Weather Records on 12 January 2015

743 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 January 2015. Highest significance: Den Helder-1, NL.

Key Facts for 12 January 2015

On 12 January 2015, 743 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
175 were record highs and 87 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 18 monthly and 724 daily.
Den Helder-1 set a daily record precipitation of 26.7 mm (1.1 in) on 12 January 2015.
Across 156 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 516 records.

Record Map

743 stations

743 station records on 12 January 2015 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 January 2015: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Den Helder-1	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Greenville	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Rocky Mt 8 ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Rocky Mt	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Dunn 4 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Ganzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Jefferson	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Lemmer (Gemaal Buma)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Alpine	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Yangjiang	China	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
McColl 3 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Wilson 3 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	100.3 mm (3.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Maristova	Norway	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Kit Carson	United States	Record daily snowfall	6.1 cm (2.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Benton Harbor AP	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Parrakie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Heyuan	China	Record daily precipitation	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
S Haven	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Shaoguan	China	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Bulken	Norway	Record snow depth	127.0 cm (50.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Gelendzik	Russia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Dutch Harbor	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Eernewoude	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Washington Wwtp 4W	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Southport Ridgeway Ave	Australia	Record daily precipitation	124.8 mm (4.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Trunkey Creek (Trunkey (Black	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Guangzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Daytona Beach	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Roundup	United States	Record snow depth	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Michelago (Soglio)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Norwalk Wwtp	United States	Record daily snowfall	9.7 cm (3.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Beaumont City	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Bergumerdam	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Roldal	Norway	Record snow depth	154.0 cm (60.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Tetonia Exp STN	United States	Record snow depth	48.3 cm (19.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Joure	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Primorsko-Ahtarsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	29.9 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Plymouth 5 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Great Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Raleigh AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Drachten	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kinston Ag Rsch	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Sewanee	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Oxenford (Oberon Way)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	135.4 mm (5.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Tullamore (Old Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Edam	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Jackson Springs 5 WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.6 mm (2.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Sanford 8 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Shanwei	China	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Harnosand	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Red Springs 1 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Green Rvr	United States	Record high minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Colorado Springs Muni AP	United States	Record snow depth	15.0 cm (5.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Taganrog (Lighthouse)	Russia	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Alton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	0.6 C (33.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Wittmann 1SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Hamlet	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Seneca	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Hoogkarspel	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Bognor Regis	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	26.1 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

743 records

Records set or tied on 12 January 2015 by type: Highest daily maximum 67, Lowest daily maximum 48, Highest daily minimum 108, Lowest daily minimum 39, Heaviest daily rainfall 417, Heaviest daily snowfall 38, Deepest snow cover 26.

Records on 12 January 2015 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	67
Lowest daily maximum	48
Highest daily minimum	108
Lowest daily minimum	39
Heaviest daily rainfall	417
Heaviest daily snowfall	38
Deepest snow cover	26

Records on 12 January 2015 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 18, daily 724.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

647 broken records

Margins by which the 647 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 450.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 January 2015

Top 20 records on 12 January 2015 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 January 2015	Den Helder-1, NL	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	149 years	65 of 100 (Major)
12 January 2015	Greenville, US	daily rain	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	85 years	64 of 100 (Major)
12 January 2015	Rocky Mt 8 ESE, US	daily rain	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	28.5 mm (1.1 in)	100 years	63 of 100 (Major)
12 January 2015	Rocky Mt, US	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	107 years	61 of 100 (Major)
12 January 2015	Dunn 4 NW, US	daily rain	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	51 years	60 of 100 (Major)
12 January 2015	Ganzhou, CN	daily rain	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	45 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Jefferson, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	93 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Lemmer (Gemaal Buma), NL	monthly rain	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	9.6 mm (0.38 in)	59 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Alpine, US	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	96 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Yangjiang, CN	daily rain	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	36 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	McColl 3 NNW, US	daily rain	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	51 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Wilson 3 SW, US	monthly rain	100.3 mm (3.9 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	60 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Maristova, NO	daily rain	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	8.0 mm (0.31 in)	104 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Kit Carson, US	daily snowfall	6.1 cm (2.4 in)	6.1 cm (2.4 in)	121 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Benton Harbor AP, US	daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	121 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Parrakie, AU	daily rain	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	43 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Heyuan, CN	daily rain	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	62.0 mm (2.4 in)	16 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	S Haven, US	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	5.0 cm (2.0 in)	111 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Shaoguan, CN	daily rain	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	29.9 mm (1.2 in)	36 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
12 January 2015	Bulken, NO	monthly snow depth	127.0 cm (50.0 in)	2.0 cm (0.8 in)	96 years	49 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

1794 to 2015

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 2015. 2015 had 743 records.

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

Records on 01-12 in each year
Year	Records
1794	2
1812	1
1830	2
1840	1
1849	1
1851	1
1856	2
1863	2
1867	1
1871	3
1873	2
1874	1
1875	2
1876	2
1877	3
1879	1
1881	1
1882	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	3
1889	1
1890	1
1893	4
1894	1
1895	4
1896	3
1897	4
1898	7
1899	9
1900	3
1901	8
1902	6
1903	13
1904	3
1905	15
1906	4
1907	12
1908	29
1909	19
1910	43
1911	70
1912	55
1913	19
1914	67
1915	39
1916	47
1917	118
1918	148
1919	24
1920	73
1921	31
1922	71
1923	65
1924	87
1925	141
1926	65
1927	144
1928	629
1929	103
1930	185
1931	142
1932	475
1933	91
1934	222
1935	299
1936	334
1937	260
1938	179
1939	296
1940	315
1941	246
1942	327
1943	440
1944	119
1945	490
1946	288
1947	258
1948	330
1949	510
1950	399
1951	368
1952	268
1953	1,207
1954	427
1955	302
1956	503
1957	376
1958	410
1959	568
1960	1,365
1961	291
1962	1,397
1963	2,005
1964	635
1965	346
1966	485
1967	436
1968	1,207
1969	514
1970	527
1971	763
1972	1,289
1973	564
1974	1,057
1975	1,205
1976	986
1977	1,078
1978	711
1979	1,295
1980	1,442
1981	1,508
1982	1,614
1983	1,115
1984	596
1985	896
1986	690
1987	2,007
1988	841
1989	1,019
1990	637
1991	1,324
1992	774
1993	1,923
1994	942
1995	1,688
1996	1,596
1997	1,957
1998	1,077
1999	871
2000	1,061
2001	575
2002	1,011
2003	737
2004	651
2005	1,918
2006	1,117
2007	1,410
2008	715
2009	839
2010	1,044
2011	1,714
2012	810
2013	1,481
2014	515
2015	743
2016	400
2017	1,358
2018	1,198
2019	919
2020	1,310
2021	618
2022	570
2023	830
2024	1,068
2025	543
2026	630

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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	636
100 to 200	5
200 to 300	3
300 to 400	2
400 to 500	1