Weather Records on 12 May 1965

196 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 12 May 1965. Highest significance: Inukjuak Ua, CA.

Key Facts for 12 May 1965

On 12 May 1965, 196 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
65 were record highs and 32 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 192 daily.
Inukjuak Ua set a monthly record daily snowfall of 17.0 cm (6.7 in) on 12 May 1965.
Across 164 earlier years (1814 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 454 records.

Record Map

196 stations

196 station records on 12 May 1965 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 12 May 1965: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Inukjuak Ua	Canada	Record daily snowfall	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Abbott 1 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Coleman	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Rotan	United States	Record daily precipitation	123.2 mm (4.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Bucuresti Filaret	Romania	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hamlin 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Breckenridge	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Durham	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Nuwara Eliya	Sri Lanka	Record high maximum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Buxton	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sagar Island	India	Record daily precipitation	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Lisboa Geofisica	Portugal	Record high maximum temperature	33.6 C (92.5 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kizljar	Russia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Davis	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Babuskin	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-5.0 C (23.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Lisboa Geofisica	Portugal	Record high minimum temperature	17.7 C (63.9 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Brackettville	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Putnam	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Yemassee 1 N	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Brocken	Germany	Record snow depth	60.0 cm (23.6 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Deloraine (Athol)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Quebrangulo	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	55.3 mm (2.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bradford	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Clinton Forestry HQ	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Sacaton	United States	Record low minimum temperature	1.7 C (35.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Smithfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Eagle Pass 3N	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Bellingham 2 N	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Inukjuak Ua	Canada	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Show Low	United States	Record daily precipitation	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Monticello 2E	United States	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ganado	United States	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Blanding	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pointe Au Pere	Canada	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Piute Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Buckeye	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Granite Reef Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Camargo (Smn)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bluff	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Fort Chipewyan	Canada	Record daily precipitation	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vysnij Volocek	Russia	Record daily precipitation	14.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Launceston Airport Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Campbell Town Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pinedale	United States	Record daily precipitation	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Shiprock	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Balfes Creek Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bowen Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wittmann 1SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lovington 2 WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Flagstaff AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ridgley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Barrage Mitis	Canada	Record daily precipitation	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pulosero	Russia	Record daily precipitation	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Proserpine Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mt Hope	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
A Coruna	Spain	Record high minimum temperature	17.0 C (62.6 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Keams Canyon	United States	Record daily precipitation	6.1 mm (0.24 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
San Francisco Dwtn	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Newnham (Rocherlea)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Price	Canada	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

196 records

Records set or tied on 12 May 1965 by type: Highest daily maximum 36, Lowest daily maximum 19, Highest daily minimum 29, Lowest daily minimum 13, Heaviest daily rainfall 96, Heaviest daily snowfall 1, Deepest snow cover 2.

Records on 12 May 1965 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	36
Lowest daily maximum	19
Highest daily minimum	29
Lowest daily minimum	13
Heaviest daily rainfall	96
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	2

Records on 12 May 1965 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 3, daily 192.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

158 broken records

Margins by which the 158 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 300.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

12 May 1965

Top 20 records on 12 May 1965 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
12 May 1965	Inukjuak Ua, CA	monthly snowfall	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	6.8 cm (2.7 in)	26 years	61 of 100 (Major)
12 May 1965	Abbott 1 SE, US	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	36 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
12 May 1965	Coleman, US	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	60 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
12 May 1965	Rotan, US	all-time rain	123.2 mm (4.9 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	38 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
12 May 1965	Bucuresti Filaret, RO	daily rain	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	18.7 mm (0.7 in)	24 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
12 May 1965	Hamlin 1SW, US	daily rain	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	47.3 mm (1.9 in)	18 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
12 May 1965	Breckenridge, US	daily rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	29.3 mm (1.2 in)	36 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
12 May 1965	Durham, GB	daily high max	25.0 C (77.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	73 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Nuwara Eliya, LK	daily high max	26.1 C (79.0 F)	0.7 C (1.3 F)	72 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Buxton, GB	daily high max	23.3 C (73.9 F)	1.0 C (1.8 F)	71 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Sagar Island, IN	daily rain	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	13.8 mm (0.5 in)	60 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Lisboa Geofisica, PT	daily high max	33.6 C (92.5 F)	2.4 C (4.3 F)	60 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Kizljar, RU	daily rain	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	13.8 mm (0.5 in)	0 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Ft Davis, US	daily rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	14 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Babuskin, RU	daily low min	-5.0 C (23.0 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	66 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Lisboa Geofisica, PT	daily high min	17.7 C (63.9 F)	0.7 C (1.3 F)	60 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Brackettville, US	daily low max	23.9 C (75.0 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	60 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Putnam, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	26 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Yemassee 1 N, US	daily high min	22.2 C (72.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	52 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
12 May 1965	Brocken, DE	daily snow depth	60.0 cm (23.6 in)	30.0 cm (11.8 in)	12 years	23 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 1965

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1814 to 1965. 1965 had 196 records.

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

Records on 05-12 in each year
Year	Records
1814	2
1823	1
1825	1
1827	1
1834	1
1837	1
1838	1
1845	1
1847	1
1848	1
1849	2
1851	1
1855	2
1860	2
1862	2
1863	1
1867	1
1868	1
1872	2
1874	1
1877	1
1878	1
1879	1
1881	4
1882	5
1884	3
1885	2
1886	3
1887	1
1888	1
1889	1
1890	1
1891	4
1894	1
1895	1
1896	1
1897	7
1898	3
1900	3
1901	6
1902	5
1903	7
1904	11
1905	10
1906	20
1907	53
1908	12
1909	4
1910	9
1911	37
1912	46
1913	6
1914	36
1915	50
1916	42
1917	54
1918	113
1919	42
1920	19
1921	64
1922	43
1923	109
1924	245
1925	275
1926	121
1927	167
1928	192
1929	172
1930	500
1931	350
1932	199
1933	476
1934	293
1935	404
1936	329
1937	214
1938	394
1939	233
1940	440
1941	568
1942	418
1943	803
1944	368
1945	389
1946	653
1947	286
1948	390
1949	414
1950	283
1951	427
1952	711
1953	891
1954	305
1955	265
1956	1,568
1957	454
1958	714
1959	740
1960	1,583
1961	381
1962	713
1963	777
1964	401
1965	196
1966	909
1967	810
1968	890
1969	506
1970	698
1971	668
1972	641
1973	393
1974	702
1975	418
1976	541
1977	855
1978	802
1979	763
1980	684
1981	855
1982	763
1983	1,281
1984	887
1985	1,199
1986	473
1987	1,295
1988	619
1989	856
1990	617
1991	1,177
1992	1,022
1993	1,208
1994	738
1995	1,190
1996	1,420
1997	921
1998	1,576
1999	881
2000	1,486
2001	1,015
2002	1,027
2003	861
2004	1,054
2005	1,369
2006	797
2007	630
2008	858
2009	687
2010	1,250
2011	1,119
2012	660
2013	689
2014	949
2015	958
2016	421
2017	529
2018	819
2019	784
2020	1,338
2021	712
2022	1,930
2023	429
2024	447
2025	940
2026	1,110

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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).

Margin	Records
0 to 50	155
50 to 100	1
100 to 150	1
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	1