Weather Records on 19 December 1974

252 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 19 December 1974. Highest significance: Simferopol, UA.

Key Facts for 19 December 1974

On 19 December 1974, 252 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
26 were record highs and 37 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 2 monthly and 250 daily.
Simferopol set a daily record precipitation of 27.4 mm (1.1 in) on 19 December 1974.
Across 152 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 504 records.

Record Map

252 stations

252 station records on 19 December 1974 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 19 December 1974: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Simferopol	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Ai-Petri	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Yalta	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Amsterdam (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Blaauwkop	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	71.0 mm (2.8 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lead	United States	Record daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Sevastopol',Mgs	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Queenstown	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Gordon 6N	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Usina Santa Maria	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	60.9 mm (2.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Usina Tres Saltos (Cpfl)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	104.9 mm (4.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Verhojansk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-55.2 C (-67.4 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Tasiilaq	Greenland [Denmark]	Record low minimum temperature	-23.8 C (-10.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Zugspitze	Germany	Record snow depth	430.0 cm (169.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Besonderheid"Byzonderhd."	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Acude Sobral	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Leliefontein	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Lordsburg 4 SE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-11.1 C (12.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Stensele	Sweden	Record snow depth	64.0 cm (25.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Lake St Clair (Hec)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Charqueada	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	51.2 mm (2.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Cumberland	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	56.0 mm (2.2 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Pentagna	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Palmiet, Kokstad	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Portage Wwtp	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Borinquen AP	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Palmer Estate	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Yale 1 NNW	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.9 cm (3.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Ponte Do Licinio	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Usina Avanhandava (Cpfl)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Titusville	United States	Record low maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Florence 8 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Watertown Wwtp	United States	Record daily snowfall	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Fazenda Do Barreiro Rico	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	59.6 mm (2.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Crowe's Place,Seven	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Manitowoc	United States	Record daily snowfall	11.9 cm (4.7 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Klepinino	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	21.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nizhni Sirohozy	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	13.8 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kherson	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	11.8 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Willah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Strelkovoe	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mala	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Arrabury Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.0 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lipeck	Russia	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chaplyne	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	14.1 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lead	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vosburg	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	9.0 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Henichesk	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yevpatoriia	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	14.4 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gordon 6N	United States	Record daily precipitation	4.8 mm (0.19 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Izium	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Zaporoz'e	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stereguscij	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Edgerton	United States	Record daily snowfall	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Williambury	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.0 mm (0.24 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Askaniia Nova	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	8.5 mm (0.33 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kyrylivka	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Melitopol	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Deadwood	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Karam	Russia	Record daily precipitation	4.6 mm (0.18 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

252 records

Records set or tied on 19 December 1974 by type: Highest daily maximum 9, Lowest daily maximum 20, Highest daily minimum 17, Lowest daily minimum 17, Heaviest daily rainfall 138, Heaviest daily snowfall 46, Deepest snow cover 5.

Records on 19 December 1974 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	9
Lowest daily maximum	20
Highest daily minimum	17
Lowest daily minimum	17
Heaviest daily rainfall	138
Heaviest daily snowfall	46
Deepest snow cover	5

Records on 19 December 1974 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 2, daily 250.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

210 broken records

Margins by which the 210 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 300.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

19 December 1974

Top 20 records on 19 December 1974 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
19 December 1974	Simferopol, UA	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	17.7 mm (0.7 in)	82 years	69 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1974	Ai-Petri, UA	daily rain	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	59.0 mm (2.3 in)	57 years	65 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1974	Yalta, UA	daily rain	50.7 mm (2.0 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	57 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1974	Amsterdam (Pol), ZA	daily rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	56 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1974	Blaauwkop, ZA	daily rain	71.0 mm (2.8 in)	32.9 mm (1.3 in)	44 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1974	Lead, US	daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	57 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1974	Sevastopol',Mgs, UA	daily rain	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	2.2 mm (0.09 in)	86 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1974	Queenstown, ZA	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	72 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1974	Gordon 6N, US	daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	63 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1974	Usina Santa Maria, BR	daily rain	60.9 mm (2.4 in)	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	35 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Usina Tres Saltos (Cpfl), BR	daily rain	104.9 mm (4.1 in)	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	13 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Verhojansk, RU	daily low max	-55.2 C (-67.4 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	71 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Tasiilaq, GL	daily low min	-23.8 C (-10.8 F)	2.6 C (4.7 F)	56 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Zugspitze, DE	daily snow depth	430.0 cm (169.3 in)	30.0 cm (11.8 in)	61 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Besonderheid"Byzonderhd.", ZA	daily rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	32 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Acude Sobral, BR	daily rain	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	15.9 mm (0.6 in)	40 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Leliefontein, ZA	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	31 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Lordsburg 4 SE, US	daily low min	-11.1 C (12.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	61 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Stensele, SE	daily snow depth	64.0 cm (25.2 in)	1.0 cm (0.4 in)	61 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
19 December 1974	Lake St Clair (Hec), AU	daily rain	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	12.8 mm (0.5 in)	25 years	25 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

1793 to 1974

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1974. 1974 had 252 records.

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

Records on 12-19 in each year
Year	Records
1793	2
1795	1
1805	1
1835	1
1846	2
1849	1
1852	3
1855	3
1859	3
1860	1
1861	2
1869	2
1870	1
1875	2
1877	2
1880	1
1884	2
1885	1
1888	1
1889	3
1890	4
1892	4
1894	1
1895	4
1896	1
1898	3
1899	2
1900	1
1901	3
1902	16
1903	2
1904	19
1905	5
1906	9
1907	12
1908	12
1909	18
1910	22
1911	17
1912	41
1913	50
1914	23
1915	31
1916	38
1917	36
1918	24
1919	53
1920	30
1921	60
1922	155
1923	180
1924	492
1925	79
1926	152
1927	222
1928	45
1929	386
1930	76
1931	650
1932	239
1933	459
1934	455
1935	110
1936	689
1937	211
1938	237
1939	390
1940	392
1941	588
1942	654
1943	364
1944	241
1945	700
1946	182
1947	283
1948	397
1949	632
1950	545
1951	622
1952	469
1953	517
1954	443
1955	906
1956	287
1957	984
1958	386
1959	249
1960	432
1961	595
1962	670
1963	966
1964	753
1965	392
1966	851
1967	1,063
1968	900
1969	381
1970	485
1971	288
1972	325
1973	1,014
1974	252
1975	843
1976	398
1977	569
1978	1,191
1979	829
1980	456
1981	1,515
1982	768
1983	2,804
1984	1,066
1985	1,179
1986	609
1987	1,095
1988	1,001
1989	1,740
1990	1,463
1991	1,236
1992	1,176
1993	1,153
1994	692
1995	1,459
1996	2,108
1997	830
1998	855
1999	609
2000	1,154
2001	627
2002	1,467
2003	996
2004	664
2005	697
2006	1,061
2007	689
2008	1,545
2009	1,937
2010	1,610
2011	832
2012	774
2013	636
2014	537
2015	1,109
2016	1,080
2017	783
2018	397
2019	541
2020	327
2021	603
2022	494
2023	1,224
2024	864
2025	1,542

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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 50	203
50 to 100	4
100 to 150	1
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	1
250 to 300	1