Hood Rvr Exp Stn, OR 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 Hood Rvr Exp Stn's primary NOAA station, HOOD RVR EXP STN.
The climate verdict for Hood Rvr Exp Stn
Hood Rvr Exp Stn, Oregon has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 51°F. Its climate comfort score of 64/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 49% of station-mapped location scores.
- 51°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 64/100
- comfort score, above 49% of station-mapped location scores
- 30.4"
- annual precipitation · 17" snow
- 176 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Hood Rvr Exp Stn: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00354003 · Hood Rvr Exp Stn, OR 51°F mean · 30.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,087
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lake Arrowhead
- PRCP-MID 30.4"
- SWING-MID 33°F
- COMF-MID 64/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,412 HDD
- STN-1 USC00354003
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Lake Arrowhead, CA (+ 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.
- Hood Rvr (this station) 51°F
- Cold Mckenzie Rvr Ra…, OR 51°F
- Hot Floyd, VA 51°F
- Near Lake Arrowhead, CA 51°F
- Near Jefferson, NC 51°F
Climate Living Index · Hood Rvr Exp Stn
Hood Rvr Exp Stn: 63/100 · grade C
Hood Rvr Exp Stn publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hood Rvr Exp Stn, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 64/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 30.4 in · 4.6 from 35 in | 84/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 89 calendar days | 79/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 17.2 inches/year | 53/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 176 days/year | 47/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.1°F · 16.4° from 67.5°F | 45/100 · D |
Hood Rvr Exp Stn · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Hood Rvr Exp Stn is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 35.4°F and warmest-month mean 68.6°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 68.6°F
- Coldest month
- 35.4°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 Hood Rvr Exp Stn sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Hood Rvr Exp Stn's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 45th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 40th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 86%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Hood Rvr Exp Stn is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Hood Rvr Exp Stn compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Hood Rvr Exp Stn's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
64 49th percentile score exceeds 49% 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%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Hood Rvr Exp Stn's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 93 complete annual observations from 1892 to 2024, HOOD RVR EXP STN warmed at a fitted rate of 0.11°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Hood Rvr Exp Stn primary station fitted change +0.11 °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 | 41°F (5°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 5.2" | 6.9" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 46°F (8°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 3.5" | 2.5" | 16.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (12°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 3.2" | 0.7" | 12.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 60°F (16°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 4.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| June | 74°F (23°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.8 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.3 |
| September | 76°F (24°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 2.5 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 2.6" | 0.1" | 6.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (9°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 4.8" | 1.5" | 12.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 40°F (5°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 5.9" | 5.5" | 19.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 89 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 30°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 1, then returns to freezing around December 4, covering 89 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 December 12, when 63% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 25 at 5%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 132 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 29°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Hood Rvr Exp Stn.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 6.9"
18.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.5"
15.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
15.3 days with precipitation
12.9 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
11.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
17.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.5"
19.2 days with precipitation
Hood Rvr Exp Stn's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 48% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 4%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows a 33.2°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 5.9"
- Driest month
- August, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, November (52% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
How Hood Rvr Exp Stn's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 132 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 30.4" between them, or roughly 0.23 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 Hood Rvr Exp Stn
Hood Rvr Exp Stn averages 17.2 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 10 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: 17.2 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 10 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 6% 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 13
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 20
50% probability date
Growing Season
176 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,412
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
380
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Hood Rvr Exp Stn 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 (51°F here).
- Alpine, UT 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Baiting Hollow, NY 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Burr Oak, KS 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Cambridge, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (30.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Florence, WI 30.4" · 0.0" off
- Goldthwaite, TX 30.4" · 0.0" off
- Aurora, NE 30.4" · 0.0" off
- Fremont, NE 30.4" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Hood Rvr Exp Stn
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Hood Rvr Exp Stn's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,412 annual heating degree days against 380 for cooling. Its 33.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Hood Rvr Exp Stn's frost-free season lasts about 176 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. Hood Rvr Exp Stn coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 35°F (2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Hood Rvr Exp Stn typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Hood Rvr Exp Stn snow peak
January
Hood Rvr Exp Stn averages 17.2 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 Hood Rvr Exp Stn's primary station: HOOD RVR EXP STN (USC00354003). 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 Hood Rvr Exp Stn; 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 Hood Rvr Exp Stn 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.