Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Yardley, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Trenton State College, NJ, 4 miles north of Yardley at 100 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 65°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 23°F. July is the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 47.3 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (25.1 of 47.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (17); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 24 days a year, almost all from May to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 109 nights a year. That 47.3 inches is more than at 106 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (72%). Fairless Hills, 3 miles southwest, has its own station (Neshaminy Falls, PA): 50.8 inches a year, 3.5 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Newbold, PA, 6 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, 26 miles from Yardley, 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 528 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Yardley: 362 thunderstorm wind reports, 63 flash floods, 55 floods, 27 lightning strikes and 21 heavy rain events. They killed 11 people and injured 21, and the NWS estimated $65.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 79 mph, on October 4, 2000. July has had the most flash floods, 22 of 63. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 564 have had fewer than Yardley.

Flood insurance policyholders in Yardley's ZIP code 19067 have filed 999 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $29.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Ivan in 2004: 108 claims (11% of all) and $5.2 million, then Tropical Storm Lee in 2011 with 82 and Torrential rain in 2005 with 73. The year with the most claims was 2005, with 255. 37% 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, 546 have fewer than Yardley.