Weather Records on 31 December 2001

748 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 31 December 2001. Highest significance: Mount Wellington (the Springs), AU.

Key Facts for 31 December 2001

On 31 December 2001, 748 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
200 were record highs and 167 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 5 were all-time records, 55 monthly and 688 daily.
Mount Wellington (the Springs) set a daily record precipitation of 111.4 mm (4.4 in) on 31 December 2001.
Across 157 earlier years (1797 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 485 records.

Record Map

748 stations

748 station records on 31 December 2001 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 31 December 2001: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Mount Wellington (the Springs)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	111.4 mm (4.4 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Sunnybank Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.6 mm (4.2 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
El Obeid	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
En Nahud	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Kr. Neckar-Odenwald Buchen	Germany	Record snow depth	51.0 cm (20.1 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Archerfield Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Norddal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Beerfelden	Germany	Record snow depth	63.0 cm (24.8 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Chico UNIV Farm	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.5 mm (2.6 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Warsaw 6 SW	United States	Record daily snowfall	40.6 cm (16.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Lovsta	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Lowville	United States	Record daily snowfall	59.7 cm (23.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Vanersborg	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-25.1 C (-13.2 F)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Paulo Afonso	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Morris 2W	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Brombachtal-Kirch-Brombach	Germany	Record snow depth	32.0 cm (12.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Xochitlan Todos Santos	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kristianstad	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-17.5 C (0.5 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Fredonia	United States	Record daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Eberbach/Neckar	Germany	Record snow depth	35.0 cm (13.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Paul 1ENE	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Iliamna AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Gayndah Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	25.4 C (77.7 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Redlands Hrs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lynndon Park Bowls Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	104.4 mm (4.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
San Blas	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bloomingdale	United States	Record snow depth	66.0 cm (26.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Barkakra	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-23.4 C (-10.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hooker 12 NNW	United States	Record daily snowfall	48.3 cm (19.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Schluchtern-Herolz	Germany	Record snow depth	27.0 cm (10.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Erick	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.6 cm (2.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Graton	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Heath	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Paris 5 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Morgantown L&D	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Englesberg Village	Australia	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Rochedale South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.2 mm (3.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Chico UNIV Farm	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Hooker 12 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Tupper Lake Sunmount	United States	Record daily snowfall	24.1 cm (9.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gorlitz	Germany	Record snow depth	35.0 cm (13.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Miami	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kenmore War Vets Home	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Wittenberg	Germany	Record snow depth	27.0 cm (10.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Astana	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Hartley 4 ESE	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bluff Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Peto (Dge)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Aibonito 1 S	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Painesville 4 NW	United States	Record snow depth	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Weatherford	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Silverton	United States	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Morstone Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	88.2 mm (3.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Long Pocket Csiro Lab	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.4 mm (2.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bad-Neunkirchen Mergentheim	Germany	Record snow depth	31.0 cm (12.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Manuel Avila Camacho	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	5.6 C (42.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Pleasant	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Amberley AMO	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.4 mm (1.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Annaberg-Buchholz	Germany	Record snow depth	62.0 cm (24.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Kronach	Germany	Record snow depth	42.0 cm (16.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

748 records

Records set or tied on 31 December 2001 by type: Highest daily maximum 91, Lowest daily maximum 75, Highest daily minimum 109, Lowest daily minimum 92, Heaviest daily rainfall 173, Heaviest daily snowfall 60, Deepest snow cover 148.

Records on 31 December 2001 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	91
Lowest daily maximum	75
Highest daily minimum	109
Lowest daily minimum	92
Heaviest daily rainfall	173
Heaviest daily snowfall	60
Deepest snow cover	148

Records on 31 December 2001 by timescale: all-time 5, monthly 55, daily 688.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

591 broken records

Margins by which the 591 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 340.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

31 December 2001

Top 20 records on 31 December 2001 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
31 December 2001	Mount Wellington (the Springs), AU	daily rain	111.4 mm (4.4 in)	63.9 mm (2.5 in)	67 years	70 of 100 (Major)
31 December 2001	Sunnybank Bowls Club, AU	daily rain	105.6 mm (4.2 in)	73.3 mm (2.9 in)	58 years	67 of 100 (Major)
31 December 2001	El Obeid, SD	monthly rain	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	44 years	67 of 100 (Major)
31 December 2001	En Nahud, SD	monthly rain	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	40 years	66 of 100 (Major)
31 December 2001	Kr. Neckar-Odenwald Buchen, DE	daily snow depth	51.0 cm (20.1 in)	28.0 cm (11.0 in)	63 years	64 of 100 (Major)
31 December 2001	Archerfield Airport, AU	daily rain	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	58 years	63 of 100 (Major)
31 December 2001	Norddal, NO	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	20 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Beerfelden, DE	daily snow depth	63.0 cm (24.8 in)	34.0 cm (13.4 in)	32 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Chico UNIV Farm, US	daily rain	65.5 mm (2.6 in)	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	88 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Warsaw 6 SW, US	monthly snowfall	40.6 cm (16.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	24 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Lovsta, SE	daily rain	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	17.1 mm (0.7 in)	31 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Lowville, US	monthly snowfall	59.7 cm (23.5 in)	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	74 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Vanersborg, SE	monthly low min	-25.1 C (-13.2 F)	0.9 C (1.6 F)	119 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Paulo Afonso, BR	daily rain	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	60 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Mt Morris 2W, US	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	2.5 cm (1.0 in)	103 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Brombachtal-Kirch-Brombach, DE	daily snow depth	32.0 cm (12.6 in)	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	32 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Xochitlan Todos Santos, MX	daily high max	35.6 C (96.1 F)	5.6 C (10.1 F)	60 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Kristianstad, SE	daily low min	-17.5 C (0.5 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	113 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Fredonia, US	daily snowfall	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	32 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
31 December 2001	Eberbach/Neckar, DE	daily snow depth	35.0 cm (13.8 in)	12.0 cm (4.7 in)	60 years	42 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

1797 to 2001

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 2001. 2001 had 748 records.

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

Records on 12-31 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1799	2
1826	1
1836	1
1842	2
1850	3
1853	1
1854	1
1859	1
1860	1
1867	1
1870	2
1872	2
1874	4
1875	2
1876	2
1878	2
1879	2
1880	2
1882	1
1884	2
1885	1
1886	3
1887	1
1888	2
1890	2
1891	8
1892	4
1895	4
1897	6
1898	5
1899	4
1900	3
1901	16
1902	3
1903	3
1904	11
1905	9
1906	31
1907	11
1908	7
1909	5
1910	25
1911	14
1912	17
1913	46
1914	34
1915	32
1916	25
1917	239
1918	24
1919	38
1920	64
1921	130
1922	83
1923	280
1924	113
1925	183
1926	77
1927	491
1928	53
1929	224
1930	58
1931	543
1932	394
1933	409
1934	181
1935	309
1936	567
1937	500
1938	247
1939	298
1940	467
1941	159
1942	352
1943	159
1944	259
1945	210
1946	707
1947	461
1948	591
1949	384
1950	310
1951	1,421
1952	377
1953	410
1954	286
1955	429
1956	216
1957	724
1958	584
1959	414
1960	389
1961	309
1962	810
1963	1,015
1964	388
1965	1,371
1966	326
1967	1,023
1968	1,371
1969	825
1970	579
1971	568
1972	836
1973	1,370
1974	590
1975	791
1976	1,306
1977	641
1978	2,791
1979	448
1980	1,448
1981	786
1982	639
1983	2,220
1984	942
1985	593
1986	616
1987	845
1988	600
1989	506
1990	1,379
1991	703
1992	1,062
1993	718
1994	878
1995	1,151
1996	2,202
1997	988
1998	739
1999	524
2000	1,575
2001	748
2002	1,232
2003	523
2004	1,278
2005	959
2006	2,089
2007	652
2008	656
2009	867
2010	1,544
2011	739
2012	803
2013	606
2014	903
2015	748
2016	678
2017	1,589
2018	620
2019	593
2020	489
2021	1,739
2022	1,497
2023	474
2024	460
2025	760

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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	514
50 to 100	52
100 to 150	9
150 to 200	9
200 to 250	1
250 to 300	5
300 to 350	1