Weather Records on 8 May 1941

271 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 8 May 1941. Highest significance: Jena Sternwarte, DE.

Key Facts for 8 May 1941

On 8 May 1941, 271 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
76 were record highs and 118 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 264 daily.
Jena Sternwarte set a daily record low maximum temperature of 9.2 C (48.6 F) on 8 May 1941.
Across 163 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 432 records.

Record Map

271 stations

271 station records on 8 May 1941 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 8 May 1941: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Jena Sternwarte	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	9.2 C (48.6 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Hypoluxo	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Moran 5WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Vestervig	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-1.2 C (29.8 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Lungleh	India	Record daily precipitation	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Nordby (Fano)	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-1.7 C (28.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Sveg	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-9.3 C (15.3 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Berlin-Dahlem	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	6.6 C (43.9 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Jowai	India	Record daily precipitation	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sandvig	Denmark	Record low maximum temperature	4.3 C (39.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	7.5 C (45.5 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Kukicherra	India	Record daily precipitation	132.6 mm (5.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Sherkawan	India	Record daily precipitation	110.7 mm (4.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Sandvig	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Pierce	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Grove Farm 1021	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Cairns Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Koebenhavn: Landbohojskolen-1	Denmark	Record low minimum temperature	-0.8 C (30.6 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Braunschweig (T.H.)	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-1.4 C (29.5 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Boras	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	6.0 C (42.8 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Pitea	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-6.0 C (21.2 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Bamberg	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	8.6 C (47.5 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Visby_Flygplats	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-0.9 C (30.4 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Port Arthur	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	3.3 C (37.9 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Shawinigan	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Magdeburg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-0.8 C (30.6 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Falun	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-6.0 C (21.2 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Jokkmokk	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-12.5 C (9.5 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Wrixum/Fohr	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-1.2 C (29.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Tarnaby	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-12.0 C (10.4 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Gainesville UNIV of Fl	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Yuma Wb City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Cooma	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Muenster	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-0.7 C (30.7 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Nurnberg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Husum	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-3.0 C (26.6 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Vastervik	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	4.6 C (40.3 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Kissimmee	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Columbia 2SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Micurinsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	21.4 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gongolgon Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tottenham (Moira Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lissadell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fort Good Hope 2	Canada	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record snow depth	1.0 cm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sivagiri	India	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Murrays Lagoon (Bayside)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Koebenhavn: Landbohojskolen-1	Denmark	Record low maximum temperature	7.6 C (45.7 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fichtelberg	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	-2.4 C (27.7 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-3.1 C (26.4 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Weissenburg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-3.6 C (25.5 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kolosib	India	Record daily precipitation	174.0 mm (6.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Elatma	Russia	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record low minimum temperature	-3.7 C (25.3 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kristianstad	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	7.0 C (44.6 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Valley Head	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Saint Johns	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Newport 1 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Schwerin	Germany	Record low maximum temperature	6.4 C (43.5 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Halle	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-0.3 C (31.5 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

271 records

Records set or tied on 8 May 1941 by type: Highest daily maximum 24, Lowest daily maximum 57, Highest daily minimum 52, Lowest daily minimum 61, Heaviest daily rainfall 75, Deepest snow cover 2.

Records on 8 May 1941 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	24
Lowest daily maximum	57
Highest daily minimum	52
Lowest daily minimum	61
Heaviest daily rainfall	75
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	2

Records on 8 May 1941 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 7, daily 264.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

234 broken records

Margins by which the 234 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 56.9. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

8 May 1941

Top 20 records on 8 May 1941 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
8 May 1941	Jena Sternwarte, DE	daily low max	9.2 C (48.6 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	79 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Hypoluxo, US	daily rain	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	24 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Moran 5WNW, US	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	16 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Vestervig, DK	daily low min	-1.2 C (29.8 F)	2.4 C (4.3 F)	62 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Lungleh, IN	daily rain	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	10 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Nordby (Fano), DK	daily low min	-1.7 C (28.9 F)	2.1 C (3.8 F)	61 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Sveg, SE	daily low min	-9.3 C (15.3 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	58 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Berlin-Dahlem, DE	daily low max	6.6 C (43.9 F)	2.7 C (4.9 F)	64 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Jowai, IN	daily rain	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	27 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Sandvig, DK	daily low max	4.3 C (39.7 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	62 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	daily low max	7.5 C (45.5 F)	1.0 C (1.8 F)	69 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Kukicherra, IN	daily rain	132.6 mm (5.2 in)	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	12 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Sherkawan, IN	daily rain	110.7 mm (4.4 in)	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	10 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Sandvig, DK	daily low min	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	63 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Ft Pierce, US	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	27 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Grove Farm 1021, US	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	16 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Cairns Post Office, AU	daily rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	7.9 mm (0.31 in)	45 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Koebenhavn: Landbohojskolen-1, DK	daily low min	-0.8 C (30.6 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	61 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Braunschweig (T.H.), DE	daily low min	-1.4 C (29.5 F)	2.4 C (4.3 F)	48 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
8 May 1941	Boras, SE	daily low max	6.0 C (42.8 F)	2.5 C (4.5 F)	55 years	25 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

1795 to 1941

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 1941. 1941 had 271 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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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	214
10 to 20	10
20 to 30	5
30 to 40	0
40 to 50	3
50 to 60	2