Weather Records on 22 December 2021

293 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 22 December 2021. Highest significance: Plummer 3 WSW, US.

Key Facts for 22 December 2021

On 22 December 2021, 293 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
162 were record highs and 59 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 6 monthly and 284 daily.
Plummer 3 WSW set an all-time record daily precipitation of 126.2 mm (5.0 in) on 22 December 2021.
Across 163 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 513 records.

Record Map

293 stations

293 station records on 22 December 2021 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 22 December 2021: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Plummer 3 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	126.2 mm (5.0 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Alberta Ford For Ctr	United States	Record daily snowfall	27.4 cm (10.8 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Hebgen Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bet Dagan	Israel	Record daily precipitation	103.4 mm (4.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Makaweli 965	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Meda	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Pelican	United States	Record snow depth	94.0 cm (37.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hope	United States	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Ohe'o 258.6	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kissimmee 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kokshetay	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	-3.4 C (25.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pallamallawa Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Zahedan	Iran	Record high maximum temperature	26.0 C (78.8 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Ben Gurion	Israel	Record daily precipitation	108.7 mm (4.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Yan An	China	Record high maximum temperature	14.5 C (58.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Grand Portage	United States	Record daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Waiehu Camp 484	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.6 mm (3.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Smidovich	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-40.5 C (-40.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Hailun	China	Record low minimum temperature	-37.1 C (-34.8 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Yanzhou	China	Record high maximum temperature	15.7 C (60.3 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Eikeland	Norway	Record snow depth	65.0 cm (25.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ponferrada	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	17.5 C (63.5 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Junction Kimble Co AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Tindouf	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
San Pedro	Cote D'Ivoire	Record high maximum temperature	34.0 C (93.2 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Sion 2	Switzerland	Record low minimum temperature	-11.9 C (10.6 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Sivas	Turkey	Record low minimum temperature	-16.6 C (2.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Imperial Muni AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Yinchuan	China	Record high maximum temperature	9.9 C (49.8 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Jinan	China	Record high maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Raoul Isl/Kermadec	New Zealand	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Coronel Fap Alfredo Mendivil	Peru	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Mama	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-46.8 C (-52.2 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Prade Rch	United States	Record high maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Dutch Harbor	United States	Record high maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Roswell Ind Air Pk	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Newcastle Nobbys Signal Statio	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	23.0 C (73.4 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Yuanping	China	Record high maximum temperature	9.2 C (48.6 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Anyang	China	Record high maximum temperature	16.2 C (61.2 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Vladimir	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-29.7 C (-21.5 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Kirovskij	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-19.0 C (-2.2 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Lakewood	United States	Record high minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Hilo Intl AP 87	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Kutaisi	Georgia	Record low maximum temperature	0.4 C (32.7 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Nuuk	Greenland [Denmark]	Record high maximum temperature	12.7 C (54.9 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Zhezkazgan	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	-1.7 C (28.9 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Mariupol'	Ukraine	Record low minimum temperature	-12.2 C (10.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Grootfontein	Namibia	Record low minimum temperature	13.4 C (56.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Hanko Tvarminne	Finland	Record low maximum temperature	-9.0 C (15.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Zhezkazgan	Kazakhstan	Record high maximum temperature	2.3 C (36.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Tangier City	Morocco	Record high minimum temperature	15.8 C (60.4 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Iquitos	Peru	Record high minimum temperature	24.6 C (76.3 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Koslan	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-22.3 C (-8.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Zametchino	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-19.8 C (-3.6 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cascabel	United States	Record high maximum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Makena Golf Course 249.1	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Deming Muni AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Garah Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Gambona	Congo (Brazzaville)	Record high maximum temperature	34.0 C (93.2 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Cape Palinuro	Italy	Record low minimum temperature	0.9 C (33.6 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

293 records

Records set or tied on 22 December 2021 by type: Highest daily maximum 101, Lowest daily maximum 31, Highest daily minimum 61, Lowest daily minimum 28, Heaviest daily rainfall 57, Heaviest daily snowfall 3, Deepest snow cover 12.

Records on 22 December 2021 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	101
Lowest daily maximum	31
Highest daily minimum	61
Lowest daily minimum	28
Heaviest daily rainfall	57
Heaviest daily snowfall	3
Deepest snow cover	12

Records on 22 December 2021 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 6, daily 284.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

240 broken records

Margins by which the 240 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 407.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

22 December 2021

Top 20 records on 22 December 2021 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
22 December 2021	Plummer 3 WSW, US	all-time rain	126.2 mm (5.0 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	0 years	67 of 100 (Major)
22 December 2021	Alberta Ford For Ctr, US	daily snowfall	27.4 cm (10.8 in)	17.2 cm (6.8 in)	52 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Hebgen Dam, US	monthly rain	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	14 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Bet Dagan, IL	daily rain	103.4 mm (4.1 in)	49.4 mm (1.9 in)	34 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Makaweli 965, US	daily low max	23.3 C (73.9 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	100 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Meda, AU	daily rain	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	3.7 mm (0.15 in)	95 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Pelican, US	daily snow depth	94.0 cm (37.0 in)	40.7 cm (16.0 in)	52 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Hope, US	daily high min	7.8 C (46.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	87 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Ohe'o 258.6, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	39 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Kissimmee 2, US	daily rain	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	52 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Kokshetay, KZ	daily high min	-3.4 C (25.9 F)	5.5 C (9.9 F)	68 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 2021	Pallamallawa Post Office, AU	daily rain	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	51 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Zahedan, IR	daily high max	26.0 C (78.8 F)	3.0 C (5.4 F)	67 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Ben Gurion, IL	all-time rain	108.7 mm (4.3 in)	4.3 mm (0.17 in)	7 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Yan An, CN	daily high max	14.5 C (58.1 F)	3.0 C (5.4 F)	56 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Grand Portage, US	daily snowfall	15.2 cm (6.0 in)	1.7 cm (0.7 in)	59 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Waiehu Camp 484, US	daily rain	85.6 mm (3.4 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	56 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Smidovich, RU	daily low min	-40.5 C (-40.9 F)	4.1 C (7.4 F)	59 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Hailun, CN	daily low min	-37.1 C (-34.8 F)	0.9 C (1.6 F)	68 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 2021	Yanzhou, CN	daily high max	15.7 C (60.3 F)	0.1 C (0.2 F)	70 years	28 of 100 (Routine)

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

1793 to 2021

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 2021. 2021 had 293 records.

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

Records on 12-22 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1801	1
1804	1
1808	3
1824	1
1825	1
1844	1
1846	1
1855	6
1857	2
1859	1
1860	2
1863	1
1867	1
1868	1
1869	1
1870	2
1872	2
1874	1
1875	5
1877	1
1879	2
1880	1
1881	2
1882	1
1884	1
1886	2
1888	3
1889	2
1890	1
1891	2
1893	2
1894	4
1895	2
1896	1
1897	1
1898	2
1899	4
1900	2
1901	7
1902	9
1903	11
1904	3
1905	6
1906	13
1907	8
1908	29
1909	32
1910	28
1911	31
1912	37
1913	29
1914	159
1915	58
1916	62
1917	12
1918	64
1919	23
1920	36
1921	196
1922	29
1923	267
1924	396
1925	135
1926	188
1927	101
1928	114
1929	285
1930	97
1931	723
1932	219
1933	729
1934	119
1935	536
1936	274
1937	301
1938	248
1939	143
1940	436
1941	850
1942	812
1943	237
1944	624
1945	700
1946	264
1947	445
1948	378
1949	1,063
1950	428
1951	536
1952	447
1953	350
1954	510
1955	1,041
1956	878
1957	425
1958	544
1959	274
1960	1,353
1961	215
1962	521
1963	1,305
1964	1,184
1965	343
1966	279
1967	1,252
1968	1,478
1969	917
1970	984
1971	621
1972	719
1973	1,055
1974	498
1975	647
1976	605
1977	493
1978	363
1979	731
1980	580
1981	1,099
1982	637
1983	4,061
1984	794
1985	867
1986	523
1987	815
1988	699
1989	4,643
1990	3,228
1991	1,034
1992	522
1993	1,087
1994	920
1995	1,130
1996	939
1997	866
1998	1,106
1999	939
2000	925
2001	491
2002	652
2003	1,046
2004	899
2005	880
2006	1,390
2007	1,478
2008	1,000
2009	992
2010	1,632
2011	779
2012	837
2013	1,867
2014	915
2015	1,562
2016	550
2017	488
2018	514
2019	763
2020	948
2021	293
2022	1,047
2023	893
2024	477
2025	1,417

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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	235
100 to 200	3
200 to 300	1
300 to 400	0
400 to 500	1