Weather Records on 19 December 1988

1,001 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 19 December 1988. Highest significance: Nanutarra, AU.

Key Facts for 19 December 1988

On 19 December 1988, 1,001 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
324 were record highs and 106 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 56 monthly and 943 daily.
Nanutarra set a monthly record daily precipitation of 72.1 mm (2.8 in) on 19 December 1988.
Across 152 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 499 records.

Record Map

1,001 stations

1,001 station records on 19 December 1988 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 19 December 1988: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Nanutarra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	82 of 100 (Exceptional)
Amamoor Forestry	Australia	Record daily precipitation	223.0 mm (8.8 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
Bryah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	88.0 mm (3.5 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Killara	Australia	Record daily precipitation	96.0 mm (3.8 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Ullawarra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	75.6 mm (3.0 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Munarra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	92.0 mm (3.6 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Crohamhurst	Australia	Record daily precipitation	238.6 mm (9.4 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Mount Padbury	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.2 mm (2.5 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.6 mm (1.2 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Springbrook Forestry	Australia	Record daily precipitation	186.0 mm (7.3 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Altgeringswalde	Germany	Record daily precipitation	36.7 mm (1.4 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Sandstone	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Coramba (Glenfiddich)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	113.8 mm (4.5 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Buttah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	100.4 mm (4.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Cogla Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Leinefelde	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.3 mm (1.7 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Meekatharra Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.2 mm (1.6 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Wiluna	Australia	Record daily precipitation	112.8 mm (4.4 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Tomewin (Border Gate)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	144.0 mm (5.7 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Zeitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.4 mm (1.3 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Yarlerweelor	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Goodna Ampol	Australia	Record daily precipitation	98.4 mm (3.9 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Booylgoo Spring	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Mee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	121.8 mm (4.8 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Tabulam Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.2 mm (3.2 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Kilkivan Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	148.0 mm (5.8 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Chillingham	Australia	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Dresden-Hosterwitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	28.3 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Rastenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Leipzig-Schkeuditz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	28.1 mm (1.1 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Moorarie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Nimbin Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	75.0 mm (3.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
The Channon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	88.0 mm (3.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Upper Orara (Aurania)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Augustus	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.4 mm (1.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Ida Valley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.7 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Ora Banda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Maleny Denning Rd	Australia	Record daily precipitation	158.0 mm (6.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Maclean (McLachlan Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Casino Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.2 mm (2.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Gera-Leumnitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bad Sooden-Allendorf	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Weimar-Schondorf	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Shamrock Mine	Australia	Record daily precipitation	162.4 mm (6.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Doon Doon (McCabes Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	134.2 mm (5.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Leonora	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Tamborine Fern St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	121.0 mm (4.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Woodburn Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	70.0 mm (2.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Wahlsburg-Lippoldsberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.6 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Woodlands	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.0 mm (2.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Maleny Tamarind St	Australia	Record daily precipitation	116.0 mm (4.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Arneiroz	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	52.2 mm (2.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Ethel Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Lawrence Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.6 mm (2.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Sandpan	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Milgun	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Yerilla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.4 mm (1.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Whian Whian (Rummery Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	144.5 mm (5.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Garsebach Bei Meissen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.5 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,001 records

Records set or tied on 19 December 1988 by type: Highest daily maximum 211, Lowest daily maximum 47, Highest daily minimum 113, Lowest daily minimum 59, Heaviest daily rainfall 524, Heaviest daily snowfall 31, Deepest snow cover 16.

Records on 19 December 1988 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	211
Lowest daily maximum	47
Highest daily minimum	113
Lowest daily minimum	59
Heaviest daily rainfall	524
Heaviest daily snowfall	31
Deepest snow cover	16

Records on 19 December 1988 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 56, daily 943.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

827 broken records

Margins by which the 827 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 305.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

19 December 1988

Top 20 records on 19 December 1988 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
19 December 1988	Nanutarra, AU	monthly rain	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	76 years	82 of 100 (Exceptional)
19 December 1988	Amamoor Forestry, AU	monthly rain	223.0 mm (8.8 in)	88.4 mm (3.5 in)	62 years	74 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Bryah, AU	monthly rain	88.0 mm (3.5 in)	46.3 mm (1.8 in)	56 years	73 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Killara, AU	monthly rain	96.0 mm (3.8 in)	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	56 years	72 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Ullawarra, AU	monthly rain	75.6 mm (3.0 in)	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	45 years	72 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Munarra, AU	monthly rain	92.0 mm (3.6 in)	59.5 mm (2.3 in)	56 years	72 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Crohamhurst, AU	daily rain	238.6 mm (9.4 in)	180.4 mm (7.1 in)	71 years	70 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Mount Padbury, AU	monthly rain	64.2 mm (2.5 in)	38.8 mm (1.5 in)	30 years	67 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	monthly rain	31.6 mm (1.2 in)	7.0 mm (0.28 in)	93 years	67 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Springbrook Forestry, AU	daily rain	186.0 mm (7.3 in)	125.0 mm (4.9 in)	60 years	65 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Altgeringswalde, DE	monthly rain	36.7 mm (1.4 in)	16.2 mm (0.6 in)	33 years	63 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Sandstone, AU	daily rain	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	75 years	62 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Coramba (Glenfiddich), AU	daily rain	113.8 mm (4.5 in)	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	43 years	61 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Buttah, AU	all-time rain	100.4 mm (4.0 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	41 years	60 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Cogla Downs, AU	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	52 years	60 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Leinefelde, DE	monthly rain	43.3 mm (1.7 in)	14.9 mm (0.6 in)	27 years	60 of 100 (Major)
19 December 1988	Meekatharra Airport, AU	monthly rain	40.2 mm (1.6 in)	16.6 mm (0.7 in)	20 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1988	Wiluna, AU	all-time rain	112.8 mm (4.4 in)	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	41 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1988	Tomewin (Border Gate), AU	daily rain	144.0 mm (5.7 in)	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	75 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
19 December 1988	Zeitz, DE	monthly rain	33.4 mm (1.3 in)	13.9 mm (0.5 in)	19 years	58 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 1988

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1988. 1988 had 1,001 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

Download the Data

Data for records on 1988-12-19: 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 50	803
50 to 100	17
100 to 150	5
150 to 200	1
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	0
300 to 350	1