Weather Records on 7 December 2018

558 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 7 December 2018. Highest significance: Schulenburg, US.

Key Facts for 7 December 2018

On 7 December 2018, 558 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
277 were record highs and 75 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 8 monthly and 549 daily.
Schulenburg set a daily record precipitation of 97.0 mm (3.8 in) on 7 December 2018.
Across 157 earlier years (1801 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 493 records.

Record Map

558 stations

558 station records on 7 December 2018 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 7 December 2018: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Schulenburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	97.0 mm (3.8 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Goychay	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Austin Bergstrom Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.6 mm (3.5 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
El Centro 2 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Palacios Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	119.1 mm (4.7 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Shreveport	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Cape Otway Lighthouse	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	38.4 C (101.1 F)	52 of 100 (Notable)
College STN Easterwood Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Luling	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Houston Intercontinental AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	109.5 mm (4.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Austin-Camp Mabry	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Lufkin Angelina Co AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	122.7 mm (4.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Houston William P Hobby AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.6 mm (3.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Yingkou	China	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Brady	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
El Dorado Goodwin Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Moose Pass 3NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Gonzales 2S	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.9 mm (3.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Watertown	United States	Record snow depth	45.7 cm (18.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Rocksprings	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Victoria Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.9 mm (3.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
East Sale Comparison	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	37.9 C (100.2 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Munchen-Nymphenburg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hawker	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	1.0 C (33.8 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mackay Aero	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.8 mm (3.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.7 C (47.7 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Iron Mtn	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hallettsville 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Killeen	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lexington	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bismarck 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Flatonia 4SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Essendon Airport	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Leipzig-Schkeuditz	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.6 C (47.5 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Salmon AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-20.5 C (-4.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Strasbourg-Entzheim	France	Record high minimum temperature	10.9 C (51.6 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	7.5 C (45.5 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lebec	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Homer AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Farleigh Co-Op Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Jukes	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Yumenzhen	China	Record low maximum temperature	-16.4 C (2.5 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kiel-Holtenau	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Wellington	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	15.4 C (59.7 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Dijon-Longvic	France	Record high minimum temperature	9.7 C (49.5 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Ust-Koksa	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-37.9 C (-36.2 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Dippoldiswalde-Reinberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.8 C (47.8 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Sasabe	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Salmon AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-7.1 C (19.2 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Gregory	United States	Record snow depth	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Felipe Carrillo Puerto (Obs)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Gorjacinsk	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-22.3 C (-8.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ust-Koksa	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-27.8 C (-18.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Hayfield Pumping Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Jiuquan	China	Record low minimum temperature	-24.5 C (-12.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Basel-Mulhouse	France	Record high minimum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Nemuro	Japan	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Longerenong	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	41.4 C (106.5 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Jackman	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-24.4 C (-11.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Muncheberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.4 C (47.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

558 records

Records set or tied on 7 December 2018 by type: Highest daily maximum 102, Lowest daily maximum 29, Highest daily minimum 175, Lowest daily minimum 46, Heaviest daily rainfall 179, Heaviest daily snowfall 11, Deepest snow cover 16.

Records on 7 December 2018 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	102
Lowest daily maximum	29
Highest daily minimum	175
Lowest daily minimum	46
Heaviest daily rainfall	179
Heaviest daily snowfall	11
Deepest snow cover	16

Records on 7 December 2018 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 8, daily 549.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

497 broken records

Margins by which the 497 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 102.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

7 December 2018

Top 20 records on 7 December 2018 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
7 December 2018	Schulenburg, US	daily rain	97.0 mm (3.8 in)	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	83 years	73 of 100 (Major)
7 December 2018	Goychay, AZ	daily rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	84.7 mm (3.3 in)	76 years	70 of 100 (Major)
7 December 2018	Austin Bergstrom Intl AP, US	daily rain	88.6 mm (3.5 in)	74.1 mm (2.9 in)	57 years	64 of 100 (Major)
7 December 2018	El Centro 2 SSW, US	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	33 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Palacios Muni AP, US	daily rain	119.1 mm (4.7 in)	97.0 mm (3.8 in)	36 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Shreveport, US	daily rain	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	71 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Cape Otway Lighthouse, AU	daily high max	38.4 C (101.1 F)	5.6 C (10.1 F)	145 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	College STN Easterwood Fld, US	daily rain	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	20 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Luling, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	103 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Houston Intercontinental AP, US	daily rain	109.5 mm (4.3 in)	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	20 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Austin-Camp Mabry, US	daily rain	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	57 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Lufkin Angelina Co AP, US	monthly rain	122.7 mm (4.8 in)	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	84 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Houston William P Hobby AP, US	daily rain	84.6 mm (3.3 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	83 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Yingkou, CN	monthly rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	38 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Brady, US	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	57 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	El Dorado Goodwin Fld, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	96 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Moose Pass 3NW, US	daily rain	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	27 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Gonzales 2S, US	monthly rain	90.9 mm (3.6 in)	21.0 mm (0.8 in)	26 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Watertown, US	daily snow depth	45.7 cm (18.0 in)	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	117 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
7 December 2018	Rocksprings, US	daily rain	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	15.8 mm (0.6 in)	71 years	44 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

1801 to 2018

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1801 to 2018. 2018 had 558 records.

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

Records on 12-07 in each year
Year	Records
1801	1
1805	1
1812	2
1815	1
1825	2
1832	1
1836	1
1839	1
1844	4
1848	3
1852	1
1856	3
1863	1
1866	1
1868	5
1871	5
1875	6
1879	5
1881	1
1884	2
1885	1
1889	1
1890	2
1891	3
1892	1
1893	5
1894	1
1895	1
1896	8
1897	4
1898	10
1899	3
1900	2
1901	9
1902	16
1903	9
1904	7
1905	3
1906	21
1907	4
1908	24
1909	21
1910	26
1911	7
1912	21
1913	19
1914	32
1915	53
1916	36
1917	52
1918	30
1919	38
1920	81
1921	39
1922	272
1923	128
1924	374
1925	119
1926	372
1927	404
1928	105
1929	146
1930	534
1931	180
1932	555
1933	130
1934	274
1935	270
1936	602
1937	890
1938	279
1939	780
1940	145
1941	139
1942	526
1943	199
1944	357
1945	240
1946	855
1947	240
1948	320
1949	187
1950	1,472
1951	1,751
1952	447
1953	673
1954	445
1955	195
1956	1,358
1957	589
1958	831
1959	539
1960	561
1961	206
1962	642
1963	436
1964	467
1965	476
1966	1,047
1967	386
1968	461
1969	952
1970	724
1971	854
1972	2,239
1973	448
1974	508
1975	404
1976	1,037
1977	1,369
1978	1,882
1979	827
1980	1,314
1981	896
1982	542
1983	957
1984	957
1985	922
1986	1,126
1987	866
1988	582
1989	675
1990	744
1991	698
1992	906
1993	544
1994	1,772
1995	912
1996	1,152
1997	818
1998	2,384
1999	674
2000	1,085
2001	743
2002	917
2003	1,184
2004	1,096
2005	1,433
2006	1,246
2007	1,402
2008	833
2009	972
2010	1,405
2011	1,507
2012	643
2013	2,119
2014	479
2015	1,079
2016	389
2017	508
2018	558
2019	447
2020	597
2021	547
2022	579
2023	952
2024	712
2025	665

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Data for records on 2018-12-07: 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 20	451
20 to 40	30
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	8
80 to 100	2
100 to 120	1