Climate averages 1991–2020

Meads weather
in August.

A hot, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 29.2°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 19.8°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 84 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a hot month in Meads: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 19.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lexington (162 km away). In August its highs average 29.1°C, about as warm as Meads, with 79 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Meads ranks joint 278th of 498 for the warmest August highs and joint 283rd of 498 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 498 cities is 29.9°C; Meads is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 25.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 84 mm to 91 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Meads climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Meads, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.8°C-2.5°C	-2.5°C	90	10.7	9.810 h
February	8.0°C-1.3°C	-1.3°C	91	10.3	10.711 h
March	13.0°C2.7°C	2.7°C	110	12.3	11.912 h
April	19.1°C8.3°C	8.3°C	108	12.4	13.213 h
May	23.2°C13.5°C	13.5°C	119	12.8	14.214 h
June	27.7°C18.2°C	18.2°C	113	13.4	14.815 h
July	29.6°C20.4°C	20.4°C	109	13.2	14.615 h
August, selected	29.2°C19.8°C	19.8°C	84	11.6	13.714 h
September	25.9°C16.3°C	16.3°C	91	8.5	12.512 h
October	19.8°C10.2°C	10.2°C	80	8.8	11.211 h
November	13.0°C4.2°C	4.2°C	85	9.0	10.110 h
December	7.7°C0.1°C	0.1°C	95	10.3	9.510 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

August in nearby cities

Distance from Meads

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Meads) is explained once on the Meads year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.