Weather Records on 5 May 1959

587 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 May 1959. Highest significance: Cottonwood Falls, US.

Key Facts for 5 May 1959

On 5 May 1959, 587 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
218 were record highs and 99 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 580 daily.
Cottonwood Falls set a daily record precipitation of 80.0 mm (3.1 in) on 5 May 1959.
Across 160 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 442 records.

Record Map

587 stations

587 station records on 5 May 1959 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 May 1959: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Cottonwood Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Manhattan	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Hudson	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Lodgepole	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Goondi Mill Csr	Australia	Record daily precipitation	114.0 mm (4.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Junction City	United States	Record daily precipitation	100.1 mm (3.9 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Neillsville 3ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Bucklin 1SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Birtle	Canada	Record daily snowfall	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Western 2W	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Brandwag	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Abilene	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Kalimpong Obsy Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Ellsworth	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Cerro	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Memphis	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hatfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Islampur	India	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Logan 1 WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
McPherson	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Collegeville St John's	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Denison	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Wilby	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Trousdale 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Spearman	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Minneola	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Wahoo	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Vajda-Guba	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	8.7 C (47.7 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Enterprise	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Fayetteville (Pwc)	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bedford	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Holton	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Wai	India	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
San Juan de Los Llanos	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Hebron	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Eskridge	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.2 mm (3.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Viroqua	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Beaver	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hammon 3 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Teriberka	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	6.2 C (43.2 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Winnibigoshish Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Supply 1 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Pocahontas 1	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Herington	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Smith Ctr	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Grant City	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Lincoln Agronomy Farm	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mulgrave Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Hubbard	Canada	Record daily snowfall	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Centralia	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Mt Hope	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Modesto AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Karasjok	Norway	Record high minimum temperature	6.0 C (42.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Svyatoy Nos;Cape(Closed)	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	17.9 C (64.2 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ostrov Sosnovez	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	3.2 C (37.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Morgan	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Florence	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Gaylord	United States	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Muskegon Co AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Van der Waltshoek	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

587 records

Records set or tied on 5 May 1959 by type: Highest daily maximum 104, Lowest daily maximum 55, Highest daily minimum 114, Lowest daily minimum 44, Heaviest daily rainfall 233, Heaviest daily snowfall 37.

Records on 5 May 1959 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	104
Lowest daily maximum	55
Highest daily minimum	114
Lowest daily minimum	44
Heaviest daily rainfall	233
Heaviest daily snowfall	37
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 5 May 1959 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 7, daily 580.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

438 broken records

Margins by which the 438 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 127.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 May 1959

Top 20 records on 5 May 1959 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 May 1959	Cottonwood Falls, US	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	48 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Manhattan, US	daily rain	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	48 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Hudson, US	daily rain	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Lodgepole, US	daily rain	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	54 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Goondi Mill Csr, AU	daily rain	114.0 mm (4.5 in)	53.5 mm (2.1 in)	58 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Junction City, US	daily rain	100.1 mm (3.9 in)	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	32 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Neillsville 3ESE, US	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	64 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Bucklin 1SE, US	daily rain	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	55.6 mm (2.2 in)	9 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Birtle, CA	daily snowfall	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	75 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Western 2W, US	daily rain	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	48 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Brandwag, ZA	daily rain	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	25.0 mm (1.0 in)	44 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Abilene, US	daily rain	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	37.4 mm (1.5 in)	32 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Kalimpong Obsy Sr, IN	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	41.2 mm (1.6 in)	25 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Ellsworth, US	daily rain	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	28 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Cerro, US	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	46 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Memphis, US	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	41 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Hatfield, US	daily rain	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	28 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Islampur, IN	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	48 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	Logan 1 WNW, US	monthly rain	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	43 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1959	McPherson, US	daily rain	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	25 years	42 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 1959

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 1959. 1959 had 587 records.

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

Records on 05-05 in each year
Year	Records
1795	2
1805	1
1836	1
1837	1
1840	1
1850	4
1852	1
1855	1
1856	2
1859	2
1861	5
1862	1
1864	2
1867	1
1875	2
1877	2
1878	1
1879	2
1880	1
1882	1
1884	2
1885	1
1886	3
1888	3
1889	5
1890	2
1891	3
1892	5
1894	3
1895	2
1896	1
1897	2
1898	6
1899	5
1900	3
1901	2
1902	5
1903	9
1904	14
1905	17
1906	4
1907	16
1908	14
1909	17
1910	19
1911	17
1912	17
1913	46
1914	39
1915	73
1916	98
1917	70
1918	24
1919	77
1920	41
1921	63
1922	98
1923	139
1924	132
1925	143
1926	220
1927	115
1928	149
1929	256
1930	469
1931	250
1932	166
1933	339
1934	448
1935	417
1936	377
1937	159
1938	362
1939	222
1940	446
1941	415
1942	529
1943	427
1944	1,237
1945	355
1946	306
1947	528
1948	671
1949	1,099
1950	893
1951	174
1952	723
1953	659
1954	607
1955	382
1956	363
1957	561
1958	404
1959	587
1960	773
1961	644
1962	261
1963	249
1964	643
1965	724
1966	1,413
1967	613
1968	434
1969	530
1970	386
1971	444
1972	292
1973	542
1974	716
1975	711
1976	402
1977	708
1978	1,033
1979	1,534
1980	562
1981	524
1982	659
1983	475
1984	767
1985	463
1986	968
1987	895
1988	820
1989	941
1990	1,511
1991	1,176
1992	1,004
1993	725
1994	743
1995	888
1996	1,368
1997	1,220
1998	1,707
1999	1,301
2000	1,442
2001	963
2002	883
2003	1,792
2004	1,401
2005	1,009
2006	657
2007	850
2008	453
2009	751
2010	1,053
2011	857
2012	1,281
2013	1,265
2014	680
2015	783
2016	554
2017	849
2018	481
2019	538
2020	403
2021	733
2022	514
2023	579
2024	961
2025	717
2026	538

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Data for records on 1959-05-05: 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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	373
20 to 40	45
40 to 60	11
60 to 80	5
80 to 100	3
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1