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Weather extremes
How extreme does Newcastle's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Newcastle 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 Newcastle has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
The three most extreme on record
About 21°F colder than a normal May night in Newcastle (typical low near 45°F).
The three most extreme on record
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.
Newcastle's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season. 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 23 years of daily observations at Matsapha, a weather station, about 193 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.