On occasion, however, some weather situations may persist for several days to a week or more. Variations in seasonal weather from year to year is a characteristic of the climate. During the cold season which extends from November through most of March, temperatures vary widely from day to day but the range within a 24 hour period is normally smaller than at any other time of the year. Several frigid outbreaks of a few days to a week or more in duration can be expected during the December through February period. Such occasions may bring near to well below zero temperatures.
Summers are pleasantly warm but occasionally become quite humid.
A combination of uncomfortably high temperature and humidity is likely for one or more periods of up to a week or more at a time during the summer months. Spring and fall are the transition seasons when temperatures flunctuate widely from day to day and the diurnal range is broad. The first sign of approaching colder weather in fall usually become apparent by mid to late September. The freeze free or growing season averages 145 days and ranges from 106 to 183 days. Monthly amounts of 7 to 11 inches have been recorded in all but the winter months.