Another month lands on another 10-warmest list in the temperature record of Berks County, now in its 129th year.<\/p>\n
April was driven by \u201cfive consecutive days with highs of at least 80 from the 13th through 17th and included a very early first 90 temperature, 91 on 16th,\u201d says Jeffrey R. Stoudt, a retired meteorologist and Berks weather historian.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther warmth besides these five days included two days that reached the low 80s and two near-miss 79s,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
There were four warm weather date records set \u2014 three highs and one low \u2014 on the 4th, 15th, 16th and 17th.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe old record on the 4th was quite weak,\u201d Stoudt said. \u201cThe new record of 82 is still weak compared to record highs on surrounding dates.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 91-degree 16th was the second earliest 90-degree day in the database. A 90 was recorded on April 14, 1941. Had that 91 occurred a day later, it would not have been a record.<\/p>\n
A blast of heat 50 years ago set records for the 17th through the 20th, with temperatures in the mid-90s in 1976. It was the hottest readings in a year that turned out to be among the coldest 10 on record.<\/p>\n
In the end last month, the average of 57.2 degrees ties for third warmest April with 1921. It might have made a run for No. 1 but there was significant offsetting chilliness, with 10 days averaging below normal, and one of them a record.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the likelihood of the low of 29 on the 8th surviving as the month\u2019s coldest, a strong later cold snap produced another low of 29 on the 21st,\u201d Stoudt said. The latter was a record.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe three days with lows at or below 32 is typical,\u201d he added. \u201cHowever, no really cold daily highs occurred, the coolest of which was 52 on the 7th. Therefore, late wintry cold days were absent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, five of the 10 warmest Aprils have occurred since 2010. For Marches, seven of the warmest 11 on record in Berks have occurred since 2010.<\/p>\n
With May and June the trend is not so dominant, with only two of the 10 warmest of those respective months having occurred since 2010. In May those are No.(s) 2 and 3 and for June No.(s) 2 and 5.<\/p>\n
Even with all these warm months in the 21st century, at the top of lists from March through June are entries from the mild midcentury from 1945, 1941, 1944 and 1943, respectively.<\/p>\n
March 2026 was sixth warmest March in the database. There was not as many days of offsetting cold that month as in April, and most of those days were not as far below normal as days in April.<\/p>\n
Back to April, Stoudt says the third through 10th warmest Aprils are packed in the narrow range of 57.2 and 56.2 degrees.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, precipitation was unremarkable, with a moderately subnormal total of 2.52 inches.<\/p>\n
Rain was fairly well distributed during the month, precluded really long dry spells, and included four moderate daily amounts in the narrow range of 0.48 and 0.56 inch, favorable for early spring growth, Stoudt said.<\/p>\n
Small hail, up to 0.33 inch diameter, large pea-size, briefly pelted parts of the Reading area late afternoon of the 19th, but with no thunder, he added.<\/p>\n
April weather in Berks<\/p>\n
\u2022 Temperature: 57.2 degrees<\/p>\n
\u2022 Normal: 52.5 degrees<\/p>\n
\u2022 Precipitation: 2.52 inches<\/p>\n
\u2022 Normal: 3.35 inches<\/p>\n
Records:<\/p>\n
Warmest high: 82 on the 4th (81, 1921); 89 on the 15th (86, 1941); 91 on the 16th (90, 2012)<\/p>\n
Warmest low: 61 degrees on the 17th (tie, 2002)<\/p>\n
Coldest low: 29 on the 21st (tie, 1981 and 2018)<\/p>\n
90-degree days: 1 (First of 2026)<\/p>\n
10 warmest Aprils by average temperature<\/p>\n
58.4 degrees: 1941<\/p>\n
57.9: 2017<\/p>\n
57.2: 2026<\/p>\n
57.2: 1921<\/p>\n
57.1: 1960<\/p>\n
56.7: 2023<\/p>\n
56.4: 1915<\/p>\n
56.4: 2019<\/p>\n
56.3: 1954<\/p>\n
56.2: 2010<\/p>\n
Source: National Weather Service<\/p>\n
Rainfall amounts from the Berks Area Rainfall Networks in inches:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Hamburg, 3.54<\/p>\n
\u2022 Shartlesville 3.44<\/p>\n
\u2022 Auburn, 3.28<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dryville, 3.1<\/p>\n
\u2022 Topton, 3.06<\/p>\n
\u2022 Oley Furnace, 3.03<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lobachsville, 3.01<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wernersville, 3<\/p>\n
\u2022 Henningsville, 2.99<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bernville, 2.98<\/p>\n
\u2022 Muhlenberg Park, 2.96<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cornwall Terrace, 2.95<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mohrsville SW, 2.93<\/p>\n
\u2022 Strausstown, 2.93<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mohrsville, 2.91<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lincoln Park, 2.9<\/p>\n
\u2022 Boyers Junction, 2.82<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bechtelsville NW, 2.8<\/p>\n
\u2022 Reading E, 2.8<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cacoosing, 2.78<\/p>\n
\u2022 Shillington, 2.78<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mohnton, 2.72<\/p>\n
\u2022 West Reading, 2.66<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bechtelsville, 2.64<\/p>\n
\u2022 Boyertown, 2.59<\/p>\n
\u2022 Womelsdorf, 2.56<\/p>\n
\u2022 Greenfields, 2.49<\/p>\n
\u2022 Birdsboro, 2.46<\/p>\n
\u2022 Knauers, 2.32<\/p>\n
\u2022 Elverson NE, 2.3<\/p>\n
\u2022 Morgantown, 2.24<\/p>\n
\u2022 Frystown, 2.21<\/p>\n
\u2022 New Morgan, 2.17<\/p>\n
\u2022 Reiffton, 2.16<\/p>\n
\u2022 Quaker Hill, 1.8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another month lands on another 10-warmest list in the temperature record of Berks County, now in its 129th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706,1133],"class_list":["post-184254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184254","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=184254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}