Lake Holiday, VA Climate


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Lake Holiday, VA has a mild climate with four distinct seasons. Spring offers warm temperatures and lots of rain, making it ideal for growing plants. The summers in Lake Holiday are hot and humid with temperatures reaching into the 90s at times. Fall brings cooler temperatures and vibrant foliage with reds, oranges and yellows everywhere you look. Finally, winter brings cold temperatures that sometimes drop below freezing accompanied by snowfall but generally not more than several inches at a time.

Lake Holiday, Virginia gets 39 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year.

Lake Holiday averages 21 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.

On average, there are 197 sunny days per year in Lake Holiday. The US average is 205 sunny days.

Lake Holiday gets some kind of precipitation, on average, 111 days per year. Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground. In order for precipitation to be counted you have to get at least .01 inches on the ground to measure.


Weather Highlights

Summer High: the July high is around 85 degrees
Winter Low: the January low is 21
Rain: averages 39 inches of rain a year
Snow: averages 21 inches of snow a year


Bestplaces Comfort Index

The annual BestPlaces Comfort Index for Lake Holiday is 7.3 (10=best), which means it is about average compared to other places in Virginia.

8.9 Summer - 5.5 Winter
June, September and August are the most pleasant months in Lake Holiday, while January and February are the least comfortable months.

  ClimateLake Holiday, VirginiaUnited States
  38.6 in.38.1 in.
  21.1 in.27.8 in.
  111.3 days106.2 days
  197 days205 days
  85.0°85.8°
  21.2°21.7°
  7.37
  4.24.3
  913 ft.2443 ft.
Climate
YOU SHOULD KNOW

Many people confuse weather and climate but they are different. Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere is over long periods of time.

Weather is how the atmosphere is behaving and its effects upon life and human activities. Weather can change from minute-to-minute. Most people think of weather in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, wind, and atmospheric pressure.

Climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a place. Climate can mean the average weather for a particular region and time period taken over 30 years. Climate is the average of weather over time.

July is the hottest month for Lake Holiday with an average high temperature of 85.0°, which ranks it as cooler than most places in Virginia. In Lake Holiday, there are 4 comfortable months with high temperatures in the range of 70-85°. The most pleasant months of the year for Lake Holiday are September, June and August.
In Lake Holiday, there are 16.3 days annually when the high temperature is over 90°, which is cooler than most places in Virginia.
January has the coldest nighttime temperatures for Lake Holiday with an average of 21.2°. This is one of the coldest places in Virginia.
In Lake Holiday, there are 115.3 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below freezing, which is colder than most places in Virginia.
In Lake Holiday, there are 0.8 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below zero°, which is colder than most places in Virginia.
The humidity is usually comfortable in Lake Holiday but some summer months can be sticky or muggy. July is the most humid month, though humidity is low for most of the year. The most humid months are July, August and June.
May is the wettest month in Lake Holiday with 3.9 inches of rain, and the driest month is February with 2.4 inches. The wettest season is Autumn with 27% of yearly precipitation and 20% occurs in Spring, which is the driest season. The annual rainfall of 38.6 inches in Lake Holiday means that it is one of the driest places in Virginia.
May is the rainiest month in Lake Holiday with 12.2 days of rain, and February is the driest month with only 7.4 rainy days. There are 111.3 rainy days annually in Lake Holiday, which is less rainy than most places in Virginia. The rainiest season is Summer when it rains 29% of the time and the driest is Spring with only a 22% chance of a rainy day.
An annual snowfall of 21.1 inches in Lake Holiday means that it is snowier than most places in Virginia. January is the snowiest month in Lake Holiday with 6.7 inches of snow, and 5 months of the year have significant snowfall.
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