Highgate Center, VT Climate

Highgate Center, VT has a humid continental climate with warm summers and cold winters. In the summer, average temperatures can reach up to 80°F during the day and drop to the mid-50s at night. During the winter months, temperatures can dip below freezing and snowfall is common throughout the season. The area sees an average amount of precipitation annually and usually experiences four distinct seasons.

Climate	Highgate Center, Vermont	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.