This weather has a price Keeping the median Nicholas County home comfortable runs roughly $407 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Nicholas County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

81.4°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 20.7°F.

Nicholas County gets 49.75" of precipitation a year, and 33% 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.

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Precip
January	40.5°	20.7°	3.48"
February	44.2°	22.6°	3.11"
March	51.9°	28.6°	4.27"
April	64.9°	38.1°	4.18"
May	72.3°	48.2°	5.26"
June	78.4°	56.7°	5.19"
July	81.4°	60.7°	5.85"
August	80.4°	59.2°	4.16"
September	75.5°	52.7°	3.83"
October	64.9°	41.4°	3.25"
November	53.7°	31.7°	3.28"
December	44.6°	25.5°	3.89"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 33% falling in the wettest three months (May, Jun, Jul).

January 3.48"

February 3.11"

March 4.27"

April 4.18"

May 5.26"

June 5.19"

July 5.85"

August 4.16"

September 3.83"

October 3.25"

November 3.28"

December 3.89"

Annual total 49.75"

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 593

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 5,443

Approximate annual cooling cost At 16.31¢/kWh, West Virginia average $97

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $311

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 Nicholas County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Nicholas County?

Nicholas County averages a high of 81.4°F in July and a low of 20.7°F in January. Annual precipitation is 49.75 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Nicholas County?

The wettest stretch is May, Jun, Jul, which accounts for 33% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Nicholas County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 81.4°F. That drives 593 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Nicholas County?

The weather station used for Nicholas County, SUMMERSVILLE LAKE, WV US, reports temperature and precipitation but not snowfall, so there is no snow normal to quote here. Precipitation that falls as snow is still counted in the 49.75 inches above, measured as melted water.

Sources

Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station SUMMERSVILLE LAKE, WV US (USC00468614), 7.2 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, West Virginia residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.