	339
1960	638
1961	415
1962	741
1963	1,191
1964	1,725
1965	766
1966	662
1967	663
1968	946
1969	865
1970	741
1971	543
1972	282
1973	641
1974	793
1975	695
1976	581
1977	952
1978	532
1979	1,100
1980	856
1981	770
1982	1,699
1983	5,032
1984	568
1985	685
1986	736
1987	1,329
1988	712
1989	2,589
1990	2,228
1991	663
1992	464
1993	577
1994	959
1995	1,285
1996	1,287
1997	1,152
1998	916
1999	1,134
2000	707
2001	744
2002	1,056
2003	779
2004	1,099
2005	1,158
2006	925
2007	533
2008	727
2009	1,663
2010	1,316
2011	504
2012	818
2013	866
2014	910
2015	2,438
2016	593
2017	510
2018	208
2019	565
2020	395
2021	1,012
2022	1,334
2023	1,347
2024	467
2025	2,206

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Data for records on 1971-12-24: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.

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	377
25 to 50	41
50 to 75	21
75 to 100	9
100 to 125	6
125 to 150	4
150 to 175	1