Lincoln Park Weather Bureau -- Berks County, PA -- lpwbpa.com
About LPWB
Lincoln Park Weather Bureau (LPWB) is a weather station in the community of Lincoln Park, located 3.5 miles SW of center city Reading, PA at latitude 40.31625, longitude -75.98866, 320 feet ASL. Lincoln Park is a census-designated place where LPWB is situated, and the Bureau word indicates LPWB is a weather office (bureau) in which data are observed, collected, archived, reported, and analyzed, as well as researching historical local weather and responding to public inquiries, much like the practices at the Reading U.S. Weather Bureau of old. Furthermore, LPWB researches and maintains bookkeeping of official Reading PA area weather data and records.
LPWB began recording precipitation, including snowfall, 1 January 1983 and then temperatures 1 June 1984, followed by continuous daily observations at this same location till the present day. The LPWB environment has changed little during all these years, which is a typical suburban residential neighborhood of modest-size single family houses, averaging four dwellings per acre and developed during the 1950s. Said neighborhood lies in a valley with gentle hilliness which can cause wide diurnal ranges in temperatures when clear, dry high pressure systems are in control. Otherwise, the low elevation often results in temperatures a degree or two warmer than most surrounding areas.
Continuous daily observations since 1983 have produced these records:
* Highest Temperature: 105 °F on 22 July 2011
* Lowest Temperature: -14 °F on 21 January 1994
* Greatest 24-Hour Precipitation: 7.83" on 7-8 October 2005
* Greatest Snowstorm: 32" on 7-8 January 1996 (learn more)
More Records Climate by Month/Year (table)
The signature picture, which looks at the northern sky above a double-cylinder precipitation gauge, vane, and signs under a perfectly clear sky, has been moved to the Gallery and replaced by live skycam imagery showing approximately the same field of view. Measurements from this gauge, which are not always the same as measurements from the Davis Vantage Pro2 (TM) system located approximately 15 meters to the east, become the precipitation data of record. The vane serves as a spinner decoration. However, the N-S, W-E indicators are within a few azimuth degrees of the true compass directions. Site viewers will be able to see the depth of water in the gauge from current or recent precipitation. In season, a snowboard with graduated stick will be in place right of the signs to provide viewers an approximation of snow accumulation during and shortly after snowfalls.