Weather in Decatur, month by month

Warmest month
July, 26.6
Coldest month
January, 4
Wettest month
December, 151 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Decatur is July at 26.6 degrees and the coldest is January at 4, a swing of 22.6 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in December, about 151 mm, and lightest in October at roughly 93 mm. Over a full year the cell above Decatur collects around 1,396 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are April, May, September and October. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.

Humidity peaks in January at 84 percent, and the windiest month is February at 1.5 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 55 per cent of the year total falls in December, January, February, March, April and May.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 34.61, -86.98, covering Decatur on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Decatur, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January4119 mm84%
February6.2135 mm84%
March10.9125 mm82%
April15.7125 mm79%
May20.4118 mm78%
June24.8103 mm75%
July26.6121 mm73%
August26.5104 mm70%
September23.299 mm70%
October16.893 mm71%
November10.2105 mm76%
December5.9151 mm84%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Decatur?

July, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Decatur?

January, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Decatur?

December carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Delano, month by month

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))