Pennsylvania State Climate Office

04/23/2020

Penn State news story on the state climatologist, Kyle Imhoff, and services provided to the public.

The Pennsylvania State Climatologist office, located in the Walker Building on the University Park campus, provides the commonwealth with various data, including long-term historical weather observations, hourly averages of weather data, and detailed weather information for several Pennsylvania citi...

08/14/2018

Additionally, if State College has 10 more days with measurable rain this month, it will tie the record for most rainy days in any consecutive 3-month period (53 days). When did this occur? This year! 53 days with measurable rain occurred between Apr 1 and Jun 30 (and in 2003).

08/14/2018

Has it been wet in central PA? Absolutely. In fact, year-to-date, State College has now tied for the most days with measurable rainfall (tie-1956). If at least 9 more days have measurable rainfall this month, it will be tied for the wettest summer on record, as well.

04/27/2018

Month-to-date, State College has had 15 nights where temperatures dropped at or below the freezing mark. This ties for the 3rd most days in the historical record.

04/25/2018

In State College, of the first 25 days of April, 19 have been below average. 9 of those days were 10 degrees F or more below average.

04/18/2018

Last Saturday, State College reached 84 deg F for its afternoon high temperature. In fact, 80 degrees F has only been reached three other times on that date across the period of record - 1896, 1960, and 1967.

04/18/2018

Last Saturday, State College reached 84 deg F for its afternoon high temperature. In fact, 80 degrees F has only been reached three other times across the period of record - 1896, 1960, and 1967.

04/12/2018

This weekend will be very warm, but nowhere near as warm as the all-time record high for Pennsylvania in April- 98°. The record was set in Punxsutawney in 1915 and later tied in Norristown in 1976.

04/11/2018

With parts of PA seeing some light snow accumulations early in the week, past records show that major snowfall events are rare but still can happen in April. In 1928, 17.3" fell in State College in just 24 hours on April 28!

04/11/2018

Snow in April? State College has measured 5.6 inches of snowfall for the first 10 days of April. This is the highest snowfall total for the first ten days of the month in State College since 1982!

04/05/2018

In addition to March being colder than average (31st coldest) in State College, it also ranked 24th driest dating back to 1893.

04/03/2018

Tired of the late season snow? At least it is not April 3rd, 1901 when Pittsburgh received over a foot of snow!