Ashland Kennedy Mem, WI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Ashland Kennedy Mem's primary NOAA station, ASHLAND KENNEDY MEM AP.
The climate verdict for Ashland Kennedy Mem
Ashland Kennedy Mem, Wisconsin has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 42°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 42°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 27.9"
- yearly precipitation total
- 129 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Ashland Kennedy Mem: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00094929 · Ashland Kennedy Mem, WI 42°F mean · 27.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 42°F
- RANK-COOL #549
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lakewood
- PRCP-MID 27.9"
- SWING-WIDE 53°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,796 HDD
- STN-1 USW00094929
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Lakewood, WI (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every WI station list.
- Ashland Kennedy… (this station) 42°F
- Hot Presque Isle, ME 42°F
- Near Lakewood, WI 42°F
- Cold Chatham, MI 41°F
- Near Superior, WI 41°F
Climate Living Index · Ashland Kennedy Mem
Ashland Kennedy Mem: 26/100 · grade F
Ashland Kennedy Mem publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Ashland Kennedy Mem, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 27.9 in · 7.1 from 35 in | 75/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 186 calendar days | 22/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 129 days/year | 11/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 41.5°F · 26.0° from 67.5°F | 8/100 · F |
Ashland Kennedy Mem · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Ashland Kennedy Mem is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 14.0°F and warmest-month mean 66.7°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 66.7°F
- Coldest month
- 14.0°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Ashland Kennedy Mem sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Ashland Kennedy Mem's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 92%
- Among 6,861 stations, Ashland Kennedy Mem sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 38th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 88%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Ashland Kennedy Mem is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Ashland Kennedy Mem compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Ashland Kennedy Mem's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22°F (-5°C) | 6°F (-15°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 0.6" | 30.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 27°F (-3°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 0.7" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 38°F (3°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.1" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 51°F (10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 2.3" | 21.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 64°F (18°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 3.5" | 7.7 | 0.4 |
| June | 73°F (23°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 3.9" | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 3.9" | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| August | 77°F (25°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 3.4" | 0.0 | 0.9 |
| September | 69°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 3.0" | 2.0 | 0.3 |
| October | 55°F (13°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 2.8" | 14.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 40°F (5°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.6" | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 28°F (-2°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 1.0" | 29.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 19, short of 90°F on every date, while 186 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 5°F near January 23.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 26, then returns to freezing around October 24, covering 186 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is August 2, when 44% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is February 4 at 22%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 124 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 19 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Ashland Kennedy Mem.
Where Ashland Kennedy Mem Stands Nationally
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 186 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Ashland Kennedy Mem earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
6.7 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
12.1 days with precipitation
12.9 days with precipitation
12.9 days with precipitation
13.9 days with precipitation
12.7 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
7.9 days with precipitation
Ashland Kennedy Mem runs a summer-peaked wet season
41% of Ashland Kennedy Mem's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is July at 3.9", on a wide 52.7°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: July, June, May, taking 41% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.6".
- Winter share: 8% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
How Ashland Kennedy Mem's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 123 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 27.9" between them, or roughly 0.23 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 29
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 23
50% probability date
Growing Season
129 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,796
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
259
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WI closest to Ashland Kennedy Mem on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (42°F here).
- Forman, ND 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Gloversville, NY 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Hebron, ND 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Lima, MT 42°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (27.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Sioux Falls, SD 27.9" · 0.0" off
- Norfolk, NE 27.9" · 0.0" off
- Hastings, NE 27.8" · 0.0" off
- Coleman, TX 27.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Ashland Kennedy Mem's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Ashland Kennedy Mem's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,796 annual heating degree days against 259 for cooling. Its 52.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 129 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Ashland Kennedy Mem's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 52.7°F. The annual average is 42°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Ashland Kennedy Mem's 27.9 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Ashland Kennedy Mem's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Ashland Kennedy Mem, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Ashland Kennedy Mem's primary station: ASHLAND KENNEDY MEM AP (USW00094929). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Ashland Kennedy Mem; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Ashland Kennedy Mem comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.