United States · 1991–2020 normal

Lake Placid in
January.

Typical January weather in Lake Placid: -2.8°C by day, -14.4°C at night, 80 mm of rain over 14.4 wet days. These are measured 1991–2020 station normals, not a forecast.

Typical high-2.8°C
Typical low-14.4°C
Rain80 mm
Wet days14.4

Comfort score 5 this month (August leads the year at 75). Daylight is calculated as 9 h 12 from latitude 44.28°.

Event window

Frost-level nights in January

The measured night-time normal is -14.4°C, so frost is typical rather than exceptional this month.

The evidence behind this page

One month,
from the same station.

Place identity
GeoNames 5123831
NOAA station
USC00304555 · LAKE PLACID 2 S
Station distance
2.7 km from the place centre
Coverage
Good coverage · 24 usable years
Important limit
Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

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