Skamania Fish Hatchery, WA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Skamania Fish Hatchery's primary NOAA station, SKAMANIA FISH HATCHERY.
The climate verdict for Skamania Fish Hatchery
Water is the standout signal in Skamania Fish Hatchery, Washington: 83.3 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 51°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.
- 51°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 83.3"
- annual precipitation · 6" snow
- 176 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Skamania Fish Hatchery: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00457696 · Skamania Fish Hatchery, WA 51°F mean · 83.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,019
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Falls City
- PRCP-WET 83.3"
- SWING-NARROW 27°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,316 HDD
- STN-1 USC00457696
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Falls City, 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 WA station list.
- Skamania Fish H… (this station) 51°F
- Cold Concrete Ppl Fi…, WA 51°F
- Hot Vancouver, WA 51°F
- Near Falls City, OR 51°F
- Near Highlands, NC 51°F
Climate Living Index · Skamania Fish Hatchery
Skamania Fish Hatchery: 56/100 · grade C
Skamania Fish Hatchery publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Skamania Fish Hatchery, 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 | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 6.2 inches/year | 69/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 176 days/year | 47/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.9°F · 16.6° from 67.5°F | 44/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 83.3 in · 48.3 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Skamania Fish Hatchery · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Skamania Fish Hatchery is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 38.5°F and warmest-month mean 65.0°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
- 65.0°F
- Coldest month
- 38.5°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 Skamania Fish Hatchery sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Skamania Fish Hatchery's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 44th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Skamania Fish Hatchery's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 94%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Skamania Fish Hatchery is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Skamania Fish Hatchery compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Skamania Fish Hatchery'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
Skamania Fish Hatchery's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 41 complete annual observations from 1970 to 2024, SKAMANIA FISH HATCHERY warmed at a fitted rate of 0.20°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Skamania Fish Hatchery primary station fitted change +0.19 °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 | 44°F (7°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 11.1" | 2.1" | 15.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 49°F (9°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 8.8" | 1.9" | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 8.9" | 0.3" | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 7.5" | 0.0" | 6.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 5.2" | 0.0" | 1.5 | 0.7 |
| June | 71°F (22°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 1.5 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 5.0 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| September | 74°F (23°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 2.1 |
| October | 62°F (17°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 7.8" | 0.0" | 4.4 | 0.1 |
| November | 51°F (10°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 12.4" | 0.4" | 10.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 12.2" | 1.5" | 14.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Skamania Fish Hatchery: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 32°F near January 1 and 82°F near July 29.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 32°F around January 1.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is December 13, when 69% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 2 at 13%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 178 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Skamania Fish Hatchery.
Where Skamania Fish Hatchery Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 83 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Skamania Fish Hatchery 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: 2.1"
19.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
17.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
20.2 days with precipitation
19.2 days with precipitation
14.9 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
5.0 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
8.3 days with precipitation
15.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
19.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
21.3 days with precipitation
Skamania Fish Hatchery's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 39% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 7%. 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 an unusually narrow 26.5°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- November, 12.4"
- Driest month
- July, 0.9"
- Wettest three months
- November, December, January (43% 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.
When it rains in Skamania Fish Hatchery, it arrives in quantity
83.3" of precipitation falls across only about 177 wet days here, averaging 0.47 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 177 a year, 49% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.47 inches
- Most wet days
- December, about 21
- Fewest wet days
- August, about 5
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Snow reaches Skamania Fish Hatchery, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 6.2 inches of snow a year here, most likely in January. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 5 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 22
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 29
50% probability date
Growing Season
176 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,316
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
181
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Skamania Fish Hatchery 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).
- Belington, WV 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Bland, VA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Des Moines, IA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Falls City, OR 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (83.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Mapleton, OR 84.0" · 0.7" off
- Point Baker, AK 82.3" · 1.0" off
- Valdez, AK 82.1" · 1.2" off
- Thorne Bay, AK 85.2" · 1.9" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Skamania Fish Hatchery's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Skamania Fish Hatchery, at 5,316 degree days versus 181 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 26.5°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Skamania Fish Hatchery'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.
Skamania Fish Hatchery's 26.5°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 51°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Alongside its heating load, Skamania Fish Hatchery carries 83.3 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Annual snowfall totals 6.2 inches. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Skamania Fish Hatchery'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 Skamania Fish Hatchery, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Skamania Fish Hatchery's primary station: SKAMANIA FISH HATCHERY (USC00457696). 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 Skamania Fish Hatchery; 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 Skamania Fish Hatchery 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.