Three Lynx, 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 Three Lynx's primary NOAA station, THREE LYNX.
The climate verdict for Three Lynx
Water is the standout signal in Three Lynx, Oregon: 69.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 50°F. At 48/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 17% of scores.
- 50°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 48/100
- comfort score, above 17% of station-mapped location scores
- 69.0"
- annual precipitation · 5" snow
- 217 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Three Lynx: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00358466 · Three Lynx, OR 50°F mean · 69.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-MID #2,744
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Newhalem
- PRCP-WET 69.0"
- SWING-NARROW 29°F
- COMF-LOW 48/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,625 HDD
- STN-1 USC00358466
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Newhalem, 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 OR station list.
- Three Lynx (this station) 50°F
- Cold Mud Mtn Dam, WA 50°F
- Hot Springerville, AZ 50°F
- Near Newhalem, WA 50°F
- Near Wrightwood, CA 50°F
Climate Living Index · Three Lynx
Three Lynx: 58/100 · grade C
Three Lynx publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Three Lynx, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 48/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 14 calendar days | 99/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 217 days/year | 76/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 5.0 inches/year | 71/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.1°F · 17.4° from 67.5°F | 41/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 69.0 in · 34.0 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Three Lynx · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Three Lynx is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 36.6°F and warmest-month mean 65.5°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
- 65.5°F
- Coldest month
- 36.6°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 Three Lynx sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Three Lynx's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 40th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 2% wettest
- Three Lynx's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 92%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Three Lynx is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Three Lynx compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Three Lynx's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
48 17th percentile score exceeds 17% 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
Three Lynx's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 82 complete annual observations from 1928 to 2025, THREE LYNX warmed at a fitted rate of 0.06°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Three Lynx primary station fitted change +0.06 °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) | 33°F (0°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 9.3" | 3.1" | 17.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 46°F (8°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 7.1" | 0.2" | 14.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (11°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 8.0" | 0.5" | 10.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 6.2" | 0.0" | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 64°F (18°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| June | 69°F (21°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 3.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.9 |
| July | 78°F (26°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.4 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| October | 59°F (15°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 6.2" | 0.0" | 1.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 47°F (9°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 10.1" | 0.4" | 8.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 11.3" | 0.8" | 17.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 14 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 32°F near December 22.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into January 1, then returns to freezing around December 19, covering 14 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 13, when 70% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 2 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 176 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 30 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Three Lynx.
Where Three Lynx Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 69 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Three Lynx 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: 3.1"
19.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
17.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
20.8 days with precipitation
19.4 days with precipitation
15.6 days with precipitation
11.6 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
3.5 days with precipitation
7.4 days with precipitation
14.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
20.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
21.6 days with precipitation
Three Lynx's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 40% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 6%. 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 28.9°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 11.3"
- Driest month
- July, 0.6"
- Wettest three months
- December, November, January (44% 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 Three Lynx, it arrives in quantity
69.0" of precipitation falls across only about 176 wet days here, averaging 0.39 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 176 a year, 48% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.39 inches
- Most wet days
- December, about 22
- Fewest wet days
- August, about 4
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 Three Lynx, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 5.0 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 2 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
November 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 5
50% probability date
Growing Season
217 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,625
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
201
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Three Lynx 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).
- Akron, CO 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Ansonia, CT 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Austin, NV 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Banner Elk, NC 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (69.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Robertsdale, AL 69.0" · 0.0" off
- Fort Lauderdale, FL 68.8" · 0.2" off
- Moss Bluff, LA 69.3" · 0.3" off
- Startup, WA 68.3" · 0.6" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Three Lynx's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Three Lynx, at 5,625 degree days versus 201 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 28.9°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Three Lynx's frost-free season lasts about 217 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
Three Lynx's 28.9°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 50°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Alongside its heating load, Three Lynx carries 69.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Annual snowfall totals 5.0 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 Three Lynx'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 Three Lynx, 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 Three Lynx's primary station: THREE LYNX (USC00358466). 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 Three Lynx; 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 Three Lynx 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.