Weather Records on 8 May 1923

510 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 May 1923. Highest significance: Adelaide West Terrace, AU.

Key Facts for 8 May 1923

On 8 May 1923, 510 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
62 were record highs and 106 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 4 monthly and 506 daily.
Adelaide West Terrace set a daily record precipitation of 32.8 mm (1.3 in) on 8 May 1923.
Across 163 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 430 records.

Record Map

510 stations

510 station records on 8 May 1923 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 May 1923: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Adelaide West Terrace	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Gumeracha	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Owen Sound	Canada	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Minlaton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Adelaide (Pooraka)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Adelaide (Thorndon Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Freeling Railway	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Uccle	Belgium	Record daily precipitation	28.1 mm (1.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Curramulka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Stockwell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Stansbury	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Dingo Vale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Hahndorf	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Torrens	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Kanmantoo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Gawler Council Depot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Lobethal	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Lyndoch	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Seymour (Mag)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
North Adelaide	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgewater	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Virginia Sheedy Road	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Truro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Birdwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Pleasant	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Two Wells	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Woodside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Corny Point	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Barker	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bologna	Italy	Record high minimum temperature	20.3 C (68.5 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Nairne	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Peterborough	Canada	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Belair (State Flora Nursery)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Warooka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Echunga Golf Course	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Greenock	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Williamstown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Magill Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
San Diego Wbo	United States	Record high maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Lyndoch (Pewsey Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Frankfurt/Main (Feldbergstr.)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.5 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Hohenpeissenberg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	26.2 C (79.2 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Katberg (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Wanaaring Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Algiers-Ville/Universite	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Ashbourne	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Wien	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	28.8 C (83.8 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Barbara	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Warratta Tank	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Biskra	Algeria	Record low minimum temperature	8.0 C (46.4 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Uraidla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Milwaukee Wb City	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Milparinka Hotel	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ilulissat (Jakobshavn)	Greenland [Denmark]	Record daily precipitation	9.0 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Adelaide (Salisbury Bowling Cl	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Edithburgh Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Roseworthy Agric College	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Roseworthy	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Callington	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kerkwerve	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

510 records

Records set or tied on 8 May 1923 by type: Highest daily maximum 42, Lowest daily maximum 27, Highest daily minimum 20, Lowest daily minimum 79, Heaviest daily rainfall 336, Heaviest daily snowfall 6.

Records on 8 May 1923 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	42
Lowest daily maximum	27
Highest daily minimum	20
Lowest daily minimum	79
Heaviest daily rainfall	336
Heaviest daily snowfall	6
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 8 May 1923 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 4, daily 506.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

466 broken records

Margins by which the 466 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 165.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 May 1923

Top 20 records on 8 May 1923 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 May 1923	Adelaide West Terrace, AU	daily rain	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	61 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Gumeracha, AU	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	20 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Owen Sound, CA	monthly snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	16.5 cm (6.5 in)	14 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Minlaton, AU	daily rain	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	22 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Adelaide (Pooraka), AU	daily rain	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	20 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Adelaide (Thorndon Park), AU	daily rain	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	20 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Freeling Railway, AU	daily rain	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	20 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Uccle, BE	daily rain	28.1 mm (1.1 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	22 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Curramulka, AU	daily rain	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	23.8 mm (0.9 in)	22 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Stockwell, AU	daily rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	20 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Stansbury, AU	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	20 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Dingo Vale, AU	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	47.7 mm (1.9 in)	13 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Hahndorf, AU	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	20 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Mount Torrens, AU	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	13 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Kanmantoo, AU	daily rain	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	20 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Gawler Council Depot, AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	22 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Lobethal, AU	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	36.9 mm (1.5 in)	13 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Lyndoch, AU	daily rain	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	20 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	Seymour (Mag), ZA	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	12 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
8 May 1923	North Adelaide, AU	daily rain	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 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 1923

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 1923. 1923 had 510 records.

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

Records on 05-08 in each year
Year	Records
1795	2
1806	1
1825	1
1834	1
1845	2
1848	1
1849	1
1851	1
1852	1
1857	1
1858	2
1861	2
1862	1
1863	1
1865	1
1867	4
1868	1
1873	1
1874	3
1876	3
1879	1
1880	1
1882	4
1883	1
1885	1
1886	3
1888	2
1889	1
1890	2
1891	2
1892	2
1893	3
1894	1
1895	1
1896	3
1897	5
1898	2
1900	10
1901	5
1902	5
1903	11
1904	13
1905	17
1906	27
1907	7
1908	14
1909	19
1910	26
1911	34
1912	36
1913	34
1914	71
1915	35
1916	17
1917	108
1918	47
1919	132
1920	62
1921	35
1922	38
1923	510
1924	196
1925	272
1926	191
1927	328
1928	310
1929	194
1930	572
1931	403
1932	283
1933	553
1934	728
1935	78
1936	650
1937	107
1938	425
1939	235
1940	296
1941	271
1942	128
1943	465
1944	258
1945	646
1946	271
1947	1,152
1948	453
1949	361
1950	748
1951	274
1952	794
1953	580
1954	463
1955	411
1956	490
1957	546
1958	440
1959	252
1960	748
1961	556
1962	450
1963	1,105
1964	731
1965	704
1966	522
1967	573
1968	424
1969	542
1970	501
1971	413
1972	509
1973	527
1974	777
1975	555
1976	989
1977	682
1978	676
1979	1,113
1980	722
1981	613
1982	557
1983	638
1984	1,072
1985	591
1986	1,210
1987	1,226
1988	632
1989	1,543
1990	715
1991	710
1992	1,740
1993	892
1994	768
1995	1,340
1996	908
1997	973
1998	1,348
1999	985
2000	1,782
2001	851
2002	1,843
2003	1,420
2004	1,133
2005	685
2006	801
2007	718
2008	595
2009	779
2010	1,079
2011	602
2012	709
2013	686
2014	958
2015	647
2016	752
2017	467
2018	711
2019	723
2020	599
2021	419
2022	908
2023	579
2024	1,015
2025	380
2026	292

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Data for records on 1923-05-08: 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 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 25	448
25 to 50	16
50 to 75	0
75 to 100	1
100 to 125	0
125 to 150	0
150 to 175	1