Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area, UT Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's primary NOAA station, DINOSAUR NM-QUARRY AREA.
The climate verdict for Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area
Winter sets the terms in Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area, Utah. A pronounced 57.6°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 49°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 49°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 8.6"
- annual precipitation · 12" snow
- 158 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00422173 · Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area, UT 49°F mean · 8.6" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,470
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ David City
- PRCP-ARID 8.6"
- SWING-WIDE 58°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,645 HDD
- STN-1 USC00422173
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: David City, NE (+ 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 UT station list.
- Dinosaur Nm-qua… (this station) 49°F
- Cold Valentine Mille…, NE 49°F
- Hot Atlantic, IA 49°F
- Near David City, NE 49°F
- Near Norfolk Karl St…, NE 49°F
Climate Living Index · Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area: 24/100 · grade F
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 12.3 inches/year | 60/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.2°F · 18.3° from 67.5°F | 37/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 158 days/year | 32/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 8.6 in · 26.4 from 35 in | 8/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 225 calendar days | 3/100 · F |
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 76.6°F
- Coldest month
- 19.0°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 Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 36th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 96%
- Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 95%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 38 complete annual observations from 1963 to 2025, DINOSAUR NM-QUARRY AREA warmed at a fitted rate of 0.14°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area primary station fitted change +0.14 °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 | 30°F (-1°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 0.6" | 3.6" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 39°F (4°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 0.6" | 2.2" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 0.6" | 0.4" | 25.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.7" | 0.3" | 13.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 75°F (24°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 2.5 | 2.7 |
| June | 88°F (31°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 16.0 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 26.8 |
| August | 92°F (33°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 24.2 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 6.1 |
| October | 65°F (19°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.1" | 0.1" | 15.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 48°F (9°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.5" | 1.2" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (0°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 0.6" | 4.5" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 95°F by July 19 and hold at or above 90°F on 64 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 161 dates, bottoming at 7°F around January 9.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 22 through August 24, covering 64 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 5 to October 7.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 1, then returns to freezing around October 24, covering 161 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 April 25, when 19% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 4 at 9%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 54 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 27 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 36°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area.
Where Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 9 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 36°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 3.6"
4.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.2"
4.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
5.6 days with precipitation
4.7 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
5.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
5.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
4.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.5"
4.1 days with precipitation
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 21% of the annual total and December through February 21%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 57.6°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: September averages 1.2" and November 0.5". The three wettest months together take 37% 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.
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 53 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 15% of the calendar, and they carry 8.6" between them. At roughly 0.16 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is September at about 6 wet days; the driest is July at about 3.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Winter brings real snow to Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area averages 12.3 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 9 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: 12.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 9 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 14% 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 6
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 1
50% probability date
Growing Season
158 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,645
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
916
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area 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 (49°F here).
- Battle Creek, MI 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Beaconsfield, IA 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Black Forest, CO 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Council, ID 49°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (8.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Boardman, OR 8.6" · 0.0" off
- Riverton, WY 8.6" · 0.0" off
- La Barge, WY 8.6" · 0.0" off
- Socorro, NM 8.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area
heating led · dry · high swing
Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area logs 6,645 heating degree days, more than twice its 916 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 57.6°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's frost-free season lasts about 158 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area coldest normal
January
Averaging 19°F (-7°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area snow peak
December
Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area averages 12.3 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area's primary station: DINOSAUR NM-QUARRY AREA (USC00422173). 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 Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area; 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 Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area 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.