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Weather extremes
How extreme does Bay City's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Bay City 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 Bay City has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 16°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Bay City (typical high near 83°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 37°F colder than a normal February night in Bay City (typical low near 17°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Bay City usually gets in the whole month of September (typical September total about 2.7 in).
The three most extreme on record
Close to a whole typical February's snow in one day (Bay City averages about 9 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.
Bay City's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 99°F is about 16°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 — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from NOAA's U.S. Climate Normals, measured at Saginaw #3 (NOAA GHCN station USC00207222), about 21 km from the city centre.