Weather Records on 21 May 1949

593 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 21 May 1949. Highest significance: Goulburn, AU.

Key Facts for 21 May 1949

On 21 May 1949, 593 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
59 were record highs and 66 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 22 monthly and 570 daily.
Goulburn set a daily record precipitation of 79.2 mm (3.1 in) on 21 May 1949.
Across 156 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 460 records.

Record Map

593 stations

593 station records on 21 May 1949 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 21 May 1949: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Goulburn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
Bringelly (Maryland)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	124.7 mm (4.9 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Camden Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	103.6 mm (4.1 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Menangle Jmai	Australia	Record daily precipitation	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Goulburn (Kippilaw)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Balranald (Rsl)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Paika	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Kings Tablelands	Australia	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Prospect Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Bowral Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	86.9 mm (3.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Robertson (Caalong Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	160.5 mm (6.3 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Salzburg	Austria	Record daily precipitation	103.8 mm (4.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Cataract Dam	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.9 mm (4.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Uthamapalayam	India	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Tarago (Willeroo)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Yarra (Rowe's Lagoon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Maude Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Passau-Maierhof	Germany	Record daily precipitation	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Crookwell Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Goulburn (Pomeroy)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Bungonia (Inverary Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Wayne Maumee	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Tarago (Kildare)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Cobbity (Roseneath)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	174.8 mm (6.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Collector (Brookdale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Reit Im Winkl	Germany	Record daily precipitation	84.5 mm (3.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Umrer	India	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Campbelltown 1	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Marulan (George St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Bungendore Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Cotter River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Gosford (Narara Research Stati	Australia	Record daily precipitation	126.7 mm (5.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Albion Park Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	105.4 mm (4.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Darkes Forest (Kintyre)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	115.1 mm (4.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Goulburn 2	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Simdega	India	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Nidamangalam	India	Record daily precipitation	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Meilman	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Moss Vale (Hoskins Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.4 mm (2.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hall (Lochleigh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Queanbeyan Bowling Club	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Queimadas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Canoon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Boigbeat	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Karunagapalli	India	Record daily precipitation	147.3 mm (5.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Osmanabad	India	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sivagiri	India	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sigourney	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.8 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Balranald (Tillara)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bungendore (Gidleigh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	62.7 mm (2.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lower Boro (Calderwood)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Saraikela	India	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Wyong (Wyong Golf Club)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	158.0 mm (6.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Katoomba (Murri St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Senhor Do Bonfim	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Wakefield 3NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Menangle	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kudal	India	Record daily precipitation	105.7 mm (4.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Peak Hill (Bruie Plains)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	81.5 mm (3.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Picton Council Depot	Australia	Record daily precipitation	132.1 mm (5.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

593 records

Records set or tied on 21 May 1949 by type: Highest daily maximum 10, Lowest daily maximum 23, Highest daily minimum 49, Lowest daily minimum 43, Heaviest daily rainfall 461, Heaviest daily snowfall 7.

Records on 21 May 1949 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	10
Lowest daily maximum	23
Highest daily minimum	49
Lowest daily minimum	43
Heaviest daily rainfall	461
Heaviest daily snowfall	7
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 21 May 1949 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 22, daily 570.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

532 broken records

Margins by which the 532 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 106.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

21 May 1949

Top 20 records on 21 May 1949 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
21 May 1949	Goulburn, AU	daily rain	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	64.2 mm (2.5 in)	89 years	75 of 100 (Major)
21 May 1949	Bringelly (Maryland), AU	daily rain	124.7 mm (4.9 in)	106.4 mm (4.2 in)	51 years	63 of 100 (Major)
21 May 1949	Camden Bowling Club, AU	daily rain	103.6 mm (4.1 in)	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	51 years	61 of 100 (Major)
21 May 1949	Menangle Jmai, AU	daily rain	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	51 years	61 of 100 (Major)
21 May 1949	Goulburn (Kippilaw), AU	daily rain	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	52 years	61 of 100 (Major)
21 May 1949	Balranald (Rsl), AU	daily rain	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	46 years	60 of 100 (Major)
21 May 1949	Paika, AU	daily rain	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	46 years	60 of 100 (Major)
21 May 1949	Kings Tablelands, AU	daily rain	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	44 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Prospect Reservoir, AU	daily rain	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	51 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Bowral Post Office, AU	daily rain	86.9 mm (3.4 in)	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	51 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Robertson (Caalong Street), AU	daily rain	160.5 mm (6.3 in)	97.0 mm (3.8 in)	51 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Salzburg, AT	monthly rain	103.8 mm (4.1 in)	33.4 mm (1.3 in)	20 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Cataract Dam, AU	daily rain	105.9 mm (4.2 in)	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	35 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Uthamapalayam, IN	daily rain	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	32 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Tarago (Willeroo), AU	daily rain	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	30 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Yarra (Rowe's Lagoon), AU	daily rain	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	26 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Maude Post Office, AU	monthly rain	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	42 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Passau-Maierhof, DE	daily rain	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	18.7 mm (0.7 in)	54 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Crookwell Post Office, AU	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	59 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
21 May 1949	Goulburn (Pomeroy), AU	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	44.9 mm (1.8 in)	24 years	51 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

1793 to 1949

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1949. 1949 had 593 records.

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

Records on 05-21 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1795	1
1811	1
1837	2
1842	1
1847	2
1854	1
1857	1
1858	1
1865	1
1866	1
1870	2
1875	1
1876	1
1880	2
1882	1
1885	1
1886	2
1887	3
1889	5
1890	3
1891	6
1892	1
1893	1
1894	4
1895	4
1896	5
1897	2
1898	1
1899	5
1900	1
1901	3
1902	4
1903	26
1904	8
1905	7
1906	12
1907	36
1908	13
1909	13
1910	14
1911	87
1912	24
1913	13
1914	26
1915	24
1916	13
1917	76
1918	51
1919	170
1920	39
1921	158
1922	39
1923	125
1924	148
1925	250
1926	221
1927	207
1928	173
1929	247
1930	133
1931	488
1932	343
1933	290
1934	590
1935	190
1936	328
1937	227
1938	348
1939	355
1940	456
1941	525
1942	482
1943	463
1944	310
1945	515
1946	324
1947	485
1948	312
1949	593
1950	403
1951	271
1952	385
1953	501
1954	961
1955	507
1956	409
1957	709
1958	511
1959	684
1960	615
1961	306
1962	553
1963	598
1964	788
1965	238
1966	296
1967	1,022
1968	549
1969	832
1970	449
1971	536
1972	557
1973	493
1974	847
1975	1,160
1976	393
1977	756
1978	575
1979	787
1980	857
1981	1,550
1982	599
1983	1,106
1984	950
1985	610
1986	908
1987	1,242
1988	819
1989	671
1990	947
1991	1,065
1992	1,143
1993	1,197
1994	656
1995	749
1996	1,461
1997	953
1998	1,200
1999	544
2000	897
2001	1,187
2002	2,048
2003	807
2004	898
2005	1,020
2006	810
2007	894
2008	740
2009	1,315
2010	962
2011	959
2012	848
2013	884
2014	522
2015	956
2016	567
2017	780
2018	525
2019	1,668
2020	707
2021	1,131
2022	1,512
2023	794
2024	751
2025	776
2026	356

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Data for records on 1949-05-21: 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 2026-10-14 (14 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	427
20 to 40	63
40 to 60	23
60 to 80	15
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	1