Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Shickshinny, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Benton 3 NE, PA, 8 miles northwest of Shickshinny at 1,095 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 80°F and low of 58°F; January is the coolest, at 33°F and 16°F. September is the wettest at 4.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 48.6 inches over 85 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (26.7 of 48.6 inches); the other six months are drier. August has brought the most of the 15 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (7); a normal August there has highs of 78°F and 4.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 145 nights a year. Snowfall averages 46.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 48.6 inches is more than at 120 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (81%). Nanticoke, 10 miles east, has its own station (Wilkes-Barre International Airport, PA): 39.0 inches a year, 9.6 less than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 80°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 135 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Shickshinny: 114 thunderstorm wind reports, 19 flash floods and 2 floods. They killed 0 people and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $3.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on June 26, 2024. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 321 have had fewer than Shickshinny.

Flood insurance policyholders in Shickshinny's ZIP code 18655 have filed 568 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $11.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Lee in 2011: 123 claims (22% of all) and $7.0 million, then Flooding in 1996 with 81 and Tropical Storm Ivan in 2004 with 79. 51% 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, 534 have fewer than Shickshinny.