Weather Records on 5 August 2012

869 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 August 2012. Highest significance: Carbondale Sewage Plt, US.

Key Facts for 5 August 2012

On 5 August 2012, 869 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
553 were record highs and 160 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 5 were all-time records, 28 monthly and 836 daily.
Carbondale Sewage Plt set a daily record precipitation of 125.7 mm (4.9 in) on 5 August 2012.
Across 164 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 441 records.

Record Map

869 stations

869 station records on 5 August 2012 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 August 2012: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Carbondale Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	125.7 mm (4.9 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Covington	United States	Record daily precipitation	112.0 mm (4.4 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Elizabethton	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.9 mm (4.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Ionia 2SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Lima Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Lajas Substn	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low maximum temperature	30.0 C (86.0 F)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Penuelas 1 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	137.4 mm (5.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Boyne Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Schmelz-Huttersdorf	Germany	Record daily precipitation	29.9 mm (1.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Greensburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Bidwell	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ensenada 1 W	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Perevoz	Russia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Hoopeston	United States	Record daily precipitation	90.9 mm (3.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Hyrynsalmi Moisiovaara	Finland	Record daily precipitation	44.1 mm (1.7 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Ponce 4 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Houston	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Beaver City	United States	Record low minimum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Atlatlahuacan	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Olga 2 SE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ola	United States	Record high maximum temperature	39.4 C (102.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Neosho	United States	Record high maximum temperature	40.6 C (105.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Brownsville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ashland	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Aberdeen	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Forks 1 E	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
St-Girons	France	Record daily precipitation	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Barguzin	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.2 C (64.8 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Springer	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Elm Springs 3 ESE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Linguere	Senegal	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Carthage	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Lockwood	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Defiance	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Pleasant Hill	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Stiege	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Alponocan	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Berne Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Parsons 2 NW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	43.9 C (111.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Anacortes	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.0 C (86.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Savusavu Airfield	Fiji	Record daily precipitation	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bely Island	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	9.7 C (49.5 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bradford	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	38.2 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Dos Bocas	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Epen (L)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Ross	United States	Record low minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Waterville 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Bellefontaine	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Corvallis State UNIV	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pavillion	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Nevada Wtp	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.7 C (107.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Honeyman Sp	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Copainala	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Corral Viejo	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Borzja	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Haigler	United States	Record low minimum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Quemado	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kingston	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Clarksville Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

869 records

Records set or tied on 5 August 2012 by type: Highest daily maximum 268, Lowest daily maximum 55, Highest daily minimum 285, Lowest daily minimum 105, Heaviest daily rainfall 156.

Records on 5 August 2012 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	268
Lowest daily maximum	55
Highest daily minimum	285
Lowest daily minimum	105
Heaviest daily rainfall	156
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 5 August 2012 by timescale: all-time 5, monthly 28, daily 836.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

587 broken records

Margins by which the 587 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 122.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 August 2012

Top 20 records on 5 August 2012 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 August 2012	Carbondale Sewage Plt, US	daily rain	125.7 mm (4.9 in)	84.6 mm (3.3 in)	89 years	76 of 100 (Major)
5 August 2012	Covington, US	daily rain	112.0 mm (4.4 in)	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	48 years	64 of 100 (Major)
5 August 2012	Elizabethton, US	all-time rain	102.9 mm (4.1 in)	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	72 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Ionia 2SSW, US	daily rain	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	67 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Lima Wwtp, US	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	58 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Lajas Substn, PR	daily low max	30.0 C (86.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	112 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Penuelas 1 E, PR	daily rain	137.4 mm (5.4 in)	122.4 mm (4.8 in)	22 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Boyne Falls, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	33.7 mm (1.3 in)	46 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Schmelz-Huttersdorf, DE	daily rain	29.9 mm (1.2 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	44 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Greensburg, US	daily rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	109 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Ft Bidwell, US	daily high min	20.6 C (69.1 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	141 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Ensenada 1 W, PR	daily rain	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	48 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Perevoz, RU	daily rain	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	14.3 mm (0.6 in)	61 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Hoopeston, US	daily rain	90.9 mm (3.6 in)	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	27 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Hyrynsalmi Moisiovaara, FI	daily rain	44.1 mm (1.7 in)	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	8 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Ponce 4 E, PR	daily rain	77.2 mm (3.0 in)	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	103 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Houston, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	114 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Beaver City, US	daily low min	8.3 C (46.9 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	116 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Atlatlahuacan, MX	daily low max	20.6 C (69.1 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	86 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
5 August 2012	Olga 2 SE, US	daily high max	29.4 C (84.9 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	85 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

1797 to 2012

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 2012. 2012 had 869 records.

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

Records on 08-05 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1806	2
1809	1
1830	3
1839	1
1841	1
1843	1
1846	1
1847	1
1857	1
1859	1
1860	1
1862	2
1864	1
1865	2
1866	1
1867	1
1868	2
1871	2
1874	2
1876	1
1880	1
1881	3
1882	3
1885	1
1886	1
1887	3
1888	2
1890	1
1891	1
1892	1
1893	3
1894	2
1895	3
1896	3
1897	1
1898	3
1899	11
1900	4
1901	3
1902	6
1903	18
1904	13
1905	22
1906	13
1907	14
1908	25
1909	21
1910	20
1911	16
1912	72
1913	18
1914	22
1915	83
1916	67
1917	40
1918	233
1919	40
1920	81
1921	53
1922	107
1923	180
1924	144
1925	84
1926	113
1927	230
1928	201
1929	243
1930	467
1931	426
1932	228
1933	341
1934	587
1935	422
1936	309
1937	288
1938	420
1939	275
1940	290
1941	443
1942	393
1943	436
1944	520
1945	311
1946	374
1947	710
1948	930
1949	375
1950	681
1951	557
1952	498
1953	1,043
1954	543
1955	640
1956	422
1957	518
1958	503
1959	438
1960	297
1961	823
1962	451
1963	311
1964	610
1965	265
1966	384
1967	347
1968	394
1969	708
1970	468
1971	748
1972	799
1973	983
1974	810
1975	692
1976	721
1977	583
1978	948
1979	561
1980	998
1981	754
1982	776
1983	1,090
1984	789
1985	845
1986	778
1987	1,061
1988	914
1989	915
1990	1,265
1991	828
1992	861
1993	1,145
1994	1,944
1995	1,205
1996	1,029
1997	1,144
1998	1,817
1999	834
2000	704
2001	986
2002	1,160
2003	1,340
2004	848
2005	1,026
2006	932
2007	787
2008	738
2009	777
2010	1,626
2011	1,347
2012	869
2013	436
2014	915
2015	519
2016	544
2017	888
2018	528
2019	533
2020	626
2021	641
2022	1,332
2023	1,087
2024	711
2025	775
2026	1,047

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Data for records on 2012-08-05: 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 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	569
20 to 40	11
40 to 60	3
60 to 80	2
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1