Weather Records on 11 May 1923

111 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 11 May 1923. Highest significance: Galway, IE.

Key Facts for 11 May 1923

On 11 May 1923, 111 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
14 were record highs and 61 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 6 monthly and 105 daily.
Galway set a daily record low maximum temperature of 7.8 C (46.0 F) on 11 May 1923.
Across 156 earlier years (1814 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 466 records.

Record Map

111 stations

111 station records on 11 May 1923 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 11 May 1923: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Galway	Ireland	Record low maximum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Lucknow	Canada	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomington Normal	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Rutherglen	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-12.2 C (10.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Kissimmee	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Las Vegas 2 NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
State UNIV	United States	Record low minimum temperature	1.1 C (34.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cootamundra (Landgrove)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gysinge	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	10.6 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Record daily precipitation	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Algiers-Ville/Universite	Algeria	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kiandra Chalet	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Salekhard	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-23.6 C (-10.5 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sfax El-Maou	Tunisia	Record high maximum temperature	33.0 C (91.4 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Georgetown Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Sonnblick	Austria	Record low minimum temperature	-14.4 C (6.1 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Tizi Ouzou	Algeria	Record daily precipitation	22.5 mm (0.9 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Mortlake	Australia	Record daily precipitation	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Federal Pt	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Asheville	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Nemours (Ghazaouet)	Algeria	Record low maximum temperature	18.0 C (64.4 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Jamieson	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Uccle	Belgium	Record low maximum temperature	7.9 C (46.2 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Vestervig	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	0.2 C (32.4 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Oksoey Fyr	Norway	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Herschel	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	5.8 mm (0.23 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Coleraine (Tulse Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Alton	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Przhevalsk	Kyrgyzstan	Record daily precipitation	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
St. Petersburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	8.0 mm (0.31 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Washington	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Houston	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Orlando Executive AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Biskra	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	21.0 C (69.8 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Port Lincoln	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	15.8 C (60.4 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Clyde State School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Winterswijk	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	12.1 mm (0.5 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Lady Frere (Tnk)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	4.8 mm (0.19 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Hutchinson River	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Wappingers Falls	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-3.9 C (25.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Orlando Executive AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Batlow Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Yellowin	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Bancroft	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	1.1 C (34.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Montreal McGill	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-1.7 C (28.9 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Nordby (Fano)	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Gainesville UNIV of Fl	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Ogdensburg 4 NE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-2.8 C (27.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Grafton 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Orleansville (Chlef)	Algeria	Record daily precipitation	12.9 mm (0.5 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Irvinebank	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Thowgla Upper	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Pennyroyal Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Vasilevici	Belarus	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Canon City	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.9 C (93.0 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Water Valley	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Sloan 3 S	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Newberry	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Society Hill 6 S	United States	Record low minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Burlington	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-1.7 C (28.9 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

111 records

Records set or tied on 11 May 1923 by type: Highest daily maximum 7, Lowest daily maximum 12, Highest daily minimum 7, Lowest daily minimum 49, Heaviest daily rainfall 35, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.

Records on 11 May 1923 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	7
Lowest daily maximum	12
Highest daily minimum	7
Lowest daily minimum	49
Heaviest daily rainfall	35
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 11 May 1923 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 6, daily 105.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

86 broken records

Margins by which the 86 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 51.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

11 May 1923

Top 20 records on 11 May 1923 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
11 May 1923	Galway, IE	daily low max	7.8 C (46.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	52 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Lucknow, CA	daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	37 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Bloomington Normal, US	monthly rain	79.5 mm (3.1 in)	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	8 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Rutherglen, CA	daily low min	-12.2 C (10.0 F)	7.2 C (13.0 F)	22 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Kissimmee, US	daily low min	7.8 C (46.0 F)	4.4 C (7.9 F)	16 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Las Vegas 2 NW, US	daily high min	15.6 C (60.1 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	24 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	State UNIV, US	monthly low min	1.1 C (34.0 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	14 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Cootamundra (Landgrove), AU	daily rain	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	29 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Gysinge, SE	daily rain	10.6 mm (0.4 in)	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	36 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Tashkent, UZ	daily rain	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	11.8 mm (0.5 in)	2 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Algiers-Ville/Universite, DZ	daily rain	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	5.9 mm (0.23 in)	32 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Kiandra Chalet, AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	36 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Salekhard, RU	daily low min	-23.6 C (-10.5 F)	5.5 C (9.9 F)	31 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Sfax El-Maou, TN	daily high max	33.0 C (91.4 F)	3.0 C (5.4 F)	29 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Georgetown Post Office, AU	daily rain	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	0.5 mm (0.02 in)	49 years	19 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Sonnblick, AT	daily low min	-14.4 C (6.1 F)	2.4 C (4.3 F)	34 years	19 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Tizi Ouzou, DZ	daily rain	22.5 mm (0.9 in)	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	13 years	18 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Mortlake, AU	daily rain	7.6 mm (0.30 in)	1.8 mm (0.07 in)	36 years	18 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Federal Pt, US	monthly low min	6.7 C (44.1 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	15 years	18 of 100 (Routine)
11 May 1923	Asheville, US	daily low min	2.2 C (36.0 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	45 years	18 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

1814 to 1923

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1814 to 1923. 1923 had 111 records.

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

Records on 05-11 in each year
Year	Records
1814	3
1832	1
1836	3
1837	1
1838	1
1848	2
1856	1
1860	2
1865	1
1867	1
1869	1
1872	1
1874	2
1879	2
1880	1
1881	5
1883	3
1884	2
1885	1
1886	2
1887	1
1888	1
1889	2
1892	1
1893	3
1894	2
1895	4
1896	3
1897	6
1898	5
1900	7
1901	9
1902	6
1903	7
1904	6
1905	12
1906	21
1907	44
1908	9
1909	12
1910	16
1911	99
1912	21
1913	20
1914	20
1915	16
1916	22
1917	40
1918	54
1919	56
1920	181
1921	58
1922	61
1923	111
1924	239
1925	410
1926	472
1927	318
1928	252
1929	126
1930	380
1931	254
1932	170
1933	429
1934	332
1935	276
1936	363
1937	170
1938	141
1939	213
1940	340
1941	411
1942	389
1943	646
1944	408
1945	483
1946	747
1947	480
1948	407
1949	451
1950	285
1951	395
1952	629
1953	686
1954	492
1955	235
1956	942
1957	439
1958	499
1959	575
1960	809
1961	663
1962	670
1963	984
1964	299
1965	356
1966	992
1967	974
1968	909
1969	349
1970	764
1971	565
1972	673
1973	429
1974	795
1975	383
1976	509
1977	836
1978	1,070
1979	1,239
1980	693
1981	1,298
1982	624
1983	930
1984	666
1985	835
1986	684
1987	1,247
1988	485
1989	952
1990	935
1991	990
1992	728
1993	1,088
1994	633
1995	1,244
1996	1,088
1997	1,033
1998	1,315
1999	1,052
2000	1,286
2001	848
2002	845
2003	1,321
2004	834
2005	944
2006	822
2007	833
2008	1,015
2009	605
2010	1,292
2011	1,414
2012	1,181
2013	615
2014	662
2015	1,038
2016	497
2017	546
2018	988
2019	915
2020	1,068
2021	590
2022	1,470
2023	390
2024	579
2025	1,104
2026	797

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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 10	80
10 to 20	5
20 to 30	0
30 to 40	0
40 to 50	0
50 to 60	1