January Weather at Hettinger Municipal Airport United States

Daily high temperatures increase by 3°F, from 27°F to 30°F, rarely falling below 4°F or exceeding 47°F. The lowest daily average high temperature is 27°F on January 2.

Daily low temperatures increase by 3°F, from 8°F to 10°F, rarely falling below -14°F or exceeding 28°F. The lowest daily average low temperature is 8°F on January 2.

For reference, on July 23, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Hettinger Municipal Airport typically range from 58°F to 85°F, while on January 2, the coldest day of the year, they range from 8°F to 27°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on January. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

T’alin, Armenia (6,126 miles away) and Bayzhansay, Kazakhstan (6,265 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Hettinger Municipal Airport (view comparison).

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The month of January at Hettinger Municipal Airport experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 55% throughout the month. The highest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 56% on January 18.

The clearest day of the month is January 28, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 45% of the time.

For reference, on March 14, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 57%, while on July 22, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 75%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Hettinger Municipal Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of January is essentially constant, remaining around 3% throughout.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 35% on June 8, and its lowest chance is 3% on January 22.

Snowfall

As with rainfall, we consider the snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day snowfall during January at Hettinger Municipal Airport is gradually decreasing, starting the month at 1.5 inches, when it rarely exceeds 4.5 inches, and ending the month at 1.1 inches, when it rarely exceeds 2.9 inches or falls below -0.0 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 1.1 inches on January 30.

Over the course of January at Hettinger Municipal Airport, the length of the day is increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 56 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 1 minute, 53 seconds, and weekly increase of 13 minutes, 10 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is January 1, with 8 hours, 43 minutes of daylight and the longest day is January 31, with 9 hours, 39 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the month at Hettinger Municipal Airport is 7:32 AM on January 2 and the earliest sunrise is 18 minutes earlier at 7:14 AM on January 31.

The earliest sunset is 4:15 PM on January 1 and the latest sunset is 38 minutes later at 4:54 PM on January 31.

Daylight saving time is observed at Hettinger Municipal Airport during 2024, but it neither starts nor ends during January, so the entire month is in daylight saving time.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 4:59 AM and sets 15 hours, 45 minutes later, at 8:45 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:29 AM and sets 8 hours, 38 minutes later, at 4:08 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for January 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Hettinger Municipal Airport is essentially constant during January, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 16, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 6% of the time, while on September 24, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Hettinger Municipal Airport is essentially constant during January, remaining within 0.1 miles per hour of 13.1 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on January 18, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 13.2 miles per hour, while on July 29, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 9.9 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during January is 13.2 miles per hour on January 18.

The hourly average wind direction at Hettinger Municipal Airport throughout January is predominantly from the west, with a peak proportion of 53% on January 3.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Hettinger Municipal Airport typically lasts for 4.2 months (130 days), from around May 15 to around September 22, rarely starting before April 28 or after June 6, and rarely ending before September 5 or after October 13.

The month of January at Hettinger Municipal Airport is reliably fully outside of the growing season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Hettinger Municipal Airport are essentially constant during January, remaining around 1°F throughout.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Hettinger Municipal Airport is gradually increasing during January, rising by 0.7 kWh, from 1.5 kWh to 2.2 kWh, over the course of the month.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Hettinger Municipal Airport are 46.014 deg latitude, -102.654 deg longitude, and 2,703 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Hettinger Municipal Airport contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 240 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 2,726 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (627 feet). Within 50 miles contains significant variations in elevation (1,644 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Hettinger Municipal Airport is covered by grassland (88%) and cropland (12%), within 10 miles by grassland (84%) and cropland (16%), and within 50 miles by grassland (73%) and cropland (27%).