Trevelin ground for long periods of time. Winters are stormy with frequent rain, sleet and snow while summers are cool, windy and relatively dry. Mean annual precipitation is . The precipitation pattern resembles a Mediterranean one, where most (75%) of the precipitation is concentrated from April to August, the cooler months with a dry period from September to March. Snowfall can occur during the colder months while rainfall predominates in warmer months; hail rarely occurs. The mean temperature in Trevelin ranges from in July, the coldest month to in January, the warmest month. Frosts can occur at anytime, even in summer,
Moneta Sleet Jr. assigned to cover her husband's funeral service, she demanded that Sleet be a part of the press pool. If he wasn't, she threatened to bar all photographers from the service. Besides his photo of Coretta Scott King, he also captured grieving widow Betty Shabazz at the funeral of her husband Malcolm X. His collection "Special Moments in African American History: The photographs of Moneta Sleet Jr. 1955-1996" was published posthumously in 1999. Sleet is the father of Gregory M. Sleet, a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Sleet, while a resident of Baldwin, NY,