Climate change will bring warmer and wetter weather to Philadelphia. Although the increased temperatures aligned with trends, it was also a drier month.
The average December temperature was 45.3°, which was 6.7° above normal. The temperature made it the second warmest December on record since 1872, with the warmest being 2015. Winter is the fastest-warming season in Pennsylvania, according to Climate Matters.
The 1.64 inches of precipitation for December was only 41% of the normal amount compared to data from 1991-2020.
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