Weather Records on 31 May 1998

1,215 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 31 May 1998. Highest significance: Bad Muskau, DE.

Key Facts for 31 May 1998

On 31 May 1998, 1,215 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
818 were record highs and 143 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 181 monthly and 1,030 daily.
Bad Muskau set a daily record precipitation of 53.1 mm (2.1 in) on 31 May 1998.
Across 161 earlier years (1811 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 433 records.

Record Map

1,215 stations

1,215 station records on 31 May 1998 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 31 May 1998: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bad Muskau	Germany	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	77 of 100 (Major)
Ueckermunde	Germany	Record daily precipitation	72.8 mm (2.9 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Gottingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Eberbach/Neckar	Germany	Record daily precipitation	69.0 mm (2.7 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Yerevan	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	46.8 mm (1.8 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Mainz-Lerchenberg (Zdf)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Greenview	United States	Record daily precipitation	142.2 mm (5.6 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Arnsberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Koln-Stammheim	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Heilbronn	Germany	Record daily precipitation	49.6 mm (2.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Lennestadt-Theten	Germany	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Bad Wildungen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Braganca	Portugal	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Kumeny	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Charleston	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Lebanon 2W	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Koln-Bonn	Germany	Record daily precipitation	49.2 mm (1.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Hilgenroth	Germany	Record daily precipitation	42.0 mm (1.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Vatterode-Grafenstuhl	Germany	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Bad-Ahrweiler Neuenahr	Germany	Record daily precipitation	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Brilon	Germany	Record daily precipitation	46.3 mm (1.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Mozdok	Russia	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Hoopeston	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Salem	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Detour Village	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Graham	United States	Record high maximum temperature	41.7 C (107.1 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Miltenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Schwabisch Hall-Bibersfeld	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.5 mm (1.7 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Naolinco de Victoria	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	101.9 mm (4.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Paris	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Waterford (Tycor)	Ireland	Record daily precipitation	25.2 mm (1.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Eslohe	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Koblenz-Horchheim	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tribsees	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.8 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Pleasant 1 SW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Medford	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Dechanabad	Uzbekistan	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Mayen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Walnut	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
De Ridder	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Monroe 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Oconto 4 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.0 mm (2.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Pforzheim-Eutingen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	47.7 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Coimbra	Portugal	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
McAlester Rgnl AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Rollbach	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Rems-Murr-Kreis Winterbach	Germany	Record daily precipitation	38.2 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Burgwald-Bottendorf	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Albany 3 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Conroe	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Monroe Rgnl AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Washington	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Paola	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.8 C (91.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ulysses 3NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Versailles	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Wichita Falls Muni AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	42.2 C (108.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bowling Green Warren Co AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Twistetal-Muhlhausen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Oktjabrskij-Gorodok	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	16.8 C (62.2 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Stuttgart-Schnarrenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	40.5 mm (1.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,215 records

Records set or tied on 31 May 1998 by type: Highest daily maximum 505, Lowest daily maximum 62, Highest daily minimum 313, Lowest daily minimum 81, Heaviest daily rainfall 252, Deepest snow cover 2.

Records on 31 May 1998 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	505
Lowest daily maximum	62
Highest daily minimum	313
Lowest daily minimum	81
Heaviest daily rainfall	252
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	2

Records on 31 May 1998 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 181, daily 1,030.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

842 broken records

Margins by which the 842 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 787.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

31 May 1998

Top 20 records on 31 May 1998 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
31 May 1998	Bad Muskau, DE	daily rain	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	91 years	77 of 100 (Major)
31 May 1998	Ueckermunde, DE	monthly rain	72.8 mm (2.9 in)	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	33 years	69 of 100 (Major)
31 May 1998	Gottingen, DE	daily rain	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	20.0 mm (0.8 in)	60 years	62 of 100 (Major)
31 May 1998	Eberbach/Neckar, DE	monthly rain	69.0 mm (2.7 in)	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	67 years	61 of 100 (Major)
31 May 1998	Yerevan, AM	monthly rain	46.8 mm (1.8 in)	4.6 mm (0.18 in)	102 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Mainz-Lerchenberg (Zdf), DE	daily rain	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	56 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Greenview, US	monthly rain	142.2 mm (5.6 in)	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	8 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Arnsberg, DE	daily rain	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	23.7 mm (0.9 in)	24 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Koln-Stammheim, DE	daily rain	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	45 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Heilbronn, DE	daily rain	49.6 mm (2.0 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	32 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Lennestadt-Theten, DE	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	53 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Bad Wildungen, DE	daily rain	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	28 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Braganca, PT	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	20.6 mm (0.8 in)	56 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Kumeny, RU	daily rain	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	20.2 mm (0.8 in)	32 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Charleston, US	monthly high min	23.9 C (75.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	102 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Lebanon 2W, US	monthly high min	24.4 C (75.9 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	96 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Koln-Bonn, DE	daily rain	49.2 mm (1.9 in)	22.7 mm (0.9 in)	24 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Hilgenroth, DE	daily rain	42.0 mm (1.7 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	16 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Vatterode-Grafenstuhl, DE	daily rain	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	21 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
31 May 1998	Bad-Ahrweiler Neuenahr, DE	monthly rain	64.6 mm (2.5 in)	11.8 mm (0.5 in)	49 years	50 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

1811 to 1998

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1811 to 1998. 1998 had 1,215 records.

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

Records on 05-31 in each year
Year	Records
1811	1
1818	3
1827	1
1836	2
1845	1
1847	1
1853	2
1855	2
1858	1
1864	2
1865	1
1866	1
1867	1
1868	4
1869	1
1871	2
1873	3
1874	1
1877	1
1878	2
1879	2
1880	3
1882	1
1883	1
1885	1
1888	1
1889	2
1890	1
1892	1
1893	4
1894	2
1895	8
1897	5
1898	7
1899	1
1900	2
1901	9
1902	9
1903	17
1904	19
1905	7
1906	11
1907	20
1908	12
1909	8
1910	26
1911	20
1912	15
1913	83
1914	20
1915	23
1916	23
1917	13
1918	20
1919	44
1920	46
1921	157
1922	49
1923	98
1924	152
1925	226
1926	228
1927	121
1928	67
1929	246
1930	612
1931	223
1932	181
1933	397
1934	782
1935	156
1936	559
1937	462
1938	424
1939	461
1940	383
1941	410
1942	364
1943	552
1944	372
1945	457
1946	380
1947	439
1948	295
1949	303
1950	467
1951	640
1952	374
1953	654
1954	445
1955	534
1956	632
1957	304
1958	429
1959	459
1960	247
1961	472
1962	565
1963	354
1964	1,237
1965	494
1966	601
1967	987
1968	276
1969	555
1970	573
1971	714
1972	1,127
1973	418
1974	473
1975	797
1976	435
1977	605
1978	873
1979	915
1980	517
1981	775
1982	817
1983	1,494
1984	2,047
1985	790
1986	1,365
1987	822
1988	1,255
1989	912
1990	900
1991	1,381
1992	1,031
1993	982
1994	776
1995	693
1996	946
1997	1,163
1998	1,215
1999	790
2000	1,172
2001	1,047
2002	1,162
2003	831
2004	1,071
2005	724
2006	1,045
2007	793
2008	809
2009	570
2010	741
2011	1,498
2012	764
2013	1,100
2014	565
2015	704
2016	402
2017	440
2018	1,211
2019	420
2020	673
2021	834
2022	902
2023	454
2024	809
2025	1,204
2026	536

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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 100	841
100 to 200	0
200 to 300	0
300 to 400	0
400 to 500	0
500 to 600	0
600 to 700	0
700 to 800	1