{"id":172363,"date":"2026-04-22T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:59:11","slug":"record-cold-in-lehigh-valley-but-temperatures-to-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172363\/","title":{"rendered":"Record cold in Lehigh Valley, but temperatures to warm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low temperatures broke records Tuesday in the Lehigh Valley after a cold front came through the region.<\/p>\n<p>A low of 24 was set at Lehigh Valley International Airport in the early morning, which breaks the record for April 21 of 28 set in 1923, and tied in 1956 and 2018, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/20\/freeze-warning-issued-tuesday-for-the-lehigh-valley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A freeze warning was issued for the region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cold spell will be short-lived,  with temperatures returning to normal over the next few days. Highs will be in the 50s Tuesday, but will reach into the 60s and 70s through the rest of the week, forecasters said.<\/p>\n<p>Another cold front is expected over the weekend and will drop highs into the 50s. Rain is also likely Friday night and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of rainfall, the next low pressure over the weekend has the potential for widespread showers or a period of rain,\u201d meteorologists wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=PHI&amp;issuedby=PHI&amp;product=AFD&amp;format=CI&amp;version=1&amp;glossary=1&amp;highlight=off\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday in their daily forecast discussion<\/a>. \u201cThe strength and timing of the involved features for the weekend however is lower confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any rain that falls would be beneficial. Both Lehigh and Northampton counties are under drought conditions, <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Northeast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a possibility of showers Wednesday morning as well. Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday: Showers likely, mainly before 8 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 69.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. Chance of precipitation is 70%.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 59. Chance of precipitation is 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Low temperatures broke records Tuesday in the Lehigh Valley after a cold front came through the region. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-172363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172363","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=172363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}