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Weather extremes
How extreme does Mount Gambier's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Mount Gambier 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 Mount Gambier has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 33°F hotter than a normal January afternoon in Mount Gambier (typical high near 78°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 14°F colder than a normal June night in Mount Gambier (typical low near 41°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Mount Gambier usually gets in the whole month of January (typical January total about 1.3 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.
Mount Gambier's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — January's 111°F is about 33°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 17 years of daily observations at Mount Gambier Post Office, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.