Summer Weather in Watrous Canada

Daily high temperatures are around 73°F, rarely falling below 57°F or exceeding 88°F. The highest daily average high temperature is 77°F on July 27.

Daily low temperatures are around 50°F, rarely falling below 37°F or exceeding 61°F. The highest daily average low temperature is 54°F on July 23.

For reference, on July 26, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Watrous typically range from 53°F to 77°F, while on January 5, the coldest day of the year, they range from -4°F to 14°F.

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

Karagandy, Kazakhstan (5,429 miles away) and Novokuznetsk, Russia (5,122 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Watrous (view comparison).

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The summer in Watrous experiences decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 51% to 39%. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 31% on July 29.

The clearest day of the summer is July 29, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 69% of the time.

For reference, on February 20, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 71%, while on July 29, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 69%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Watrous, the chance of a wet day over the course of the summer is rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 25% and ending it at 18%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 30% on June 22, and its lowest chance is 5% on February 16.

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 summer in Watrous is decreasing, starting the season at 2.0 inches, when it rarely exceeds 3.7 inches or falls below 0.5 inches, and ending the season at 1.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 2.7 inches or falls below 0.3 inches.

The highest average 31-day accumulation is 2.3 inches on June 19.

Over the course of the summer in Watrous, the length of the day is very rapidly decreasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day decreases by 2 hours, 47 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 50 seconds, and weekly decrease of 12 minutes, 50 seconds.

The shortest day of the summer is August 31, with 13 hours, 35 minutes of daylight and the longest day is June 20, with 16 hours, 40 minutes of daylight.

The earliest sunrise of the summer in Watrous is 4:43 AM on June 16 and the latest sunrise is 1 hour, 31 minutes later at 6:13 AM on August 31.

The latest sunset is 9:24 PM on June 24 and the earliest sunset is 1 hour, 35 minutes earlier at 7:49 PM on August 31.

Daylight saving time is not observed in Watrous during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 4:43 AM and sets 16 hours, 40 minutes later, at 9:23 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 9:06 AM and sets 7 hours, 48 minutes later, at 4:54 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 summer 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 Watrous is essentially constant during the summer, remaining within 3% of 3% throughout.

The highest chance of a muggy day during the summer is 6% on July 20.

For reference, on July 20, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 6% of the time, while on January 1, 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 in Watrous is gradually decreasing during the summer, decreasing from 10.7 miles per hour to 10.2 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on March 30, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 12.0 miles per hour, while on August 2, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 9.3 miles per hour.

The lowest daily average wind speed during the summer is 9.3 miles per hour on August 2.

The wind direction in Watrous during the summer is predominantly out of the east from June 1 to June 2, the south from June 2 to June 4, and the west from June 4 to August 31.

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 Watrous typically lasts for 3.9 months (121 days), from around May 17 to around September 15, rarely starting before May 2 or after June 2, and rarely ending before August 27 or after October 1.

The summer in Watrous is more likely than not fully within the growing season, with the chance that a given day is in the growing season reaching a high of 100% on July 4.

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 Watrous are very rapidly increasing during the summer, increasing by 1,161°F, from 244°F to 1,405°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 Watrous is decreasing during the summer, falling by 1.4 kWh, from 6.4 kWh to 5.0 kWh, over the course of the season.

The highest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during the summer is 6.8 kWh on July 10.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Watrous are 51.667 deg latitude, -105.468 deg longitude, and 1,775 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Watrous is essentially flat, with a maximum elevation change of 66 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 1,779 feet. Within 10 miles is essentially flat (374 feet). Within 50 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (712 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Watrous is covered by cropland (93%), within 10 miles by cropland (89%), and within 50 miles by cropland (93%).