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Gerber Dam, OR Climate: Temperature by Month

Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Gerber Dam's primary NOAA station, GERBER DAM.

The climate verdict for Gerber Dam

Gerber Dam, Oregon has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 47°F. July is the warmest month at 67°F and December the coldest at 30°F.

47°F
annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
113 days
frost-free days per growing season

Gerber Dam: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USC00353232 · Gerber Dam, OR 47°F mean

TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Elkins, WV (+ 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 OR station list.

Climate Living Index · Gerber Dam

Gerber Dam: 17/100 · grade F

Gerber Dam publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.

F
17/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Gerber Dam, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.

Gerber Dam Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Annual temperature balance 46.6°F · 20.9° from 67.5°F 25/100 · F
Normal heat + freeze calendar 202 calendar days 13/100 · F
Frost-free season 113 days/year 4/100 · F

Gerber Dam · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .

National standing · heating-led station

Where Gerber Dam sits across the climate record

Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Gerber Dam are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.

Annual temperature
Cooler than 75%
Among 6,861 stations, Gerber Dam sits in the cooler third of annual means.
Seasonal temperature swing
Narrower than 77%
Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Gerber Dam is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 43°F (6°C) 21°F (-6°C) 32°F (0°C)
February 45°F (7°C) 24°F (-5°C) 34°F (1°C)
March 49°F (10°C) 25°F (-4°C) 37°F (3°C)
April 56°F (13°C) 29°F (-2°C) 42°F (6°C)
May 64°F (18°C) 37°F (3°C) 51°F (10°C)
June 75°F (24°C) 40°F (5°C) 58°F (14°C)
July 86°F (30°C) 48°F (9°C) 67°F (19°C)
August 84°F (29°C) 47°F (8°C) 66°F (19°C)
September 78°F (26°C) 39°F (4°C) 59°F (15°C)
October 64°F (18°C) 31°F (-1°C) 47°F (8°C)
November 49°F (9°C) 25°F (-4°C) 37°F (3°C)
December 40°F (4°C) 19°F (-7°C) 30°F (-1°C)

The year, day by day

Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 17, short of 90°F on every date, while 202 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 18°F near December 23.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Gerber Dam, January through December Peaks 87°F around July 17. Bottoms 18°F around December 23. 10 30 50 70 90 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, GERBER DAM.

The freezing stretch

The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 29, then returns to freezing around October 11, covering 202 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.

The widest day

September 4 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 41°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Gerber Dam.

Where Gerber Dam Stands Nationally

Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 202 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.

Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 41°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.

Gerber Dam earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.

Monthly Precipitation

Average monthly rainfall

January N/A
February N/A
March N/A
April N/A
May N/A
June N/A
July N/A
August N/A
September N/A
October N/A
November N/A
December N/A

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

September 21

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

May 31

50% probability date

Growing Season

113 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

6,831

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

126

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

December

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Gerber 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).

Oregon climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Gerber Dam's climate pattern fits together

heating led · mid swing

Gerber Dam's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,831 annual heating degree days against 126 for cooling. Its 37.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.

Only about 113 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 December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Gerber Dam's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 37.0°F. The annual average is 47°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.

A moisture-range label is withheld because Gerber Dam'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 Gerber Dam'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 Gerber Dam, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.

Questions about Gerber Dam's climate

How cold does Gerber Dam get in winter?
Gerber Dam records about 191 days a year with a low at or below freezing, with December the coldest month on the normals, and an annual average daily low of 32°F.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Gerber Dam?
Gerber Dam has 6,831 heating degree days and 126 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Gerber Dam's primary station: GERBER DAM (USC00353232). 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 Gerber Dam; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Gerber 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.