Weather Records on 24 May 1988

689 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 24 May 1988. Highest significance: Welshpool, AU.

Key Facts for 24 May 1988

On 24 May 1988, 689 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
274 were record highs and 135 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 10 monthly and 678 daily.
Welshpool set a daily record precipitation of 64.6 mm (2.5 in) on 24 May 1988.
Across 161 earlier years (1794 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 453 records.

Record Map

689 stations

689 station records on 24 May 1988 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 24 May 1988: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Welshpool	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Lady Barron (Franklin Parade)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Giffard	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Yarram	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.0 mm (2.2 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Toora	Australia	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Woodside (Lake View)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Slavjansk-Na-Kubani	Russia	Record daily precipitation	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Lobethal	Australia	Record daily precipitation	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Gurnang State Forest (Oberon Y	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.0 mm (2.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Yackandandah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Best (Upper Toora)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.4 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Aldeinha	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Pedro Beicht	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gladstone (Old Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Tomazina	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Fish Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Usina Turvinho	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Agnes River	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Eureka	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Wooragee	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Camden 1	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Ganca	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Des Arc	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Shelbina	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Tarwin Lower (Riverside)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Caucaia Do Alto	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Nhill (Woorak)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Evangelista de Souza	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	63.3 mm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Tapirai	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	54.5 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Ashburnham	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mora	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-7.8 C (18.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Williamstown (Glen Gillian)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Freiburg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	14.8 C (58.6 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lenora Coop	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Madison	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello Muni AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Echunga Golf Course	Australia	Record daily precipitation	59.0 mm (2.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Rutherglen Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Rutherglen Research	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Seaspray (Burong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Santo Amaro	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	48.1 mm (1.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Hope 3 NE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Wagga Wagga (Berrillee)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
La Junta	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	0.6 C (33.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Oaklands General Store	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Chiltern (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.2 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Indigo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Observatorio Do Iag	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	52.4 mm (2.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Moab	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Trunkey Creek (Trunkey (Black	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Foster (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Rinconada	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Hillside Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bozeman Montana State UNIV	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.0 C (86.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Corowa Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Wagga Wagga Research Centre	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.8 mm (1.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Brodhead Wwtp	United States	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Galveston	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Bundaleer Forest Reserve	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Barra Do Acungui	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	44.8 mm (1.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

689 records

Records set or tied on 24 May 1988 by type: Highest daily maximum 145, Lowest daily maximum 75, Highest daily minimum 129, Lowest daily minimum 60, Heaviest daily rainfall 280.

Records on 24 May 1988 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	145
Lowest daily maximum	75
Highest daily minimum	129
Lowest daily minimum	60
Heaviest daily rainfall	280
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 24 May 1988 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 10, daily 678.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

530 broken records

Margins by which the 530 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 46.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

24 May 1988

Top 20 records on 24 May 1988 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
24 May 1988	Welshpool, AU	daily rain	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	21.4 mm (0.8 in)	97 years	67 of 100 (Major)
24 May 1988	Lady Barron (Franklin Parade), AU	daily rain	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	65 years	66 of 100 (Major)
24 May 1988	Giffard, AU	daily rain	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	55 years	64 of 100 (Major)
24 May 1988	Yarram, AU	daily rain	56.0 mm (2.2 in)	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	44 years	63 of 100 (Major)
24 May 1988	Toora, AU	daily rain	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	44 years	61 of 100 (Major)
24 May 1988	Woodside (Lake View), AU	daily rain	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	36 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Slavjansk-Na-Kubani, RU	daily rain	50.2 mm (2.0 in)	28.9 mm (1.1 in)	44 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Lobethal, AU	monthly rain	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	2.0 mm (0.08 in)	104 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Gurnang State Forest (Oberon Y, AU	daily rain	71.0 mm (2.8 in)	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	7 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Yackandandah, AU	daily rain	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	18.2 mm (0.7 in)	67 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Mount Best (Upper Toora), AU	daily rain	52.4 mm (2.1 in)	23.2 mm (0.9 in)	44 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Aldeinha, BR	daily rain	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	39.3 mm (1.5 in)	5 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Pedro Beicht, BR	daily rain	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	5 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Gladstone (Old Post Office), AU	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	44 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Tomazina, BR	daily rain	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	38 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Fish Creek, AU	daily rain	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	22.7 mm (0.9 in)	32 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Usina Turvinho, BR	daily rain	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	24.3 mm (1.0 in)	45 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Agnes River, AU	monthly rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	28 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Eureka, US	daily high max	28.9 C (84.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	98 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
24 May 1988	Wooragee, AU	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	26 years	40 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

1794 to 1988

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1794 to 1988. 1988 had 689 records.

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

Records on 05-24 in each year
Year	Records
1794	1
1795	1
1797	1
1817	1
1831	1
1837	2
1838	1
1840	1
1841	2
1844	1
1847	3
1848	1
1864	1
1865	1
1866	5
1867	7
1868	2
1870	1
1877	2
1880	2
1882	2
1884	2
1886	2
1888	1
1889	3
1890	3
1891	4
1892	1
1893	8
1894	1
1895	1
1896	1
1897	5
1898	4
1899	7
1900	5
1901	7
1902	8
1903	9
1904	14
1905	16
1906	36
1907	15
1908	16
1909	16
1910	34
1911	28
1912	41
1913	30
1914	35
1915	8
1916	19
1917	86
1918	27
1919	25
1920	38
1921	139
1922	101
1923	106
1924	334
1925	347
1926	284
1927	221
1928	290
1929	112
1930	173
1931	475
1932	251
1933	477
1934	196
1935	426
1936	432
1937	187
1938	438
1939	498
1940	289
1941	499
1942	245
1943	439
1944	710
1945	226
1946	501
1947	456
1948	250
1949	436
1950	640
1951	881
1952	720
1953	1,005
1954	260
1955	841
1956	1,027
1957	513
1958	825
1959	315
1960	476
1961	301
1962	479
1963	734
1964	852
1965	502
1966	340
1967	904
1968	568
1969	408
1970	329
1971	625
1972	487
1973	533
1974	584
1975	886
1976	411
1977	997
1978	797
1979	1,115
1980	978
1981	758
1982	725
1983	1,332
1984	737
1985	637
1986	573
1987	664
1988	689
1989	1,346
1990	923
1991	1,495
1992	1,562
1993	826
1994	832
1995	1,247
1996	1,367
1997	1,028
1998	931
1999	806
2000	1,549
2001	1,335
2002	1,163
2003	1,011
2004	1,276
2005	967
2006	994
2007	1,349
2008	1,173
2009	970
2010	1,699
2011	1,026
2012	983
2013	861
2014	757
2015	501
2016	408
2017	876
2018	595
2019	750
2020	517
2021	583
2022	709
2023	353
2024	930
2025	542
2026	877

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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 24 May 1988
Margin	Records
0 to 10	433
10 to 20	57
20 to 30	27
30 to 40	10
40 to 50	3