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NOAA 1991–2020 normals Station-mapped location · no exact Census place match 1 NOAA station · Primary-station record

Lost Rvr, WV Climate: Temperature by Month

Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Lost Rvr's primary NOAA station, LOST RVR.

The climate verdict for Lost Rvr

Lost Rvr, West Virginia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 51°F. July is the warmest month at 71°F and January the coldest at 30°F.

51°F
yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
162 days
frost-free days per growing season

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

Normals record plate

Sheet USC00465453 · Lost Rvr, WV 51°F mean

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

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Lewisburg, 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 WV station list.

Climate Living Index · Lost Rvr

Lost Rvr: 44/100 · grade D

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

D
44/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Lost Rvr, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.

Lost Rvr Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Normal heat + freeze calendar 146 calendar days 49/100 · D
Annual temperature balance 50.7°F · 16.8° from 67.5°F 43/100 · D
Frost-free season 162 days/year 35/100 · F

Lost Rvr · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .

National standing · heating-led station

Where Lost Rvr sits across the climate record

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

Annual temperature
43rd percentile warmth
Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
Seasonal temperature swing
38th percentile swing
Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 41°F (5°C) 19°F (-7°C) 30°F (-1°C)
February 44°F (7°C) 20°F (-7°C) 32°F (0°C)
March 51°F (11°C) 26°F (-3°C) 39°F (4°C)
April 64°F (18°C) 37°F (3°C) 51°F (10°C)
May 72°F (22°C) 46°F (8°C) 59°F (15°C)
June 79°F (26°C) 55°F (13°C) 67°F (19°C)
July 84°F (29°C) 58°F (14°C) 71°F (21°C)
August 82°F (28°C) 57°F (14°C) 69°F (21°C)
September 76°F (25°C) 50°F (10°C) 63°F (17°C)
October 65°F (18°C) 39°F (4°C) 52°F (11°C)
November 55°F (13°C) 30°F (-1°C) 42°F (6°C)
December 45°F (7°C) 23°F (-5°C) 34°F (1°C)

The year, day by day

Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 9, short of 90°F on every date, while 146 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 18°F near January 28.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Lost Rvr, January through December Peaks 84°F around July 9. Bottoms 18°F around January 28. 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, LOST RVR.

The freezing stretch

The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 2, then returns to freezing around November 9, covering 146 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

April 21 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 Lost Rvr.

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

October 12

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

May 3

50% probability date

Growing Season

162 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

5,722

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

530

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

January

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Lost Rvr 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).

West Virginia climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Lost Rvr's climate pattern fits together

heating led · mid swing

Lost Rvr's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,722 annual heating degree days against 530 for cooling. Its 40.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.

Lost Rvr's frost-free season lasts about 162 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.

July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Lost Rvr's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 40.5°F. The annual average is 51°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.

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

Questions about Lost Rvr's climate

How cold does Lost Rvr get in winter?
Lost Rvr records about 139 days a year with a low at or below freezing, with January the coldest month on the normals, and an annual average daily low of 38°F.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Lost Rvr?
Lost Rvr has 5,722 heating degree days and 530 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 Lost Rvr's primary station: LOST RVR (USC00465453). 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 Lost Rvr; 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 Lost Rvr 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.