Spring Weather in Century United States

Daily high temperatures increase by 19°F, from 69°F to 88°F, rarely falling below 57°F or exceeding 94°F.

Daily low temperatures increase by 20°F, from 47°F to 67°F, rarely falling below 32°F or exceeding 72°F.

For reference, on July 22, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Century typically range from 72°F to 92°F, while on January 29, the coldest day of the year, they range from 40°F to 62°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average spring temperatures. 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.

Pocito, Argentina (4,504 miles away); Al Quwayrah, Jordan (6,801 miles); and Katra, India (7,876 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Century (view comparison).

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The spring in Century experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 42% throughout the season. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 38% on April 22.

The clearest day of the spring is April 22, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 62% of the time.

For reference, on July 8, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 56%, while on October 26, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 67%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Century, the chance of a wet day over the course of the spring is rapidly increasing, starting the season at 32% and ending it at 39%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 61% on July 17, and its lowest chance is 20% on October 14.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the spring in Century is decreasing, starting the season at 5.3 inches, when it rarely exceeds 8.6 inches or falls below 2.3 inches, and ending the season at 4.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 7.4 inches or falls below 1.5 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 3.9 inches on May 7.

Over the course of the spring in Century, the length of the day is very rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 2 hours, 28 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 1 minute, 38 seconds, and weekly increase of 11 minutes, 25 seconds.

The shortest day of the spring is March 1, with 11 hours, 33 minutes of daylight and the longest day is May 31, with 14 hours, 1 minute of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the spring in Century is 7:04 AM on March 10 and the earliest sunrise is 1 hour, 18 minutes earlier at 5:46 AM on May 31.

The earliest sunset is 5:47 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 2 hours, 0 minutes later at 7:47 PM on May 31.

Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 3:00 AM on March 10, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:46 AM and sets 14 hours, 10 minutes later, at 7:55 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 6:43 AM and sets 10 hours, 8 minutes later, at 4:51 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 the spring of 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 in Century is very rapidly increasing during the spring, rising from 5% to 68% over the course of the season.

For reference, on July 22, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 97% of the time, while on January 29, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 3% 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 in Century is decreasing during the spring, decreasing from 5.7 miles per hour to 4.4 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on February 25, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.7 miles per hour, while on August 7, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 3.6 miles per hour.

The hourly average wind direction in Century throughout the spring is predominantly from the south, with a peak proportion of 45% on May 20.

Century is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.

The average surface water temperature in Century is very rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 16°F, from 63°F to 78°F, over the course of the season.

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 in Century typically lasts for 8.2 months (252 days), from around March 10 to around November 16, rarely starting before February 11 or after April 2, and rarely ending before October 26 or after December 7.

During the spring in Century, the chance that a given day is within the growing season is very rapidly increasing rising from 36% to 100% over the course of the 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 in Century are very rapidly increasing during the spring, increasing by 1,545°F, from 346°F to 1,892°F, over the course of the season.

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 in Century is rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 1.9 kWh, from 4.6 kWh to 6.5 kWh, over the course of the season.

The highest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during the spring is 6.6 kWh on May 18.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Century are 30.973 deg latitude, -87.264 deg longitude, and 85 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Century contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 174 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 85 feet. Within 10 miles also contains only modest variations in elevation (279 feet). Within 50 miles also contains only modest variations in elevation (420 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Century is covered by trees (44%), artificial surfaces (30%), cropland (14%), and herbaceous vegetation (12%), within 10 miles by trees (54%) and cropland (35%), and within 50 miles by trees (63%) and cropland (17%).