Pleasant Mt, PA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Pleasant Mt's primary NOAA station, PLEASANT MT 1 W.
The climate verdict for Pleasant Mt
Water is the standout signal in Pleasant Mt, Pennsylvania: 51.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 44°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.
- 44°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 51.4"
- annual precipitation · 69" snow
- 140 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Pleasant Mt: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00367029 · Pleasant Mt, PA 44°F mean · 51.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #1,029
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Valier
- PRCP-WET 51.4"
- SWING-WIDE 46°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,837 HDD
- STN-1 USC00367029
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Valier, MT (+ 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 PA station list.
- Pleasant Mt (this station) 44°F
- Cold Fortine, MT 44°F
- Hot Shonkin, MT 44°F
- Near Valier, MT 44°F
- Near Hill City, SD 44°F
Climate Living Index · Pleasant Mt
Pleasant Mt: 25/100 · grade F
Pleasant Mt publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Pleasant Mt, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 51.4 in · 16.4 from 35 in | 42/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 172 calendar days | 31/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 140 days/year | 18/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 44.1°F · 23.4° from 67.5°F | 16/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 69.2 inches/year | 10/100 · F |
Pleasant Mt · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Pleasant Mt is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 20.5°F and warmest-month mean 66.7°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
- 66.7°F
- Coldest month
- 20.5°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 Pleasant Mt sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Pleasant Mt's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 85%
- Among 6,861 stations, Pleasant Mt sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 16% wettest
- Pleasant Mt's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 65th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Pleasant Mt compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Pleasant Mt'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
Pleasant Mt's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 53 complete annual observations from 1952 to 2024, PLEASANT MT 1 W warmed at a fitted rate of 0.27°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Pleasant Mt primary station fitted change +0.26 °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 | 29°F (-2°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 3.5" | 17.3" | 29.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 32°F (0°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 3.0" | 17.7" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 40°F (4°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 3.6" | 13.0" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 53°F (12°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 4.2" | 1.3" | 17.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 4.9" | 0.0" | 3.2 | 0.0 |
| June | 73°F (23°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| July | 77°F (25°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| August | 76°F (24°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| September | 69°F (21°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 57°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 5.0" | 0.4" | 10.9 | 0.0 |
| November | 45°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 3.8" | 4.9" | 22.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 34°F (1°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 4.0" | 14.6" | 28.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 78°F around July 13, short of 90°F on every date, while 172 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 11°F near January 26.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 18, then returns to freezing around October 30, covering 172 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 May 13, when 47% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 1 at 35%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 147 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 4 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Pleasant Mt.
Where Pleasant Mt Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 51 inches.
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Pleasant Mt earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 17.3"
13.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 17.7"
11.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 13.0"
11.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.3"
12.2 days with precipitation
14.7 days with precipitation
13.3 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
12.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.9"
10.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.6"
13.1 days with precipitation
Pleasant Mt spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 28% of the annual total and December through February 20%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Pleasant Mt has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 46.2°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 5.0" and February 3.0". The three wettest months together take 29% 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 Pleasant Mt's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 147 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 51.4" between them, or roughly 0.35 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 Pleasant Mt
Pleasant Mt averages 69.2 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 31 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: 69.2 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 31 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 13% 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 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 14
50% probability date
Growing Season
140 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,837
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
236
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside PA closest to Pleasant Mt 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 (44°F here).
- Aberdeen, SD 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Belfast, ME 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Bushnell, NE 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Cambridge, MN 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (51.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hardy, AR 51.4" · 0.0" off
- Mannington, WV 51.4" · 0.0" off
- Palm Coast, FL 51.4" · 0.0" off
- Shreveport, LA 51.4" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Pleasant Mt
heating led · wet · mid swing
Pleasant Mt's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,837 annual heating degree days against 236 for cooling. Its 46.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 140 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. Pleasant Mt coldest normal
January
Averaging 21°F (-6°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Pleasant Mt typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Pleasant Mt snow peak
February
Pleasant Mt averages 69.2 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Pleasant Mt's primary station: PLEASANT MT 1 W (USC00367029). 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 Pleasant Mt; 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 Pleasant Mt 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.