Lane, IL Climate

Lane, IL has a humid continental climate, with hot summers and cold winters. During the summer months, average temperatures range from the mid-seventies to the low eighties. In the winter, temperatures drop to an average of twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit during the day and seventeen degrees at night. The area receives an average of thirty-nine inches of precipitation spread throughout the year, primarily in spring and then again in late fall. Snowfall averages around fifteen inches per year.

Climate	Lane, Illinois	United States
Rainfall		38.1

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.