Weather Records on 19 May 2024

469 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 19 May 2024. Highest significance: Culbertson, US.

Key Facts for 19 May 2024

On 19 May 2024, 469 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
297 were record highs and 96 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 14 monthly and 455 daily.
Culbertson set a daily record precipitation of 81.3 mm (3.2 in) on 19 May 2024.
Across 161 earlier years (1798 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 461 records.

Record Map

469 stations

469 station records on 19 May 2024 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 19 May 2024: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Culbertson	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Marion	United States	Record daily precipitation	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Goychay	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Waialae-Kahala 715	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Lankaran	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Mc Cook	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
St Anthonis	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Nanning	China	Record daily precipitation	157.7 mm (6.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Gyshgy	Turkmenistan	Record low maximum temperature	16.4 C (61.5 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Lauderdale	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Mersa Matruh	Egypt	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Leo	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Moore Haven Lock 1	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Nijmegen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Pennington Gap	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lakeland Linder Rgnl AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tubbergen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Inverness 3 SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Tifton	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Chester 1 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Lamoni	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kalianget (Madura Is)	Indonesia	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Jagdalpur	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Coimbatore/Peelamed	India	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kem-Port	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	24.6 C (76.3 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Wauchula	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Thiruvananthapuram	India	Record daily precipitation	120.9 mm (4.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Soderarm	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	10.7 C (51.3 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Hat Yai	Thailand	Record low minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bonalbo Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Woolners Arm	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Hoburg	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	11.2 C (52.2 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Waterville 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Newcastle Nobbys Signal Statio	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.8 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Yangon Intl	Burma	Record high minimum temperature	27.5 C (81.5 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Faerder Fyr	Norway	Record high minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Mayo	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Norderney	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	14.5 C (58.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
San Juan L M Marin Intl AP	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Karshi	Uzbekistan	Record low maximum temperature	16.8 C (62.2 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Shijiazhuang	China	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Isparta	Turkey	Record high minimum temperature	16.4 C (61.5 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Guanghua	China	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mashhad	Iran	Record low maximum temperature	14.5 C (58.1 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Eggegrund	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	23.6 C (74.5 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Lewiston	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Yuncheng	China	Record high maximum temperature	37.4 C (99.3 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Arhara	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-3.0 C (26.6 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Lidkoping	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	24.7 C (76.5 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	Record low maximum temperature	21.2 C (70.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Saragt	Turkmenistan	Record low maximum temperature	20.5 C (68.9 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Glenwood	United States	Record low minimum temperature	0.6 C (33.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Manhattan ASOS	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Broken Hill Airport AWS	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	1.0 C (33.8 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Miyako	Japan	Record high maximum temperature	29.7 C (85.5 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Geneva #2	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
UNIV of Hawaii 713	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Xuzhou	China	Record high maximum temperature	35.4 C (95.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Boxian	China	Record high maximum temperature	35.3 C (95.5 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Cuxhaven	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

469 records

Records set or tied on 19 May 2024 by type: Highest daily maximum 141, Lowest daily maximum 39, Highest daily minimum 156, Lowest daily minimum 57, Heaviest daily rainfall 75, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 19 May 2024 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	141
Lowest daily maximum	39
Highest daily minimum	156
Lowest daily minimum	57
Heaviest daily rainfall	75
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 19 May 2024 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 14, daily 455.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

379 broken records

Margins by which the 379 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 93.7. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

19 May 2024

Top 20 records on 19 May 2024 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
19 May 2024	Culbertson, US	daily rain	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	83 years	73 of 100 (Major)
19 May 2024	Marion, US	daily rain	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	96 years	68 of 100 (Major)
19 May 2024	Goychay, AZ	daily rain	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	93.7 mm (3.7 in)	55 years	64 of 100 (Major)
19 May 2024	Waialae-Kahala 715, US	daily rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	57 years	64 of 100 (Major)
19 May 2024	Lankaran, AZ	daily rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	22.7 mm (0.9 in)	120 years	61 of 100 (Major)
19 May 2024	Mc Cook, US	daily rain	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	9.2 mm (0.36 in)	109 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	St Anthonis, NL	daily rain	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	11.5 mm (0.5 in)	64 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Nanning, CN	monthly rain	157.7 mm (6.2 in)	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	23 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Gyshgy, TM	daily low max	16.4 C (61.5 F)	2.1 C (3.8 F)	108 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Ft Lauderdale, US	daily high min	26.7 C (80.1 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	94 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Mersa Matruh, EG	daily high min	24.4 C (75.9 F)	1.4 C (2.5 F)	90 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Saint Leo, US	daily high min	24.4 C (75.9 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	94 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Moore Haven Lock 1, US	daily high max	36.1 C (97.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	89 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Nijmegen, NL	daily rain	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	7.2 mm (0.28 in)	64 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Pennington Gap, US	daily rain	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	11 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Lakeland Linder Rgnl AP, US	monthly high min	25.6 C (78.1 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	70 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Tubbergen, NL	daily rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	2 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Inverness 3 SE, US	daily high min	23.3 C (73.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	94 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Tifton, US	daily rain	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	0.2 mm (0.01 in)	99 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
19 May 2024	Chester 1 SE, US	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	55 years	39 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

1798 to 2024

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 2024. 2024 had 469 records.

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

Records on 05-19 in each year
Year	Records
1798	1
1802	1
1803	1
1811	1
1825	1
1826	1
1843	1
1845	1
1847	1
1848	1
1861	2
1864	1
1866	2
1868	2
1870	2
1872	2
1873	1
1877	4
1878	1
1879	1
1880	4
1881	2
1885	3
1886	1
1888	4
1890	2
1891	1
1892	1
1893	1
1894	3
1895	1
1896	3
1897	3
1898	1
1899	3
1900	16
1901	5
1902	6
1903	12
1904	5
1905	3
1906	22
1907	23
1908	11
1909	4
1910	34
1911	69
1912	11
1913	20
1914	37
1915	56
1916	44
1917	21
1918	64
1919	42
1920	28
1921	171
1922	48
1923	75
1924	179
1925	258
1926	102
1927	154
1928	118
1929	373
1930	277
1931	268
1932	758
1933	517
1934	476
1935	270
1936	144
1937	295
1938	432
1939	216
1940	306
1941	352
1942	463
1943	852
1944	453
1945	443
1946	329
1947	263
1948	605
1949	950
1950	487
1951	422
1952	568
1953	690
1954	642
1955	560
1956	605
1957	836
1958	369
1959	487
1960	708
1961	273
1962	1,092
1963	542
1964	358
1965	231
1966	483
1967	514
1968	735
1969	912
1970	415
1971	772
1972	478
1973	676
1974	734
1975	616
1976	1,238
1977	726
1978	1,215
1979	516
1980	401
1981	1,264
1982	464
1983	1,014
1984	597
1985	386
1986	1,022
1987	876
1988	726
1989	694
1990	600
1991	1,020
1992	1,017
1993	934
1994	883
1995	1,175
1996	2,038
1997	1,074
1998	1,237
1999	682
2000	1,055
2001	779
2002	2,461
2003	1,523
2004	788
2005	834
2006	1,276
2007	725
2008	950
2009	1,577
2010	959
2011	1,257
2012	509
2013	841
2014	560
2015	1,080
2016	634
2017	1,547
2018	468
2019	1,239
2020	790
2021	579
2022	1,147
2023	709
2024	469
2025	764
2026	1,358

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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).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	369
20 to 40	6
40 to 60	3
60 to 80	0
80 to 100	1