{"id":158914,"date":"2026-04-06T23:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:01:15","slug":"coldest-aprils-in-pennsylvania-since-1895-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158914\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldest Aprils in Pennsylvania since 1895 | Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775516474_281_pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/croppedshutterstock2737441967EIJCjpg.JPEG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100%\"\/>yul38885 \/\/ ShutterstockColdest Aprils in Pennsylvania since 1895<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stacker.com\/pennsylvania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a ranking of the coldest Aprils in Pennsylvania since 1895 using data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/climate-at-a-glance\/statewide\/time-series\/36\/tavg\/all\/5\/1895-2026?base_prd=true&amp;begbaseyear=1901&amp;endbaseyear=2000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Centers for Environmental Information<\/a>. Rankings are based on the lowest average temperature in each month. For each of the coldest months listed below, we&#8217;ve included the average state temperature, state-wide highs and lows for the month, and the total precipitation.<\/p>\n<p>#10. April 1928<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 43.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 54.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 32.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 5.61&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#9. April 2018<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 43.2\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 53.8\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 32.7\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 4.17&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#8. April 1940<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 42.7\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 53.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 32\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 5.27&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#7. April 1904<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 42.6\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 52.2\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 32.9\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 3.58&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#6. April 1950<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 42.5\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 53.7\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 31.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 2.69&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#5. April 1961<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 42.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 51.5\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 33.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 5.59&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#4. April 1926<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 42.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 53.8\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 30.8\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 2.16&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#3. April 1975<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 41.5\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 52.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 30.6\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 2.54&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#2. April 1907<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 41.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 51.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 31.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 2.6&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>#1. April 1943<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Average temperature: 40.9\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 52.5\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 29.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Total precipitation: 3.98&#8243;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"yul38885 \/\/ ShutterstockColdest Aprils in Pennsylvania since 1895 Stacker compiled a ranking of the coldest Aprils in Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3576,5781,9787,9786,5783,1131,5780,28,30,29,5782],"class_list":{"0":"post-158914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-atmosphere","9":"tag-climate","10":"tag-climate-of-europe","11":"tag-climate-of-north-america","12":"tag-earth-sciences","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-natural-environment","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","17":"tag-pennsylvania-news","18":"tag-physical-geography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}