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Weather extremes
How extreme does Medicine Hat's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Medicine Hat has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Medicine Hat has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 24°F hotter than a normal August afternoon in Medicine Hat (typical high near 81°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 52°F colder than a normal January night in Medicine Hat (typical low near 9°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Medicine Hat usually gets in the whole month of July (typical July total about 1.4 in).
The three most extreme on record
Close to a whole typical November's snow in one day (Medicine Hat averages about 4 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Medicine Hat's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — August's 105°F is about 24°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 20 years of daily observations at Medicine Hat Rcs, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.