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Weather extremes
How extreme does Chitungwiza's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Chitungwiza 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 Chitungwiza has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 18°F hotter than a normal February afternoon in Chitungwiza (typical high near 81°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 19°F colder than a normal June night in Chitungwiza (typical low near 47°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Chitungwiza usually gets in the whole month of February (typical February total about 4.4 in).
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.
Chitungwiza's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — February's 99°F is about 18°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 26 years of daily observations at Robert Gabriel Mugabe Intl / Harare, a weather station, about 9 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.