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Weather extremes
How extreme does Murang’a's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Murang’a 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 Murang’a has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 20°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Murang’a (typical high near 81°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 22°F colder than a normal August night in Murang’a (typical low near 56°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Murang’a usually gets in the whole month of December (typical December 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.
Murang’a's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 101°F is about 20°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 Nyeri, a weather station, about 32 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.