Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Wyalusing, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Towanda 1 S, PA, 9 miles west of Wyalusing at 760 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 59°F; January is the coolest, at 35°F and 17°F. July is the wettest at 4.0 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 1.9 inches; the year adds up to 38.7 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 56% of the year's precipitation (21.7 of 38.7 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 11 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (5); a normal October there has highs of 63°F and 3.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 11 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 143 nights a year. Snowfall averages 37.8 inches a year, most of it in January. That 38.7 inches is more than at 8 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (5%). Laceyville, 8 miles southeast, has its own station (Dushore, PA): 43.5 inches a year, 4.8 more than here, and a July average high of 80°F against 84°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 84 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Wyalusing: 62 thunderstorm wind reports, 18 flash floods and 4 floods. They killed 1 person and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $8.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 28, 2011. August has had the most flash floods, 4 of 18. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 313 have had fewer than Wyalusing.

Flood insurance policyholders in Wyalusing's ZIP code 18853 have filed 107 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $2.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Lee in 2011: 23 claims (21% of all) and $1.2 million, then Flooding in 1996 with 19 and Tropical Storm Ivan in 2004 with 14. 52% 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, 388 have fewer than Wyalusing.