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Weather extremes
How extreme does Mackay's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Mackay 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 Mackay has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 17°F hotter than a normal November afternoon in Mackay (typical high near 86°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 19°F colder than a normal July night in Mackay (typical low near 52°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 100% of a typical January's rain in a single day (Mackay averages roughly 9.2 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.
Mackay's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — November's 103°F is about 17°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 25 years of daily observations at Mackay Aero, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.