Today in New York City Weather History: May 13

1990 (Sunday)

During an afternoon downpour on Mother's Day, 0.52" of rain came down in a twenty-minute period between 4:12-4:32 PM.  

2005 (Friday)

For the third day in a row the high was an unseasonably warm 86°, seventeen degrees above average.   

2010 (Thursday)

After the month started with six days that were 14 degrees warmer than average (high/low of 82°/64°), the past five days were 11 degrees below average (57°/43°), with morning lows in the 41°-44° range. 

2012 (Sunday)

This was one of the warmest Mother's Day in a while as the afternoon high topped out at 81°, eleven degrees above average.  It was also the warmest day in four weeks, and the tenth year in a row in which no rain fell on this date.

 

2017 (Saturday)

The day was dreary, raw and windy, with a steady, all-day rain that amounted to 1.61" (just 0.05" less than the date's record).  Morning and afternoon temperatures hovered around 50,° and then fell into the 40s during the evening. 

2018 (Sunday)

It was a cool and dismal Mother's Day, with light showers, drizzle and fog throughout the day (which amounted to just 0.10").  The high of 54° was the coolest reading on the holiday in eight years, and there was just a two-degree difference between the day's high and low. 

2019 (Monday)

Rainy and unusually chilly as temperatures stayed in the 40s for the entire day, continuing a streak of hours with sub-50° readings that began at dawn yesterday; today's high/low of 48°/42° was seventeen degrees below average (the low was the chilliest in May in six years).  The 0.70" of rain that fell today (much of it during the afternoon/early evening) followed 1.32" that fell yesterday from a nor'easter.