Petersburg, OH Climate

Petersburg, OH has a humid continental climate, characterized by cold winters and hot summers. Summers in this region are generally mild with temperatures reaching the low 90s during the hottest months of July and August. Winters can be frigid with temperatures dropping to below freezing throughout December, January, and February; however, snowfall is generally light and averages only around 20 inches per year. Precipitation is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, but typically increases in summer months due to the warm airmass that moves through the area from nearby bodies of water like Lake Erie.

Climate	Petersburg, Ohio	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.