Weather Records on 14 May 1999

817 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 14 May 1999. Highest significance: Danbury, US.

Key Facts for 14 May 1999

On 14 May 1999, 817 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
228 were record highs and 374 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 24 monthly and 791 daily.
Danbury set a monthly record daily precipitation of 101.9 mm (4.0 in) on 14 May 1999.
Across 165 earlier years (1813 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 413 records.

Record Map

817 stations

817 station records on 14 May 1999 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 14 May 1999: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Danbury	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Soldier Summit	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Kooline	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Buckingham	United States	Record daily precipitation	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Horda	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Biskra	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	30.4 C (86.7 F)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Winston Salem Reynolds AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Lima	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Farmville	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ljubljana Bezigrad	Slovenia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Balmoral	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Biskra	Algeria	Record high maximum temperature	42.0 C (107.6 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Winnemucca AP	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-6.7 C (19.9 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Grant 5 SE	United States	Record daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Telluride 4WNW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lawrence	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Woolwine 1 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Highfields	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Zagreb-Gric	Croatia	Record daily precipitation	40.3 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Warren	United States	Record low maximum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Oshkosh	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Osijek	Croatia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Huetamo	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Skara 1	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	6.4 C (43.5 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Afogados da Ingazeira (Dnocs)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lakeview 2 NNW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Byllesby 1 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Siliguri	India	Record daily precipitation	122.9 mm (4.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Malaga Aeropuerto	Spain	Record high minimum temperature	23.8 C (74.8 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Glenville	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Carlos Chagas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	28.8 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Ogallala	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
McDermitt	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-6.7 C (19.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Center 4SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Pope AFB	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Silverton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Glen Florrie Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Blanca 4 NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Norris Madison Pwr House	United States	Record low maximum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cordova AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pianco	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Melilla	Spain	Record high minimum temperature	24.0 C (75.2 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Grant 5 SE	United States	Record snow depth	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Jackson	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Hillsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Weston	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bismarck	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Melilla	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	31.8 C (89.2 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Powhatan	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Salamanca Aeropuerto	Spain	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Es Senia	Algeria	Record high maximum temperature	34.0 C (93.2 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Torrevieja	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	31.0 C (87.8 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ennis	United States	Record low maximum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mt Airy 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Eneabba	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.6 mm (1.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Valujki	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-1.2 C (29.8 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Reus/Aeropuerto	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	31.0 C (87.8 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Snowflake	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Yadkinville 6 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

817 records

Records set or tied on 14 May 1999 by type: Highest daily maximum 106, Lowest daily maximum 168, Highest daily minimum 122, Lowest daily minimum 206, Heaviest daily rainfall 192, Heaviest daily snowfall 10, Deepest snow cover 13.

Records on 14 May 1999 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	106
Lowest daily maximum	168
Highest daily minimum	122
Lowest daily minimum	206
Heaviest daily rainfall	192
Heaviest daily snowfall	10
Deepest snow cover	13

Records on 14 May 1999 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 24, daily 791.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

629 broken records

Margins by which the 629 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 584.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

14 May 1999

Top 20 records on 14 May 1999 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
14 May 1999	Danbury, US	monthly rain	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	35.4 mm (1.4 in)	51 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Soldier Summit, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	103 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Kooline, AU	daily rain	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	59.4 mm (2.3 in)	40 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Buckingham, US	daily rain	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	63.7 mm (2.5 in)	20 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Horda, SE	daily rain	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	22.0 mm (0.9 in)	29 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Biskra, DZ	daily high min	30.4 C (86.7 F)	5.4 C (9.7 F)	90 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Winston Salem Reynolds AP, US	monthly rain	92.7 mm (3.6 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	56 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Lima, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	99 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Farmville, US	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	61 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Ljubljana Bezigrad, SI	daily rain	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	18.4 mm (0.7 in)	65 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Balmoral, AU	daily rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	76 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Biskra, DZ	daily high max	42.0 C (107.6 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	76 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Winnemucca AP, US	daily low min	-6.7 C (19.9 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	118 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Grant 5 SE, US	daily snowfall	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	69 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Telluride 4WNW, US	daily high min	7.8 C (46.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	84 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Lawrence, US	daily low min	-0.6 C (30.9 F)	1.2 C (2.2 F)	103 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Woolwine 1 SE, US	daily rain	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	26 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Highfields, AU	daily rain	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	12 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Zagreb-Gric, HR	daily rain	40.3 mm (1.6 in)	6.5 mm (0.26 in)	80 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
14 May 1999	Warren, US	daily low max	3.9 C (39.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	102 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

1813 to 1999

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1813 to 1999. 1999 had 817 records.

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

Records on 05-14 in each year
Year	Records
1813	1
1814	1
1815	1
1816	1
1820	1
1833	1
1837	1
1844	1
1846	1
1848	2
1849	1
1854	1
1855	2
1861	1
1862	1
1864	1
1866	1
1870	1
1873	1
1874	1
1875	2
1876	1
1878	2
1879	4
1881	1
1882	1
1883	3
1884	1
1885	4
1886	1
1890	3
1891	1
1892	1
1893	1
1895	3
1896	4
1897	6
1898	3
1899	2
1900	13
1901	4
1902	7
1903	7
1904	11
1905	4
1906	15
1907	17
1908	39
1909	44
1910	22
1911	15
1912	19
1913	125
1914	24
1915	196
1916	50
1917	79
1918	42
1919	29
1920	52
1921	61
1922	67
1923	94
1924	117
1925	59
1926	73
1927	173
1928	189
1929	176
1930	166
1931	733
1932	367
1933	653
1934	175
1935	255
1936	342
1937	432
1938	310
1939	323
1940	324
1941	569
1942	398
1943	543
1944	368
1945	665
1946	308
1947	282
1948	326
1949	302
1950	170
1951	444
1952	302
1953	730
1954	416
1955	600
1956	683
1957	580
1958	534
1959	501
1960	617
1961	627
1962	948
1963	422
1964	468
1965	313
1966	348
1967	715
1968	1,052
1969	638
1970	553
1971	562
1972	546
1973	802
1974	915
1975	386
1976	593
1977	1,109
1978	926
1979	481
1980	496
1981	494
1982	668
1983	1,176
1984	1,084
1985	915
1986	776
1987	1,145
1988	540
1989	521
1990	594
1991	1,181
1992	740
1993	989
1994	830
1995	2,263
1996	1,869
1997	887
1998	1,375
1999	817
2000	872
2001	1,197
2002	963
2003	959
2004	1,501
2005	748
2006	707
2007	957
2008	778
2009	693
2010	1,092
2011	888
2012	819
2013	1,218
2014	1,038
2015	559
2016	635
2017	393
2018	1,113
2019	483
2020	514
2021	404
2022	924
2023	591
2024	558
2025	785
2026	525

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Data for records on 1999-05-14: 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 100	623
100 to 200	5
200 to 300	0
300 to 400	0
400 to 500	0
500 to 600	1