Barre Falls Dam, MA 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 Barre Falls Dam's primary NOAA station, BARRE FALLS DAM.
The climate verdict for Barre Falls Dam
Water is the standout signal in Barre Falls Dam, Massachusetts: 47.7 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 47°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 47°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 47.7"
- annual precipitation · 60" snow
- 142 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Barre Falls Dam: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00190408 · Barre Falls Dam, MA 47°F mean · 47.7" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,921
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wind Cave
- PRCP-MID 47.7"
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,919 HDD
- STN-1 USC00190408
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Wind Cave, SD (+ 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 MA station list.
- Barre Falls Dam (this station) 47°F
- Cold Whitmore Lake, MI 47°F
- Hot Fulton Oswego C…, NY 47°F
- Near Wind Cave, SD 47°F
- Near Massacre Rocks…, ID 47°F
Climate Living Index · Barre Falls Dam
Barre Falls Dam: 31/100 · grade F
Barre Falls Dam publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Barre Falls Dam, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 47.7 in · 12.7 from 35 in | 55/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 171 calendar days | 31/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.2°F · 20.3° from 67.5°F | 28/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 142 days/year | 20/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 60.4 inches/year | 15/100 · F |
Barre Falls Dam · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Barre Falls Dam is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 23.7°F and warmest-month mean 70.4°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
- 70.4°F
- Coldest month
- 23.7°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 Barre Falls Dam sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Barre Falls Dam's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 72%
- Among 6,861 stations, Barre Falls Dam sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 25% wettest
- Barre Falls Dam's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 67th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Barre Falls Dam compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Barre Falls Dam's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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
Barre Falls Dam's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 38 complete annual observations from 1962 to 2024, BARRE FALLS DAM warmed at a fitted rate of 0.32°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Barre Falls Dam primary station fitted change +0.32 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35°F (1°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 3.5" | 13.6" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (3°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 3.0" | 14.9" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 46°F (8°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 3.6" | 12.2" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 3.9" | 3.5" | 18.7 | 0.1 |
| May | 70°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (14°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 4.7 | 0.6 |
| June | 78°F (26°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 1.8 |
| July | 83°F (28°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.8 |
| August | 81°F (27°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 2.1 | 0.5 |
| October | 62°F (17°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 4.9" | 0.2" | 13.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 3.7" | 2.9" | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 40°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 4.3" | 13.1" | 28.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 12, short of 90°F on every date, while 171 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 12°F near January 26.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 15, then returns to freezing around October 28, covering 171 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 May 15, when 45% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 2 at 32%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 141 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 28 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Barre Falls Dam.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 13.6"
12.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.9"
10.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.2"
11.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.5"
12.4 days with precipitation
13.9 days with precipitation
12.8 days with precipitation
11.5 days with precipitation
10.7 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
11.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.9"
11.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 13.1"
12.5 days with precipitation
Barre Falls Dam spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 27% of the annual total and December through February 23%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Barre Falls Dam has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 46.7°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: October averages 4.9" and February 3.0". The three wettest months together take 29% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
How Barre Falls Dam's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 141 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 47.7" between them, or roughly 0.34 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.
Winter brings real snow to Barre Falls Dam
Barre Falls Dam averages 60.4 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 25 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 60.4 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 25 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 13% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 12
50% probability date
Growing Season
142 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,919
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
482
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MA closest to Barre Falls Dam 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 (47°F here).
- Amboy, MN 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Burton, MI 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Concord, NH 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Fort Atkinson, WI 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (47.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Du Quoin, IL 47.7" · 0.0" off
- Chatham, VA 47.7" · 0.0" off
- Seabrook Farms, NJ 47.7" · 0.0" off
- Cynthiana, KY 47.7" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Barre Falls Dam
heating led · wet · mid swing
Barre Falls Dam's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,919 annual heating degree days against 482 for cooling. Its 46.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 142 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.
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1. Barre Falls Dam coldest normal
January
Averaging 24°F (-5°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Barre Falls Dam typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Barre Falls Dam snow peak
February
Barre Falls Dam averages 60.4 inches of snow a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Barre Falls Dam's primary station: BARRE FALLS DAM (USC00190408). 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 Barre Falls Dam; 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 Barre Falls Dam 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.