Climate Minden has a cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with huge diurnal temperature variations during all seasons. Summers are hot to very hot during the day, with 68.5 afternoons topping and 5.7 afternoons getting over ; however, mornings even in summer are very cool to cold and between June and August. On average, 1.2 mornings will fall under freezing. Rainfall is very rare during the summer as the monsoon practically never reaches this far north: in July more than four years in ten record no measurable precipitation and only one in twenty expects . Winter afternoons are cool and frequently sunny, but mornings are freezing to frigid. Temperatures of or below can be expected on two mornings each winter, although all but 4.7 afternoons each year can be expected to top freezing, whilst during the three winter months 45.9 afternoons will typically top . The hottest temperature on record is on July 6, 2007 and the coldest is , which occurred on January 21, 1916, January 26, 1949 and February 7, 1989. The coldest afternoon was on January 9, 1937 when the temperature did not top and the hottest minimum on August 28 and 29, 1906, June 25, 1927 and August 20, 1931.
Climate Minden has ,a cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with huge diurnal temperature variations during all seasons. Summers are hot to very hot during the day with 68.5 afternoons topping and 5.7 afternoons getting over ; however, mornings even in, summer are very cool to cold and between June and August. On average 1.2 mornings will fall under freezing. Rainfall is very rare during the summer as the monsoon practically never reaches this far north: in July more than four years in ten record no measurable precipitation and only one in twenty expects . Winter afternoons are cool and frequently sunny, but mornings are freezing to frigid. Temperatures of or below can be expected on two mornings each winter, although all but 4.7 afternoons each year can be expected to top freezing, whilst during the three winter months 45.9 afternoons will typically top . The hottest temperature on record is on July 6, 2007 and the coldest is , which occurred on January 21, 1916, January 26, 1949 and February, 7, 1989. The coldest afternoon was on January 9, 1937 when the temperature did not top and the hottest minimum on August 28 and 29, 1906 June 25, 1927 and August 20, 1931.