Forest, MS Climate: Temperature by Month
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30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Forest's primary NOAA station, FOREST.
The climate verdict for Forest
Forest, Mississippi has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 63°F. July is the warmest month at 79°F and January the coldest at 46°F.
- 63°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 219 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Forest: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00223107 · Forest, MS 63°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 63°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,763
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aliceville
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 33°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00223107
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Aliceville, AL (+ 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 MS station list.
- Forest (this station) 63°F
- Hot Benson, AZ 63°F
- Near Aliceville, AL 63°F
- Near Aurora, NC 63°F
- Near Bastrop, LA 63°F
Forest sits in Mississippi, the #5 hottest U.S. state at 64.1°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Forest
Forest: 85/100 · grade A
Forest publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Forest, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 63.3°F · 4.2° from 67.5°F | 87/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 70 calendar days | 85/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 219 days/year | 77/100 · B |
Forest · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Forest sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Forest are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 16% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Forest sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Forest is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 58°F (14°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | N/A | 14.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 62°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 10.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 69°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | N/A | 5.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 76°F (25°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| May | 83°F (28°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 71°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 3.4 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 77°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 15.6 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 22.5 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 21.3 |
| September | 87°F (30°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 74°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 10.3 |
| October | 78°F (25°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| November | 67°F (19°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 59°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 13.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Forest runs from a mild 33°F around January 12 to 91°F at the peak near August 5, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 21 through August 29, covering 70 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 18 to November 6.
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.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 33°F around January 12.
The widest day
October 31 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 Forest.
Where Forest Stands Nationally
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 70 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Forest 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
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 2
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 28
50% probability date
Growing Season
219 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,492
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,895
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MS closest to Forest 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 (63°F here).
- Aliceville, AL 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Aurora, NC 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Bastrop, LA 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Benson, AZ 63°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Forest's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Forest's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 33.4°F. The annual average is 63°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Forest's normal, at 2,492 and 1,895 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
A roughly 219-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Forest's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Forest's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Forest, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Forest's climate
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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 Forest's primary station: FOREST (USC00223107). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 2825340). Match rule for Forest: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Forest 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.