Hacker Valley, WV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Hacker Valley's primary NOAA station, HACKER VALLEY.
The climate verdict for Hacker Valley
Water is the standout signal in Hacker Valley, West Virginia: 62.2 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 50°F. At 34/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 2% of scores.
- 50°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 62.2"
- annual precipitation · 71" snow
- 156 days
- frost-free growing season
Hacker Valley: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00463798 · Hacker Valley, WV 50°F mean · 62.2" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-COOL #2,607
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pomeroy
- PRCP-WET 62.2"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,920 HDD
- STN-1 USC00463798
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Pomeroy, WA (+ 0.1 °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.
- Hacker Valley (this station) 50°F
- Cold Yosemite Village, CA 50°F
- Hot Moriarty, NM 50°F
- Near Pomeroy, WA 50°F
- Near Richwood, WV 50°F
Climate Living Index · Hacker Valley
Hacker Valley: 30/100 · grade F
Hacker Valley publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hacker Valley, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 156 calendar days | 42/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.7°F · 17.8° from 67.5°F | 39/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 156 days/year | 30/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 70.8 inches/year | 10/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 62.2 in · 27.2 from 35 in | 7/100 · F |
Hacker Valley · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Hacker Valley is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 29.0°F and warmest-month mean 68.7°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
- 68.7°F
- Coldest month
- 29.0°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 Hacker Valley sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Hacker Valley's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 38th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 4% wettest
- Hacker Valley's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 34th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Hacker Valley compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Hacker Valley's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
34 2nd percentile score exceeds 2% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 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 | 39°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 4.8" | 22.9" | 26.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 43°F (6°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 4.3" | 16.1" | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 5.5" | 11.6" | 21.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 5.2" | 1.9" | 10.5 | 0.1 |
| May | 71°F (21°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 6.4" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 0.0 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 6.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 6.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 5.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| September | 74°F (24°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 4.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 38°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 4.3" | 0.3" | 7.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 53°F (12°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 4.0" | 4.0" | 20.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 5.2" | 14.0" | 24.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 5, short of 90°F on every date, while 156 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 19°F near January 18.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 5, then returns to freezing around November 2, covering 156 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 17, when 62% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 12 at 38%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 184 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 19 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 Hacker Valley.
Where Hacker Valley Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 62 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Hacker Valley 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: 22.9"
19.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 16.1"
16.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.6"
16.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
15.2 days with precipitation
16.8 days with precipitation
15.5 days with precipitation
15.4 days with precipitation
13.4 days with precipitation
12.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
12.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.0"
12.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.0"
17.7 days with precipitation
Hacker Valley spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 29% of the annual total and December through February 23%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Hacker Valley has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 39.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 6.7" and November 4.0". 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 Hacker Valley's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 184 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 62.2" 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 Hacker Valley
Hacker Valley averages 70.8 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 33 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: 70.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 33 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 11% 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 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 7
50% probability date
Growing Season
156 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,920
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
378
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Hacker Valley 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 (50°F here).
- Ashland, OH 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Baring, WA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Benton Harbor, MI 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Big Springs, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (62.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Geneva, AL 62.3" · 0.1" off
- Nevada City, CA 62.3" · 0.1" off
- Gustavus, AK 62.3" · 0.1" off
- Elizabeth, LA 62.1" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Hacker Valley
heating led · wet · mid swing
Hacker Valley's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,920 annual heating degree days against 378 for cooling. Its 39.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Hacker Valley's frost-free season lasts about 156 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. Hacker Valley coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 29°F (-2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Hacker Valley typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Hacker Valley snow peak
January
Hacker Valley averages 70.8 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 Hacker Valley's primary station: HACKER VALLEY (USC00463798). 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 Hacker Valley; 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 Hacker Valley 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.