Weather Records on 23 January 1990

1,376 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 23 January 1990. Highest significance: Aachen, DE.

Key Facts for 23 January 1990

On 23 January 1990, 1,376 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
595 were record highs and 102 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 49 monthly and 1,327 daily.
Aachen set a daily record precipitation of 25.5 mm (1.0 in) on 23 January 1990.
Across 165 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 464 records.

Record Map

1,376 stations

1,376 station records on 23 January 1990 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 23 January 1990: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Aachen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Muenster	Germany	Record daily precipitation	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Wray	United States	Record snow depth	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Putten (Gld)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Bochum	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Wuppertal-Buchenhofen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	61.6 mm (2.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Waltershausen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Schinnen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Strijen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Belvaux	Luxembourg	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Ubachsberg	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Rush 1N	United States	Record snow depth	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Solingen-Hohenscheid	Germany	Record daily precipitation	54.2 mm (2.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Sitka AP	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.4 cm (8.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Lennestadt-Theten	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Lorentzweiler	Luxembourg	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Dortmund	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.3 mm (1.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Burgwald-Bottendorf	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Abbeville	France	Record daily precipitation	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Siegen (Klaranlage)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Ness City	United States	Record snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Engelskirchen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.3 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Fulda	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bad Wildungen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Clausthal-Zellerfeld	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.1 mm (1.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Noordgouwe	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	33.9 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Vaals	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Nurburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Remscheid-Lennep	Germany	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Nijkerk	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	28.6 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Conroe	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Altrier	Luxembourg	Record daily precipitation	33.9 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
San Felipe Usila	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Bilasuvar	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Dusseldorf-Sudfriedhof	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Arnsberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Dillenburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Biedenkopf	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	6.8 C (44.2 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Chippewa Valley Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Towera	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Caen-Carpiquet	France	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Eslohe	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kirchdorf/Poel	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	6.4 C (43.5 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Stiege	Germany	Record daily precipitation	56.2 mm (2.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Den Bommel	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hooker	United States	Record snow depth	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Peak Hill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Koumac (Nlle-Caledo	New Caledonia [France]	Record daily precipitation	1,732.0 mm (68.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Princeton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Des Moines	United States	Record snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bremen-Seefahrtschule	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	10.9 C (51.6 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Magdeburg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	11.0 C (51.8 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Ijsselmonde	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.3 mm (1.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-35.7 C (-32.3 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Ponte Alta Do Norte	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	57.0 mm (2.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	6.6 C (43.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Schoondijke	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,376 records

Records set or tied on 23 January 1990 by type: Highest daily maximum 195, Lowest daily maximum 62, Highest daily minimum 400, Lowest daily minimum 40, Heaviest daily rainfall 616, Heaviest daily snowfall 17, Deepest snow cover 46.

Records on 23 January 1990 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	195
Lowest daily maximum	62
Highest daily minimum	400
Lowest daily minimum	40
Heaviest daily rainfall	616
Heaviest daily snowfall	17
Deepest snow cover	46

Records on 23 January 1990 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 49, daily 1,327.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,202 broken records

Margins by which the 1,202 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 667.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

23 January 1990

Top 20 records on 23 January 1990 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
23 January 1990	Aachen, DE	daily rain	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	98 years	65 of 100 (Major)
23 January 1990	Muenster, DE	daily rain	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	10.6 mm (0.4 in)	98 years	64 of 100 (Major)
23 January 1990	Wray, US	daily snow depth	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	52 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Putten (Gld), NL	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	7.5 mm (0.30 in)	105 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Bochum, DE	daily rain	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	34 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Wuppertal-Buchenhofen, DE	daily rain	61.6 mm (2.4 in)	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	34 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Waltershausen, DE	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	18.2 mm (0.7 in)	34 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Schinnen, NL	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	17.4 mm (0.7 in)	34 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Strijen, NL	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	14.8 mm (0.6 in)	34 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Belvaux, LU	daily rain	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	34 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Altastenberg, DE	daily rain	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	15.1 mm (0.6 in)	76 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Ubachsberg, NL	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	16.7 mm (0.7 in)	31 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Rush 1N, US	daily snow depth	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	24 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Solingen-Hohenscheid, DE	monthly rain	54.2 mm (2.1 in)	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	52 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Sitka AP, US	daily snowfall	22.4 cm (8.8 in)	17.3 cm (6.8 in)	34 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Lennestadt-Theten, DE	daily rain	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	19.9 mm (0.8 in)	34 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Lorentzweiler, LU	monthly rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	28 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Dortmund, DE	daily rain	26.3 mm (1.0 in)	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	31 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Burgwald-Bottendorf, DE	monthly rain	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	12.0 mm (0.5 in)	14 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
23 January 1990	Abbeville, FR	daily rain	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	4 years	47 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

1795 to 1990

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 1990. 1990 had 1,376 records.

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

Records on 01-23 in each year
Year	Records
1795	2
1800	2
1812	1
1815	1
1823	3
1827	1
1840	1
1845	1
1846	2
1849	1
1850	1
1852	1
1855	2
1856	1
1860	1
1867	1
1869	2
1871	1
1872	1
1873	1
1874	1
1879	1
1880	1
1881	2
1882	1
1884	3
1886	1
1887	4
1888	1
1890	2
1891	3
1892	3
1893	5
1894	4
1895	4
1896	6
1897	1
1898	5
1899	8
1900	5
1901	5
1902	6
1903	5
1904	11
1905	4
1906	49
1907	22
1908	7
1909	60
1910	18
1911	5
1912	8
1913	32
1914	17
1915	30
1916	31
1917	245
1918	69
1919	28
1920	49
1921	38
1922	54
1923	63
1924	79
1925	118
1926	223
1927	262
1928	39
1929	304
1930	697
1931	243
1932	265
1933	757
1934	287
1935	588
1936	1,202
1937	686
1938	335
1939	406
1940	701
1941	345
1942	535
1943	1,200
1944	478
1945	146
1946	417
1947	414
1948	918
1949	705
1950	644
1951	283
1952	498
1953	531
1954	472
1955	568
1956	354
1957	593
1958	259
1959	535
1960	544
1961	529
1962	624
1963	1,366
1964	455
1965	831
1966	973
1967	1,336
1968	547
1969	1,128
1970	1,157
1971	407
1972	695
1973	495
1974	484
1975	457
1976	1,092
1977	629
1978	911
1979	1,109
1980	743
1981	1,387
1982	1,884
1983	845
1984	736
1985	775
1986	611
1987	1,231
1988	741
1989	634
1990	1,376
1991	891
1992	737
1993	1,273
1994	798
1995	991
1996	889
1997	936
1998	724
1999	2,024
2000	1,155
2001	588
2002	1,174
2003	1,269
2004	726
2005	1,207
2006	1,104
2007	1,127
2008	802
2009	1,334
2010	1,284
2011	741
2012	610
2013	764
2014	916
2015	561
2016	1,168
2017	1,089
2018	643
2019	688
2020	896
2021	455
2022	685
2023	567
2024	868
2025	1,016
2026	535

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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 100	1,189
100 to 200	9
200 to 300	2
300 to 400	1
400 to 500	0
500 to 600	0
600 to 700	1