What is the hottest month in Cowles?

July is the warmest month in Cowles, with an average high of 90.5°F.

What is the coldest month in Cowles?

January is the coldest month in Cowles, with an average low of 12.5°F.

What month does Cowles get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in Cowles, with about 4.19 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Cowles in?

Cowles is approximately in USDA plant hardiness Zone 6b, based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature.

Has the climate in Cowles changed recently?

12.3% of Cowles's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (since 2015), compared to roughly 5% if records were evenly distributed over time.

Cowles, NE

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from RED CLOUD, NE US.

Dfa Hot-summer humid continental climate 6b USDA hardiness Zone 6b

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Cowles has an annual average temperature of 50.9°F with about 25.5 inches of precipitation per year and 18.6 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 90.5°F), and the coldest is January (average low 12.5°F). May is typically the wettest month (4.19 in) and January the driest (0.52 in). Snow typically falls from October through April.

Annual swing

52.3°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

5,949

HDD/yr

Cooling need

891

CDD/yr

Best time to visit Cowles

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

45 of 366 (12.3%) of Cowles's all-time daily heat records have been set since 2015. If records were spread evenly across the station's history, only about 5% would fall in any given decade.

1890s		0
1900s		22
1910s		32
1920s		27
1930s		73
1940s		29
1950s		27
1960s		17
1970s		19
1980s		21
1990s		20
2000s		18
2010s		36
2020s		25

Bars: number of all-time daily heat records still standing that were set in each decade.

Monthly averages

Month	Avg High	Avg Low	Avg Temp	Precipitation	Snow	Rainy days
January	37.3°F	12.5°F	24.9°F	0.52 in	4.9 in	3
February	41.8°F	15.6°F	28.7°F	0.65 in	5.6 in	3
March	53.6°F	25.1°F	39.4°F	1.25 in	2.4 in	4
April	64.2°F	35.4°F	49.8°F	2.22 in	0.8 in	6
May	74.1°F	47.4°F	60.8°F	4.19 in	—	9
June	85.6°F	58.8°F	72.2°F	3.61 in	—	9
July	90.5°F	64.0°F	77.2°F	3.88 in	—	8
August	87.9°F	61.4°F	74.7°F	3.38 in	—	7
September	80.2°F	51.1°F	65.6°F	1.96 in	—	5
October	66.8°F	37.3°F	52.1°F	1.98 in	0.8 in	5
November	52.2°F	24.5°F	38.3°F	1.11 in	1.1 in	4
December	40.0°F	15.4°F	27.7°F	0.71 in	3.0 in	3