Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit New Hope, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Lambertville, NJ, 3 miles east of New Hope at 68 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 19°F. July is the wettest at 5.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.9 inches; the year adds up to 50.4 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (26.8 of 50.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 35 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (14); a normal September there has highs of 80°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 30 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 136 nights a year. Snowfall averages 13.4 inches a year, most of it in January. That 50.4 inches is more than at 131 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (89%). Furlong, 6 miles southwest, has its own station (Doylestown Airport, PA): 48.0 inches a year, 2.4 less than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 88°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Newbold, PA, 20 miles southeast, averaged 80°F in July and 37°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July. Sea level at the Philadelphia tide gauge, 30 miles from New Hope, has risen 1.24 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1900 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 73 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 253 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of New Hope: 190 thunderstorm wind reports, 36 flash floods, 12 lightning strikes, 10 floods and 5 heavy rain events. They killed 11 people and injured 10, and the NWS estimated $80.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on October 31, 2019. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 456 have had fewer than New Hope.

Flood insurance policyholders in New Hope's ZIP code 18938 have filed 532 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $20.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Ivan in 2004: 71 claims (13% of all) and $4.2 million, then Tropical Storm Lee in 2011 with 45 and Hurricane Ida in 2021 with 36. The year with the most claims was 2006, with 132. 48% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 553 Pennsylvania cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 531 have fewer than New Hope.