Mason County Topography and Climate

As I write this post it’s unseasonably Cold outside. For the past several days it has been 7 degrees in LakeLand Village, where I reside.

Visitors to our community often come into our office and ask about the Climate. So I thought a good topic for this post would be a “Mason County Topography and Climate Report”.

Mason County, Washington covers a total of 1,051 square miles, ranking 30th in size among the State’s 39 counties. The County has over 230 Lakes and extensive salt water areas. There is approximately 961 square miles of land for residents.

Elevations are from sea-level, with salt water frontage along Hood Canal, Case Inlet and Totten Inlet, to over 6,000 feet in the Olympic National Park.

With such a wide elevation range, rainfall varies widely and averages slightly over 60 inches per year in the county seat of Shelton which lies at sea-level. Temperatures average 32 degrees in January and averages 78 degrees in July.

 

 

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