Bolivar, MS Climate

Bolivar, MS has hot and humid summers with temperatures often reaching into the 90s Fahrenheit during the day. In the winter, temperatures in Bolivar can drop into the 30s at night but generally stay in the 50s and 60s during the day. The area receives an average precipitation of around 50 inches per year, mostly falling during the summer months. The area experiences severe thunderstorms throughout the spring and summer seasons, with some areas receiving heavy flooding from tropical storms and hurricanes that move through each year.

Climate	Bolivar, Mississippi	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.