Friendsville, PA climate
Friendsville has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 79°, a January night drops to 15°, and about 48 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
NOAA 1991-2020 climate normals Updated once a decadeWhat a year in Friendsville feels like
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Friendsville weather by month
Average highs, lows, rain and snow for every month, from NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals.
| Month | High | Low | Rain + melt | Snow | Wet days | Snow on ground | 30-yr range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31° | 15° | 2.9" | 14.0" | 10 | 19 | 13° – 31° |
| February | 33° | 16° | 2.4" | 8.6" | 8 | 13 | 12° – 32° |
| March | 42° | 23° | 3.3" | 11.8" | 11 | 10 | 26° – 45° |
| April | 55° | 34° | 3.8" | 1.9" | 11 | 1 | 39° – 50° |
| May | 67° | 45° | 3.8" | 0 | 11 | 0 | 50° – 61° |
| June | 75° | 54° | 4.6" | 0 | 11 | 0 | 61° – 68° |
| July | 79° | 58° | 4.3" | 0 | 10 | 0 | 64° – 73° |
| August | 77° | 57° | 4.4" | 0 | 9 | 0 | 63° – 70° |
| September | 70° | 50° | 4.3" | 0 | 10 | 0 | 57° – 64° |
| October | 58° | 39° | 4.2" | 0.1" | 8 | 0 | 44° – 55° |
| November | 46° | 30° | 3.2" | 2.6" | 9 | 3 | 33° – 43° |
| December | 35° | 21° | 3.2" | 8.8" | 9 | 11 | 20° – 40° |
| Year | 56° | 37° | 44.3" | 47.8" | 119 | 58 |
“Wet days” have at least 0.01" of rain or melted snow. “Snow on ground” counts days with 1" or more. The 30-year range is the coldest and warmest that month’s average temperature got between 1991 and 2020.
Rain and snow in Friendsville
Friendsville gets 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year. June is the wettest month and February the driest. Rain or snow falls on about 119 days a year. Snow covers the ground about 58 days of the year.
About 141 frost-free days a year
In half of years the last 32° night comes by May 14 and the first one by October 2. That leaves about 141 frost-free days for gardens, shorter than 88% of U.S. towns.
Heating and cooling a home in Friendsville
Engineers use “degree days” to estimate how hard a furnace or air conditioner works. In Friendsville, 96% of that work is heating and 4% is cooling, so the furnace matters far more than the air conditioner.
Degree days measure how far each day’s average temperature falls below or rises above 65°, added up over a year. Source: NOAA station normals.
Friendsville and its neighbors
Friendsville borders 4 towns with climate data. January nights across them vary by 0.9°. Forest Lake has the coldest January nights (15°) and Middletown the hottest July afternoons (80°). Friendsville’s January low is 15° and its July high 79°.
Temperatures and rain come from NOAA’s 5 km grid, so each town gets its own value.