Weather Records on 16 May 1958

361 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 16 May 1958. Highest significance: Cambridge (Milford), AU.

Key Facts for 16 May 1958

On 16 May 1958, 361 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
138 were record highs and 52 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 6 monthly and 355 daily.
Cambridge (Milford) set a daily record precipitation of 30.5 mm (1.2 in) on 16 May 1958.
Across 165 earlier years (1802 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 439 records.

Record Map

361 stations

361 station records on 16 May 1958 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 16 May 1958: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Cambridge (Milford)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Gandai	India	Record daily precipitation	76.7 mm (3.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Coonamble (Pier Pier)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Bosque del Apache	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Cicero Dantas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Colebrook (the Meadows)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Kempton (Oakmore)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Ranikhet	India	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Idracowra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Geneve Observatoire	Switzerland	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Sheohar	India	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Pauri	India	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Buckingham Downs	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Maria Island (Darlington)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Sankari	India	Record daily precipitation	62.7 mm (2.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Rokeby (the Mall)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Venukonda	India	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Vasilevici	Belarus	Record high minimum temperature	17.5 C (63.5 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Keokuk L&D 19	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Boggabri (Penryn)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Sussex 1 NW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Buckland (Brockley)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Palmyra	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kohala Mis 175.1	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Storrs	United States	Record low maximum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kailua 446	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Kellevie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Nuwara Eliya	Sri Lanka	Record high minimum temperature	15.7 C (60.3 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Polavaram	India	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ust-Maja	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-11.7 C (10.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Eagle Harbor	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Kohala 179.1	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Hargraves (the Elders)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Port Arthur	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Sorab	India	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Paterson	United States	Record low maximum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Aberdeen	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Longreach Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	32.2 C (90.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Bundaberg Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Chapple Vale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Safford	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Fall River	United States	Record low maximum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Concrete Ppl Fish STN	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Maragle Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Nugent	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Berens River	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Sendamangalam	India	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	3.6 C (38.5 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Uman	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	15.3 C (59.5 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Ai-Petri	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Colchester 2 W	United States	Record low maximum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
The Pas	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Sotchi	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.4 C (65.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Torrevieja	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	31.0 C (87.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Simferopol	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	14.9 C (58.8 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Livermore	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Charlotteburg Rsvr	United States	Record low maximum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Newton	United States	Record low maximum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Tennant Creek Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Debrecen Airport	Hungary	Record high minimum temperature	17.4 C (63.3 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

361 records

Records set or tied on 16 May 1958 by type: Highest daily maximum 81, Lowest daily maximum 40, Highest daily minimum 57, Lowest daily minimum 12, Heaviest daily rainfall 171.

Records on 16 May 1958 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	81
Lowest daily maximum	40
Highest daily minimum	57
Lowest daily minimum	12
Heaviest daily rainfall	171
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 16 May 1958 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 6, daily 355.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

297 broken records

Margins by which the 297 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 49.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

16 May 1958

Top 20 records on 16 May 1958 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
16 May 1958	Cambridge (Milford), AU	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	48 years	60 of 100 (Major)
16 May 1958	Gandai, IN	monthly rain	76.7 mm (3.0 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	32 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Coonamble (Pier Pier), AU	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	40 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Bosque del Apache, US	monthly rain	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	60 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Cicero Dantas, BR	daily rain	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	49.2 mm (1.9 in)	23 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Colebrook (the Meadows), AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	29 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Kempton (Oakmore), AU	daily rain	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	48 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Ranikhet, IN	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	52 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Idracowra, AU	daily rain	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	44 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Geneve Observatoire, CH	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	20.4 mm (0.8 in)	36 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Sheohar, IN	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	56 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Pauri, IN	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	40 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Buckingham Downs, AU	daily rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	37 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Maria Island (Darlington), AU	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	40 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Sankari, IN	daily rain	62.7 mm (2.5 in)	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	48 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Rokeby (the Mall), AU	daily rain	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	40 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Venukonda, IN	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	40 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Vasilevici, BY	monthly high min	17.5 C (63.5 F)	0.1 C (0.2 F)	65 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Keokuk L&D 19, US	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	32 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
16 May 1958	Boggabri (Penryn), AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	36 years	34 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

1802 to 1958

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1802 to 1958. 1958 had 361 records.

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

Records on 05-16 in each year
Year	Records
1802	1
1806	1
1820	1
1825	1
1832	1
1837	1
1847	1
1856	1
1858	1
1861	1
1862	1
1863	1
1864	1
1866	1
1867	2
1871	1
1874	3
1878	1
1879	1
1880	1
1881	1
1882	1
1883	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	1
1887	2
1888	2
1889	2
1890	1
1891	4
1892	3
1893	1
1894	2
1895	6
1896	2
1897	1
1898	11
1899	6
1900	7
1901	2
1902	10
1903	9
1904	17
1905	13
1906	25
1907	13
1908	6
1909	57
1910	24
1911	22
1912	13
1913	24
1914	11
1915	104
1916	38
1917	48
1918	395
1919	28
1920	69
1921	106
1922	31
1923	126
1924	152
1925	177
1926	211
1927	230
1928	121
1929	273
1930	170
1931	254
1932	441
1933	268
1934	304
1935	320
1936	520
1937	279
1938	299
1939	448
1940	334
1941	429
1942	721
1943	652
1944	531
1945	888
1946	327
1947	344
1948	281
1949	360
1950	210
1951	558
1952	773
1953	421
1954	251
1955	525
1956	697
1957	610
1958	361
1959	680
1960	370
1961	378
1962	1,295
1963	552
1964	313
1965	442
1966	420
1967	611
1968	790
1969	423
1970	520
1971	509
1972	625
1973	869
1974	1,207
1975	544
1976	518
1977	1,269
1978	808
1979	506
1980	830
1981	896
1982	427
1983	1,579
1984	981
1985	536
1986	747
1987	1,369
1988	946
1989	938
1990	1,068
1991	1,094
1992	809
1993	653
1994	705
1995	1,235
1996	1,835
1997	1,932
1998	1,500
1999	778
2000	1,129
2001	1,110
2002	694
2003	1,289
2004	869
2005	870
2006	1,345
2007	692
2008	1,034
2009	897
2010	836
2011	1,398
2012	770
2013	596
2014	1,483
2015	782
2016	793
2017	710
2018	1,013
2019	572
2020	431
2021	419
2022	717
2023	653
2024	601
2025	993
2026	558

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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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Histogram of margins by which records were beaten on 16 May 1958
Margin	Records
0 to 10	253
10 to 20	28
20 to 30	10
30 to 40	5
40 to 50	1