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Weather extremes
How extreme does Central Coast's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Central Coast 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 Central Coast has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 32°F hotter than a normal January afternoon in Central Coast (typical high near 80°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 14°F colder than a normal July night in Central Coast (typical low near 46°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Central Coast usually gets in the whole month of January (typical January total about 3.7 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.
Central Coast's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — January's 112°F is about 32°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 30 years of daily observations at Sydney (observatory Hill), a weather station, about 50 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.