Zip 13778 (Greene, NY) Climate

13778 Greene, NY has a humid continental climate with four distinct seasons. Summers are usually long and hot with temperatures reaching up to 80 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, while winters are cold and snowy with temperatures dropping as low as 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Spring and autumn are milder, but still quite wet with average precipitation levels reaching up to 4 inches per month. The area is known for its extreme weather patterns such as heavy snowfalls in winter and thunderstorms in summer.

Greene (zip 13778), New York gets 40 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year.

Greene (zip 13778) averages 68 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.

On average, there are 154 sunny days per year in Greene (zip 13778). The US average is 205 sunny days.

Greene (zip 13778) gets some kind of precipitation, on average, 154 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 Highlights

Summer High: the July high is around 81 degrees
Winter Low: the January low is 12
Rain: averages 40 inches of rain a year
Snow: averages 68 inches of snow a year

Bestplaces Comfort Index

The annual BestPlaces Comfort Index for the 13778 zip code is 6.4 (10=best), which means it is less comfortable than most places in New York.

9 Summer - 3.8 Winter

August, July and June are the most pleasant months in the 13778 zip code, while January and February are the least comfortable months.

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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.

July is the hottest month for the 13778 zip code with an average high temperature of 80.6°, which ranks it as cooler than most places in New York. In the 13778 zip code, there are 4 comfortable months with high temperatures in the range of 70-85°. The most pleasant months of the year for the 13778 zip code are August, June and July.

In the 13778 zip code, there are 3.6 days annually when the high temperature is over 90°, which is cooler than most places in New York.

January has the coldest nighttime temperatures for the 13778 zip code with an average of 11.5°. This is colder than most places in New York.

In the 13778 zip code, there are 162.6 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below freezing, which is one of the coldest places in New York.

In the 13778 zip code, there are 12.1 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below zero°, which is colder than most places in New York.

Humidity in the 13778 zip code is generally quite low and comfortable. There are few days during the summer when the humidity becomes unpleasant. The most humid months (but still comfortable) are July, August and June.

June is the wettest month in the 13778 zip code with 4.3 inches of rain, and the driest month is February with 2.3 inches. The wettest season is Autumn with 29% of yearly precipitation and 19% occurs in Spring, which is the driest season. The annual rainfall of 40.3 inches in the 13778 zip code means that it is drier than most places in New York.

January is the rainiest month in the 13778 zip code with 14.9 days of rain, and August is the driest month with only 10.6 rainy days. There are 153.9 rainy days annually in the 13778 zip code, which is rainier than most places in New York. The rainiest season is Spring when it rains 27% of the time and the driest is Autumn with only a 23% chance of a rainy day.

An annual snowfall of 67.9 inches in the 13778 zip code means that it is snowier than most places in New York. January is the snowiest month in the 13778 zip code with 19.5 inches of snow, and 6 months of the year have significant snowfall.

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The Hamlet of Coventry

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I was born in 1943, my father was training in tank maneuvers in Kentucky, I believe, if I remember everything correctly, and then he went to war in Germany. Before he More