Climate averages 1991–2020

Meads weather
in January.

A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 5.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -2.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 90 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Meads: daytime highs average 5.8°C and nights cool to about -2.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 49 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lexington (162 km away). In January its highs average 5.3°C, 0.6°C cooler than Meads, with 93 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Meads ranks 307th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 352nd of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Meads is 3.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 8.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 91 mm.

The annual picture

January 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, selected	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	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

January 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.