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Stacker<\/a> compiled a ranking of the coldest Augusts in Pennsylvania since 1895 using data from the 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’ve included the average state temperature, state-wide highs and lows for the month, and the total precipitation.<\/p>\n

#10. August 1921 (tie)
– Average temperature: 65.8\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 77.7\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 54\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 3.77″<\/p>\n

#10. August 1907 (tie)
– Average temperature: 65.8\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 77.5\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 54\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 2.56″<\/p>\n

#10. August 1897 (tie)
– Average temperature: 65.8\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 77.2\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 54.4\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 3.23″<\/p>\n

#9. August 1903
– Average temperature: 65.7\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 75.2\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 56.1\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 5.65″<\/p>\n

#8. August 1963
– Average temperature: 65.5\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 77.5\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 53.5\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 2.67″<\/p>\n

#7. August 1992
– Average temperature: 65.4\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 76.1\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 54.6\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 3.58″<\/p>\n

#4. August 1964 (tie)
– Average temperature: 65.3\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 77.4\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 53.2\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 3.06″<\/p>\n

#4. August 1929 (tie)
– Average temperature: 65.3\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 78.3\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 52.3\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 2.37″<\/p>\n

#4. August 1912 (tie)
– Average temperature: 65.3\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 75.5\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 55.1\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 4.59″<\/p>\n

#3. August 1982
– Average temperature: 65.1\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 76.9\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 53.2\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 2.82″<\/p>\n

#2. August 1946
– Average temperature: 64.5\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 75.6\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 53.4\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 3.96″<\/p>\n

#1. August 1927
– Average temperature: 63.2\u00b0F
– Monthly high temperature: 73.9\u00b0F
– Monthly low temperature: 52.4\u00b0F
– Total precipitation: 3.73″<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stacker compiled a ranking of the coldest Augusts in Pennsylvania since 1895 using data from the National Centers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,43074],"class_list":["post-262997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-stacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262997","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=262997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}