Weather Records on 5 January 2000

786 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 January 2000. Highest significance: Swansea Post Office, AU.

Key Facts for 5 January 2000

On 5 January 2000, 786 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
272 were record highs and 284 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 22 monthly and 760 daily.
Swansea Post Office set a daily record precipitation of 93.2 mm (3.7 in) on 5 January 2000.
Across 164 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 493 records.

Record Map

786 stations

786 station records on 5 January 2000 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 January 2000: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Swansea Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	93.2 mm (3.7 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Cranbrook (Cranbrook House)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	85.0 mm (3.3 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Red Lake Indian Agcy	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Little Swanport (Lisdillon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.2 mm (2.8 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Swansea (Kelvedon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Palenque (Dge)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	142.0 mm (5.6 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Tenosique (Smn)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	83.1 mm (3.3 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
St Helens Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.2 mm (2.7 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Kellevie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.2 mm (2.8 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Nuuk	Greenland [Denmark]	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Coles Bay (Freycinet)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	96.0 mm (3.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Rumney (Mount Rumney Roa	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Gray (Craigie-Lea)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	168.2 mm (6.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Swan Island Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Falmouth (Glencoe)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	100.0 mm (3.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Taunton	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Penn Yan	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Canton 4 SE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Spencer 1 N	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Dutch Harbor	United States	Record daily snowfall	47.0 cm (18.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Selinsgrove 2 S	United States	Record high maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Kingston	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Bamboo Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	58.0 mm (2.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Philippi	United States	Record high maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Molong (King St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Levendale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.4 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tarboro 1 S	United States	Record high maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Apslawn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	86.0 mm (3.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Rushy Lagoon (Cape Portland Ro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Copping	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Snake Rvr	United States	Record daily snowfall	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
St Marys (Clive Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	158.6 mm (6.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Orford South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Cold Bay AP	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.0 cm (6.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Wellsboro 4 SW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
St Marys (Cullenswood)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	92.4 mm (3.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Fingal (Legge Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.0 mm (2.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lewis Hill (St Pauls River)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	77.6 mm (3.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
McPherson	United States	Record snow depth	27.9 cm (11.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Paul Is AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-16.7 C (1.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Moorina (Frome Dam)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.6 mm (1.9 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Jajome Alto	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Bomnak	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-13.6 C (7.5 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Clewiston	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Annapolis Police Brks	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hobart Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Villa Purificacion (Dge)	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	38.9 C (102.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
El Zapote	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Soljanka	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-35.5 C (-31.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bolsoy Santar	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-6.4 C (20.5 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Benton Harbor AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Shaoguan	China	Record high minimum temperature	18.8 C (65.8 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Olenja Rechka	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-35.7 C (-32.3 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Three Rivers	United States	Record daily snowfall	8.9 cm (3.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Santiago Zautla (Cfe)	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bridgehampton	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Dutch Harbor	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Yarrie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Camboon Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ravensdale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

786 records

Records set or tied on 5 January 2000 by type: Highest daily maximum 195, Lowest daily maximum 119, Highest daily minimum 77, Lowest daily minimum 165, Heaviest daily rainfall 196, Heaviest daily snowfall 28, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 5 January 2000 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	195
Lowest daily maximum	119
Highest daily minimum	77
Lowest daily minimum	165
Heaviest daily rainfall	196
Heaviest daily snowfall	28
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 5 January 2000 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 22, daily 760.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

628 broken records

Margins by which the 628 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 114.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 January 2000

Top 20 records on 5 January 2000 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 January 2000	Swansea Post Office, AU	daily rain	93.2 mm (3.7 in)	55.6 mm (2.2 in)	56 years	66 of 100 (Major)
5 January 2000	Cranbrook (Cranbrook House), AU	daily rain	85.0 mm (3.3 in)	55.3 mm (2.2 in)	56 years	65 of 100 (Major)
5 January 2000	Red Lake Indian Agcy, US	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	50 years	65 of 100 (Major)
5 January 2000	Little Swanport (Lisdillon), AU	daily rain	72.2 mm (2.8 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	56 years	64 of 100 (Major)
5 January 2000	Swansea (Kelvedon), AU	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	56 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Palenque (Dge), MX	daily rain	142.0 mm (5.6 in)	103.9 mm (4.1 in)	40 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Tenosique (Smn), MX	daily rain	83.1 mm (3.3 in)	62.3 mm (2.5 in)	34 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	St Helens Post Office, AU	daily rain	69.2 mm (2.7 in)	34.9 mm (1.4 in)	56 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Kellevie, AU	daily rain	72.2 mm (2.8 in)	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	10 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Nuuk, GL	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Coles Bay (Freycinet), AU	daily rain	96.0 mm (3.8 in)	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	12 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Mount Rumney (Mount Rumney Roa, AU	daily rain	54.0 mm (2.1 in)	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	10 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Gray (Craigie-Lea), AU	daily rain	168.2 mm (6.6 in)	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	12 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Swan Island Lighthouse, AU	daily rain	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	64 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Falmouth (Glencoe), AU	daily rain	100.0 mm (3.9 in)	68.4 mm (2.7 in)	8 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Taunton, US	daily rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	102 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Penn Yan, US	daily high max	15.6 C (60.1 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	100 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Canton 4 SE, US	daily high max	15.6 C (60.1 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	100 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Spencer 1 N, US	daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	5.1 cm (2.0 in)	70 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
5 January 2000	Dutch Harbor, US	monthly snowfall	47.0 cm (18.5 in)	11.4 cm (4.5 in)	6 years	43 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 2000

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 2000. 2000 had 786 records.

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

Records on 01-05 in each year
Year	Records
1795	2
1803	2
1838	1
1850	1
1853	1
1855	2
1857	1
1860	2
1861	2
1862	1
1863	1
1864	3
1869	2
1870	1
1871	1
1872	2
1873	5
1874	1
1875	1
1878	1
1879	1
1881	1
1882	1
1883	2
1884	2
1886	3
1887	1
1888	2
1889	4
1890	2
1891	5
1892	5
1894	10
1895	7
1896	2
1897	2
1898	5
1899	9
1900	4
1901	6
1902	14
1903	9
1904	24
1905	9
1906	15
1907	7
1908	12
1909	52
1910	21
1911	27
1912	54
1913	19
1914	34
1915	21
1916	95
1917	59
1918	41
1919	53
1920	122
1921	87
1922	160
1923	97
1924	408
1925	110
1926	328
1927	417
1928	112
1929	308
1930	203
1931	176
1932	370
1933	241
1934	294
1935	755
1936	280
1937	238
1938	200
1939	736
1940	654
1941	276
1942	828
1943	355
1944	274
1945	571
1946	1,218
1947	496
1948	537
1949	948
1950	1,400
1951	200
1952	345
1953	291
1954	389
1955	770
1956	699
1957	276
1958	506
1959	1,043
1960	463
1961	305
1962	359
1963	340
1964	191
1965	488
1966	607
1967	545
1968	1,037
1969	844
1970	463
1971	1,355
1972	695
1973	566
1974	986
1975	338
1976	744
1977	613
1978	672
1979	1,781
1980	997
1981	1,136
1982	1,787
1983	929
1984	1,163
1985	970
1986	856
1987	1,031
1988	1,389
1989	1,463
1990	471
1991	1,409
1992	1,001
1993	1,604
1994	1,481
1995	956
1996	1,084
1997	2,254
1998	1,426
1999	2,443
2000	786
2001	1,251
2002	833
2003	760
2004	1,731
2005	1,947
2006	813
2007	1,844
2008	1,114
2009	671
2010	1,386
2011	620
2012	1,307
2013	501
2014	746
2015	652
2016	516
2017	1,053
2018	1,075
2019	422
2020	395
2021	366
2022	700
2023	683
2024	458
2025	607
2026	736

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Data for records on 2000-01-05: 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 2026-10-14 (14 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	579
20 to 40	27
40 to 60	11
60 to 80	8
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	3