Weather Records on 14 May 1909

44 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 14 May 1909. Highest significance: Euston Post Office, AU.

Key Facts for 14 May 1909

On 14 May 1909, 44 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
7 were record highs and 8 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 2 monthly and 42 daily.
Euston Post Office set a daily record precipitation of 34.3 mm (1.4 in) on 14 May 1909.
Across 165 earlier years (1813 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 418 records.

Record Map

44 stations

44 station records on 14 May 1909 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 14 May 1909: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Euston Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Poplitah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Whroo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Wentworth Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Wentworth (Avoca)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Noorong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Smeaton Weir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Bathurst Gaol	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Swan Hill (Murray Downs)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Forbes (Camp Street)	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Sydney (Observatory Hill)	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Wahgunyah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Werribee (Wyndham)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sunbury (Salesian College )	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kew	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stornoway Airport	United Kingdom	Record low maximum temperature	5.6 C (42.1 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Daylesford	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Menindee (Weinteriga)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Kaarimba	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Scotsburn (Mount Boninyong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Warrnambool Shire Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Ballan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Ny City Cntrl Park	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Dublin Phoenix Park	Ireland	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Dubuque River	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Maryborough	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Uccle	Belgium	Record low minimum temperature	-1.4 C (29.5 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Hatfield (Clare)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Newlyn Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Dandenong (Comberoond)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Vestervig	Denmark	Record low maximum temperature	7.1 C (44.8 F)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Alexandra (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Karlsruhe	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	0.8 C (33.4 F)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Saint John	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Wagga Wagga (Kooringal)	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	6 of 100 (Routine)
Goulburn River @ Shepparton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	6 of 100 (Routine)
Clunes	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	5 of 100 (Routine)
Nordby (Fano)	Denmark	Record low maximum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	5 of 100 (Routine)
Newark Liberty Intl AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	5 of 100 (Routine)
Balranald (Rsl)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	4 of 100 (Routine)
Kyneton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	4 of 100 (Routine)
Hamilton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	4 of 100 (Routine)
Berlin-Dahlem	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	10.4 C (50.7 F)	2 of 100 (Routine)
Galway	Ireland	Record low minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	1 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

44 records

Records set or tied on 14 May 1909 by type: Highest daily maximum 1, Lowest daily maximum 4, Highest daily minimum 6, Lowest daily minimum 4, Heaviest daily rainfall 29.

Records on 14 May 1909 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	1
Lowest daily maximum	4
Highest daily minimum	6
Lowest daily minimum	4
Heaviest daily rainfall	29
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 14 May 1909 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 2, daily 42.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

41 broken records

Margins by which the 41 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 32.7. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

14 May 1909

Top 20 records on 14 May 1909 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
14 May 1909	Euston Post Office, AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	18 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1909	Poplitah, AU	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	18 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1909	Whroo, AU	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	3 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1909	Wentworth Post Office, AU	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	0 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1909	Wentworth (Avoca), AU	monthly rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	28 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Noorong, AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	3 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Smeaton Weir, AU	monthly rain	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	5.4 mm (0.21 in)	15 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Bathurst Gaol, AU	daily high min	7.2 C (45.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	34 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Swan Hill (Murray Downs), AU	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	0 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Forbes (Camp Street), AU	daily high min	15.6 C (60.1 F)	3.4 C (6.1 F)	30 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Sydney (Observatory Hill), AU	daily high max	24.4 C (75.9 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	35 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Wahgunyah, AU	daily rain	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	0 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Werribee (Wyndham), AU	daily rain	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	11.6 mm (0.5 in)	20 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Sunbury (Salesian College ), AU	daily rain	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	7.4 mm (0.29 in)	29 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Kew, AU	daily rain	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	26 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Stornoway Airport, GB	daily low max	5.6 C (42.1 F)	2.7 C (4.9 F)	29 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Daylesford, AU	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	0 years	18 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Menindee (Weinteriga), AU	daily rain	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	25 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Kaarimba, AU	daily rain	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	0 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
14 May 1909	Scotsburn (Mount Boninyong), AU	daily rain	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	29 years	17 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

1813 to 1909

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1813 to 1909. 1909 had 44 records.

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

Records on 05-14 in each year
Year	Records
1813	1
1814	1
1815	1
1816	1
1820	1
1833	1
1837	1
1844	1
1846	1
1848	2
1849	1
1854	1
1855	2
1861	1
1862	1
1864	1
1866	1
1870	1
1873	1
1874	1
1875	2
1876	1
1878	2
1879	4
1881	1
1882	1
1883	3
1884	1
1885	4
1886	1
1890	3
1891	1
1892	1
1893	1
1895	3
1896	4
1897	6
1898	3
1899	2
1900	13
1901	4
1902	7
1903	7
1904	11
1905	4
1906	15
1907	17
1908	39
1909	44
1910	22
1911	15
1912	19
1913	125
1914	24
1915	196
1916	50
1917	79
1918	42
1919	29
1920	52
1921	61
1922	67
1923	94
1924	117
1925	59
1926	73
1927	173
1928	189
1929	176
1930	166
1931	733
1932	367
1933	653
1934	175
1935	255
1936	342
1937	432
1938	310
1939	323
1940	324
1941	569
1942	398
1943	543
1944	368
1945	665
1946	308
1947	282
1948	326
1949	302
1950	170
1951	444
1952	302
1953	730
1954	416
1955	600
1956	683
1957	580
1958	534
1959	501
1960	617
1961	627
1962	948
1963	422
1964	468
1965	313
1966	348
1967	715
1968	1,052
1969	638
1970	553
1971	562
1972	546
1973	802
1974	915
1975	386
1976	593
1977	1,109
1978	926
1979	481
1980	496
1981	494
1982	668
1983	1,176
1984	1,084
1985	915
1986	776
1987	1,145
1988	540
1989	521
1990	594
1991	1,181
1992	740
1993	989
1994	830
1995	2,263
1996	1,869
1997	887
1998	1,375
1999	817
2000	872
2001	1,197
2002	963
2003	959
2004	1,501
2005	748
2006	707
2007	957
2008	778
2009	693
2010	1,092
2011	888
2012	819
2013	1,218
2014	1,038
2015	559
2016	635
2017	393
2018	1,113
2019	483
2020	514
2021	404
2022	924
2023	591
2024	558
2025	785
2026	525

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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 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 5	21
5 to 10	10
10 to 15	3
15 to 20	2
20 to 25	2
25 to 30	2
30 to 35	1