Weather Records on 5 February 2012

1,362 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 February 2012. Highest significance: Austwell, US.

Key Facts for 5 February 2012

On 5 February 2012, 1,362 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
168 were record highs and 866 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 52 monthly and 1,309 daily.
Austwell set a daily record precipitation of 59.4 mm (2.3 in) on 5 February 2012.
Across 154 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 538 records.

Record Map

1,362 stations

1,362 station records on 5 February 2012 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 February 2012: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Austwell	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Key W Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	110.2 mm (4.3 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Syracuse	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
McCook	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Mt Ayr	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Raymondville	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Zhytomyr	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Robstown	United States	Record daily precipitation	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Key West NAS	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Mohyliv-Podilskyi	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Putbus	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-15.5 C (4.1 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Rush 1N	United States	Record snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bernburg/Saale (Nord)	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-20.0 C (-4.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-8.7 C (16.3 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-41.8 C (-43.2 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Col du Grand St-Bernard	Switzerland	Record low minimum temperature	-22.6 C (-8.7 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Vaiden 1 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Kingsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Gorlitz	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-9.8 C (14.4 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Winterset 4N	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
David City 4E	United States	Record daily snowfall	19.0 cm (7.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Bishop	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Kewaunee	United States	Record high maximum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Tonsina	United States	Record snow depth	137.2 cm (54.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Tizi Ouzou	Algeria	Record low maximum temperature	4.8 C (40.6 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	Record high maximum temperature	34.6 C (94.3 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bernburg/Saale (Nord)	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-9.9 C (14.2 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Clausthal-Zellerfeld	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-19.4 C (-2.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Anadyr	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-44.4 C (-47.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Gallivare_A	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-39.2 C (-38.6 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bordeaux-Merignac	France	Record low maximum temperature	0.9 C (33.6 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hohenpeissenberg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-18.0 C (-0.4 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Baltijsk	Belarus	Record low maximum temperature	-14.6 C (5.7 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Vasilevici	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Berlin-Tegel	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-18.0 C (-0.4 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Vilnius	Lithuania	Record low maximum temperature	-17.6 C (0.3 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Oviedo	Spain	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Parnu	Estonia	Record low minimum temperature	-30.6 C (-23.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Leipzig-Schkeuditz	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-10.3 C (13.5 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Plauen	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-23.0 C (-9.4 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Boulder	United States	Record snow depth	35.6 cm (14.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Denver-Stapleton	United States	Record snow depth	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Poretta	France	Record low maximum temperature	3.4 C (38.1 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Tbilisi	Georgia	Record low maximum temperature	-1.4 C (29.5 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Fichtelberg	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-16.3 C (2.7 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Oberstdorf	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-28.0 C (-18.4 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Berlin-Tegel	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-9.1 C (15.6 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Lichtentanne	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-22.4 C (-8.3 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
San Tiburcio (Dge)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Wallace 2W	United States	Record snow depth	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Voru	Estonia	Record low minimum temperature	-31.4 C (-24.5 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Poitiers - Biard	France	Record low maximum temperature	-3.7 C (25.3 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Leipzig-Schkeuditz	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-17.4 C (0.7 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Berlin-Tempelhof	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-16.2 C (2.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Hiddensee-Vitte	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-15.3 C (4.5 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Barth	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-21.0 C (-5.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	-30.9 C (-23.6 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Basel Binningen	Switzerland	Record low maximum temperature	-6.1 C (21.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Waterdale	United States	Record snow depth	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pennington Gap	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,362 records

Records set or tied on 5 February 2012 by type: Highest daily maximum 71, Lowest daily maximum 500, Highest daily minimum 97, Lowest daily minimum 366, Heaviest daily rainfall 200, Heaviest daily snowfall 15, Deepest snow cover 113.

Records on 5 February 2012 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	71
Lowest daily maximum	500
Highest daily minimum	97
Lowest daily minimum	366
Heaviest daily rainfall	200
Heaviest daily snowfall	15
Deepest snow cover	113

Records on 5 February 2012 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 52, daily 1,309.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,225 broken records

Margins by which the 1,225 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 457.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 February 2012

Top 20 records on 5 February 2012 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 February 2012	Austwell, US	daily rain	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	49.2 mm (1.9 in)	66 years	69 of 100 (Major)
5 February 2012	Key W Intl AP, US	monthly rain	110.2 mm (4.3 in)	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	45 years	69 of 100 (Major)
5 February 2012	Syracuse, US	daily rain	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	16.6 mm (0.7 in)	92 years	62 of 100 (Major)
5 February 2012	McCook, US	daily rain	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	46 years	61 of 100 (Major)
5 February 2012	Mt Ayr, US	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	58 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Raymondville, US	daily rain	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	46 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Zhytomyr, UA	daily rain	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	28 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Robstown, US	daily rain	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	46 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Key West NAS, US	daily rain	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	64 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Mohyliv-Podilskyi, UA	monthly rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	8.1 mm (0.32 in)	27 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Putbus, DE	daily low min	-15.5 C (4.1 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	141 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Rush 1N, US	daily snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	22 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Bernburg/Saale (Nord), DE	daily low min	-20.0 C (-4.0 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	100 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Chemnitz, DE	daily low max	-8.7 C (16.3 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	116 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka, SE	daily low min	-41.8 C (-43.2 F)	3.8 C (6.8 F)	100 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Col du Grand St-Bernard, CH	daily low min	-22.6 C (-8.7 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	122 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Vaiden 1 SSW, US	daily rain	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	115 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Kingsville, US	daily rain	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	50 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Gorlitz, DE	daily low max	-9.8 C (14.4 F)	1.8 C (3.2 F)	100 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
5 February 2012	Winterset 4N, US	daily snowfall	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	1.8 cm (0.7 in)	100 years	43 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 2012

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 2012. 2012 had 1,362 records.

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

Records on 02-05 in each year
Year	Records
1795	2
1809	2
1814	1
1822	1
1827	2
1838	1
1841	2
1848	3
1851	2
1852	1
1855	1
1861	1
1862	2
1866	1
1869	5
1871	1
1884	1
1885	2
1886	2
1888	2
1889	3
1890	5
1892	2
1893	1
1895	4
1896	1
1897	5
1898	3
1900	10
1901	2
1902	4
1903	3
1904	14
1905	16
1906	10
1907	19
1908	23
1909	46
1910	20
1911	49
1912	41
1913	40
1914	31
1915	22
1916	25
1917	93
1918	105
1919	29
1920	72
1921	31
1922	80
1923	67
1924	237
1925	400
1926	112
1927	653
1928	265
1929	148
1930	161
1931	292
1932	353
1933	177
1934	153
1935	158
1936	734
1937	265
1938	1,308
1939	151
1940	295
1941	227
1942	407
1943	524
1944	287
1945	325
1946	666
1947	576
1948	625
1949	541
1950	574
1951	232
1952	453
1953	459
1954	666
1955	556
1956	450
1957	607
1958	233
1959	340
1960	520
1961	711
1962	639
1963	1,451
1964	553
1965	433
1966	616
1967	404
1968	256
1969	433
1970	448
1971	1,329
1972	394
1973	854
1974	443
1975	910
1976	1,140
1977	493
1978	892
1979	2,150
1980	756
1981	523
1982	2,248
1983	815
1984	612
1985	1,602
1986	1,375
1987	572
1988	1,158
1989	3,257
1990	1,225
1991	1,765
1992	562
1993	884
1994	629
1995	1,297
1996	2,815
1997	845
1998	991
1999	821
2000	647
2001	1,276
2002	1,589
2003	682
2004	1,724
2005	1,210
2006	833
2007	1,243
2008	2,428
2009	803
2010	1,422
2011	2,052
2012	1,362
2013	368
2014	1,441
2015	768
2016	519
2017	583
2018	960
2019	1,288
2020	1,050
2021	758
2022	444
2023	298
2024	803
2025	1,109
2026	1,234

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Data for records on 2012-02-05: 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 2026-10-15 (15 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 100	1,216
100 to 200	6
200 to 300	1
300 to 400	0
400 to 500	2