#T1Green Forest
Carroll County · 3,246 peopleJuly high·January low 26°·41 days of 90°+ a year
Green Forest, #1 on this list · Green Forest Water Tower · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Arkansas rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Arkansas
Green Forest (tied with 1 more) has the coolest summers of Arkansas’ 126 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 88° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 92°; none of the 126 stay under 80°.
The average July high. NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020, from NOAA’s 5 km grid at each town’s center; one town for each grid cell. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#T188°
#T1Huntsville
Madison County · 3,576 peopleJuly high·January low 26°·34 days of 90°+ a year
#3West Fork
Washington County · 2,373 peopleJuly high·January low 27°·40 days of 90°+ a year
All 126 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 116 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Arkansas town has the coolest summers?
Green Forest (Carroll County): July afternoons average a high of 88°. Huntsville (88°) and West Fork (89°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high (the warmest month’s afternoons), lowest first, on NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals, read from its 5 km grid at each town’s center. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T); the figure and the state rank are the ones on each town’s Climate page. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents, one for each of NOAA’s 5 km grid cells (126 in Arkansas): where towns share a cell, one of them stands for it, since the grid gives them the same figures. Every town’s own figures are on its Climate page. Every town is on the Arkansas page.
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