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This weather has a price Keeping the median Hyde County home comfortable runs roughly $522 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Hyde County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

86.0°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 6.6°F.

Hyde County gets 22.76" of precipitation a year and 40" of snow, and 47% of it falls in May, Jun, Jul.

Temperature through the year

Each bar spans the average daily low to the average daily high for that month.

20° 40° 60° 80° JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
MonthAvg highAvg low PrecipSnow
January 26.6° 6.6° 0.36" 6.7"
February 31.7° 10.6° 0.62" 9.5"
March 44.4° 21.7° 1.07" 5.8"
April 58.6° 32.3° 2.52" 4.8"
May 69.7° 43.8° 3.69" 0.0"
June 79.0° 54.7° 4.03" 0.0"
July 86.0° 60.3° 2.97" 0.0"
August 84.6° 58.5° 2.60" 0.0"
September 76.7° 49.5° 2.02" 0.0"
October 60.6° 36.1° 1.86" 1.3"
November 43.8° 22.4° 0.55" 5.5"
December 30.5° 11.6° 0.47" 6.4"

Rainfall by month

Hyde County has a distinct wet season. 47% of the year's precipitation arrives in May, Jun, Jul.

January 0.36"
February 0.62"
March 1.07"
April 2.52"
May 3.69"
June 4.03"
July 2.97"
August 2.60"
September 2.02"
October 1.86"
November 0.55"
December 0.47"
Annual total 22.76"

What this climate costs you

Degree days measure how hard a building has to work to stay comfortable. They are the reason two identical houses have very different power bills, and they are the link between the weather here and what you pay every month.

Cooling degree days How much air conditioning the climate demands 718
Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 7,661
Approximate annual cooling cost At 15.36¢/kWh, South Dakota average $110
Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $412

These are rough planning figures from degree days and the state electricity price, not a bill estimate. House size, insulation and fuel type move them a lot. See the full cost of owning a home in Hyde County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Hyde County?

Hyde County averages a high of 86.0°F in July and a low of 6.6°F in January. Annual precipitation is 22.76 inches, including 40 inches of snow.

When is the rainy season in Hyde County?

The wettest stretch is May, Jun, Jul, which accounts for 47% of the year's precipitation. That is a pronounced wet season rather than rain spread evenly through the year.

How hot does it get in Hyde County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 86.0°F. That drives 718 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Hyde County?

Yes. Hyde County averages 40 inches of snow a year.

Sources

  • Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station HIGHMORE 1 W, SD US (USC00393832), 1.4 miles from the county centroid.
  • Heating and cooling degree days: NOAA, same station and period.
  • Annual figures on this page are the sum of that station's twelve monthly normals. NOAA also publishes a separately-computed annual normal, which can differ from the monthly sum by a few percent; we use the monthly series because the month-by-month breakdown above has to come from it.
  • Electricity price: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, South Dakota residential average.
  • Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.