Glady, WV 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 Glady's primary NOAA station, GLADY 1 N.
The climate verdict for Glady
Water is the standout signal in Glady, West Virginia: 55.3 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 47°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.
- 47°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 55.3"
- annual precipitation · 103" snow
- 141 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Glady: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00463464 · Glady, WV 47°F mean · 55.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,715
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Long Creek
- PRCP-WET 55.3"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,885 HDD
- STN-1 USC00463464
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Long Creek, OR (+ 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 WV station list.
- Glady (this station) 47°F
- Hot Bigfork, MT 47°F
- Near Long Creek, OR 47°F
- Near Paulina, OR 47°F
- Near Canaan Valley, WV 47°F
Climate Living Index · Glady
Glady: 24/100 · grade F
Glady publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Glady, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 170 calendar days | 32/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 55.3 in · 20.3 from 35 in | 27/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.6°F · 20.9° from 67.5°F | 25/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 141 days/year | 19/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 102.7 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Glady · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Glady is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 25.4°F and warmest-month mean 66.4°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
- 66.4°F
- Coldest month
- 25.4°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 Glady sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Glady's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 75%
- Among 6,861 stations, Glady sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 11% wettest
- Glady's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 40th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Glady compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Glady'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
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 (2°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 4.5" | 27.3" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 39°F (4°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 4.0" | 24.0" | 26.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 47°F (8°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 4.8" | 17.5" | 25.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 5.2" | 4.3" | 15.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 6.2" | 0.0" | 5.3 | 0.0 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| July | 78°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 5.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| August | 77°F (25°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 1.5 | 0.1 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 3.7" | 1.4" | 14.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 3.3" | 8.0" | 23.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 4.3" | 20.2" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 78°F around July 9, short of 90°F on every date, while 170 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 15°F near January 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 11, then returns to freezing around October 25, covering 170 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 January 12, when 60% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 11 at 33%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 175 wet dates a year.
The widest day
October 13 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 Glady.
Where Glady Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 55 inches.
Glady 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 and snowfall
Snow: 27.3"
19.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 24.0"
16.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 17.5"
16.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.3"
15.1 days with precipitation
16.0 days with precipitation
14.3 days with precipitation
14.9 days with precipitation
11.9 days with precipitation
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
11.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.0"
12.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 20.2"
16.9 days with precipitation
Glady 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. Glady has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 41°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 6.2" and November 3.3". The three wettest months together take 31% 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 Glady's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 175 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 55.3" between them, or roughly 0.32 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 Glady
Glady averages 102.7 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 43 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: 102.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 43 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 19% 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 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
141 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,885
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
223
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Glady 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).
- Addison, NY 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Baraboo, WI 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Boyne Falls, MI 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Coalville, UT 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (55.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Rolling Fork, MS 55.3" · 0.0" off
- Caruthersville, MO 55.3" · 0.0" off
- Tellico Plains, TN 55.3" · 0.0" off
- Selma, AL 55.4" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Glady
heating led · wet · mid swing
Glady's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,885 annual heating degree days against 223 for cooling. Its 41.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 141 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. Glady coldest normal
January
Averaging 25°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Glady typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Glady snow peak
January
Glady averages 102.7 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Glady's primary station: GLADY 1 N (USC00463464). 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 Glady; 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 Glady 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.