Weather Records on 21 April 2014

393 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 21 April 2014. Highest significance: Plainville 4WNW, US.

Key Facts for 21 April 2014

On 21 April 2014, 393 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
246 were record highs and 72 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 6 monthly and 386 daily.
Plainville 4WNW set a daily record precipitation of 40.6 mm (1.6 in) on 21 April 2014.
Across 159 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 463 records.

Record Map

393 stations

393 station records on 21 April 2014 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 21 April 2014: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Plainville 4WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Heathrow	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	26.8 mm (1.1 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Ponce 4 E	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Mason City	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Eastman 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.1 mm (3.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Grace	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Waddington	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	28.1 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Karlstad	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	19.3 C (66.7 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Valdosta 2 S	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
E Lawai 934	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Cairo 1SW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Misurata	Libya	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Gilead 4 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Krivoj_Rog	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Walthill 1E	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gauhati	India	Record high maximum temperature	40.1 C (104.2 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Irako	Japan	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Eufaula Wildlife Ref	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Minatare Dam (Usbr)	United States	Record high minimum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz	Saudi Arabia	Record high maximum temperature	43.6 C (110.5 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Wittmann 1SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Moultrie 2 ESE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Fredonia	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Wolf Pt	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Podor	Senegal	Record high minimum temperature	28.5 C (83.3 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Tiree	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	19.0 C (66.2 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Niceville	United States	Record low maximum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Duncan 10 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Faerder Fyr	Norway	Record high maximum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Oksoey Fyr	Norway	Record high maximum temperature	15.5 C (59.9 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bogucany	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	5.2 C (41.4 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Voronez	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	26.8 C (80.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bridgeport	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Strawn 8 NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Willow Rsvr	United States	Record snow depth	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Majuro Wbas AP	Marshall Islands	Record low maximum temperature	27.7 C (81.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Tiksi	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-1.3 C (29.7 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Vitim	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	2.9 C (37.2 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Utklippan	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	7.3 C (45.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Lulea-Bergnaset	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	1.6 C (34.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Maksimovo	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	1.1 C (34.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Vinga	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	8.7 C (47.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Colquitt 2 W	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Healdton 3 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Klaipeda	Lithuania	Record high maximum temperature	25.1 C (77.2 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Smolensk	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	10.2 C (50.4 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Moron de la Frontera	Spain	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Wewahitchka	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Gladstone L/D 18	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Baltijsk	Belarus	Record high minimum temperature	12.9 C (55.2 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Huili	China	Record high maximum temperature	31.5 C (88.7 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Kaliningrad	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	12.1 C (53.8 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Duncan	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
N Is NAS	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Tengchong	China	Record high maximum temperature	28.6 C (83.5 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Koebenhavn: Landbohojskolen-1	Denmark	Record high minimum temperature	10.5 C (50.9 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Pueblo Mem AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Zheleznodorozhnyj	Belarus	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Sarh	Chad	Record low minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Jiulong	China	Record high maximum temperature	25.8 C (78.4 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

393 records

Records set or tied on 21 April 2014 by type: Highest daily maximum 110, Lowest daily maximum 48, Highest daily minimum 136, Lowest daily minimum 24, Heaviest daily rainfall 71, Deepest snow cover 4.

Records on 21 April 2014 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	110
Lowest daily maximum	48
Highest daily minimum	136
Lowest daily minimum	24
Heaviest daily rainfall	71
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	4

Records on 21 April 2014 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 6, daily 386.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

334 broken records

Margins by which the 334 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 76.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

21 April 2014

Top 20 records on 21 April 2014 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
21 April 2014	Plainville 4WNW, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	80 years	63 of 100 (Major)
21 April 2014	Heathrow, GB	daily rain	26.8 mm (1.1 in)	21.2 mm (0.8 in)	40 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Ponce 4 E, PR	daily low min	12.2 C (54.0 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	76 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Mason City, US	daily rain	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	101 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Eastman 1 W, US	daily rain	88.1 mm (3.5 in)	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	101 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Grace, US	daily high min	10.0 C (50.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	105 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Waddington, GB	daily rain	28.1 mm (1.1 in)	15.1 mm (0.6 in)	44 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Karlstad, SE	daily high max	19.3 C (66.7 F)	1.3 C (2.3 F)	100 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Valdosta 2 S, US	daily low max	16.1 C (61.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	107 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	E Lawai 934, US	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	41 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Cairo 1SW, US	daily low max	15.6 C (60.1 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	80 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Misurata, LY	daily high max	37.8 C (100.0 F)	2.9 C (5.2 F)	80 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Mt Gilead 4 W, US	daily rain	37.6 mm (1.5 in)	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	79 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Krivoj_Rog, UA	monthly rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	1.1 mm (0.04 in)	63 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Walthill 1E, US	daily high min	13.3 C (55.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	88 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Gauhati, IN	all-time high max	40.1 C (104.2 F)	0.7 C (1.3 F)	22 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Irako, JP	daily rain	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	40 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
21 April 2014	Eufaula Wildlife Ref, US	daily rain	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	32 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
21 April 2014	Minatare Dam (Usbr), US	daily high min	7.8 C (46.0 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	81 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
21 April 2014	King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, SA	monthly high max	43.6 C (110.5 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	29 years	33 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

1793 to 2014

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 2014. 2014 had 393 records.

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

Records on 04-21 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1814	1
1820	1
1838	1
1849	2
1851	1
1852	3
1854	1
1858	3
1861	2
1865	3
1866	1
1868	1
1870	1
1875	4
1876	2
1877	1
1879	3
1880	1
1881	1
1882	1
1884	1
1885	2
1888	1
1890	1
1891	1
1892	1
1893	2
1894	4
1895	1
1897	1
1898	2
1899	2
1900	7
1901	17
1902	7
1903	3
1904	10
1905	18
1906	5
1907	17
1908	25
1909	20
1910	33
1911	9
1912	22
1913	14
1914	220
1915	24
1916	64
1917	48
1918	84
1919	31
1920	85
1921	59
1922	70
1923	223
1924	119
1925	295
1926	148
1927	284
1928	269
1929	193
1930	127
1931	358
1932	304
1933	201
1934	497
1935	266
1936	277
1937	416
1938	295
1939	110
1940	462
1941	306
1942	285
1943	481
1944	261
1945	367
1946	448
1947	459
1948	365
1949	448
1950	529
1951	884
1952	665
1953	640
1954	527
1955	607
1956	497
1957	824
1958	329
1959	505
1960	889
1961	647
1962	319
1963	778
1964	1,125
1965	658
1966	756
1967	903
1968	655
1969	388
1970	728
1971	546
1972	593
1973	1,163
1974	528
1975	360
1976	452
1977	854
1978	735
1979	449
1980	1,934
1981	944
1982	1,075
1983	1,366
1984	1,231
1985	1,245
1986	977
1987	1,290
1988	898
1989	1,557
1990	1,463
1991	1,291
1992	1,763
1993	847
1994	859
1995	1,476
1996	788
1997	964
1998	876
1999	752
2000	921
2001	967
2002	1,312
2003	607
2004	586
2005	693
2006	761
2007	480
2008	1,327
2009	983
2010	805
2011	1,053
2012	687
2013	1,015
2014	393
2015	621
2016	587
2017	797
2018	862
2019	731
2020	397
2021	1,608
2022	433
2023	886
2024	754
2025	506
2026	853

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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 2026-10-13 (13 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 10	314
10 to 20	9
20 to 30	8
30 to 40	1
40 to 50	0
50 to 60	1
60 to 70	0
70 to 80	1