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Weather extremes
How extreme does Cargados Carajos's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Cargados Carajos 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 Cargados Carajos has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 11°F hotter than a normal December afternoon in Cargados Carajos (typical high near 87°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 47°F colder than a normal March night in Cargados Carajos (typical low near 79°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Cargados Carajos usually gets in the whole month of February (typical February total about 7.8 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.
Cargados Carajos's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — December's 98°F is about 11°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 27 years of daily observations at St. Brandon (st. RA, a weather station, about 18 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.