Sweetwater, Texas gets 23 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year.
Sweetwater averages 3 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.
On average, there are 249 sunny days per year in Sweetwater. The US average is 205 sunny days.
Sweetwater gets some kind of precipitation, on average, 47 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 Highs & Lows
Summer High: the July high is around 94 degrees
Winter Low: the January low is 29
SPERLING'S COMFORT INDEX
Sweetwater ranks 61/100 for Comfort Index
A higher score indicates a more comfortable year-round climate. The US average for the comfort index is 54. Our index is based on the total number of days annually within the comfort range of 70-80 degrees, and we also applied a penalty for days of excessive humidity.
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.