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Weather extremes
How extreme does Kurunegala's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Kurunegala 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 Kurunegala has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 8°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Kurunegala (typical high near 94°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 23°F colder than a normal June night in Kurunegala (typical low near 77°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 91% of a typical November's rain in a single day (Kurunegala averages roughly 11.7 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.
Kurunegala's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 102°F is about 8°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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.
Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 10 years of daily observations at Kurunegala, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.