Welcome to the Penn State Joel N. Myers Weather Center home page. New features are added periodically and we invite you to make comments and suggestions. Send comments and suggestions to Bill Syrett (wjs1@psu.edu). Thank you. We hope your visit is an enjoyable one!
Mission Statement
The primary goal of the Myers Weather Center Home Page is to provide ready access to local weather data obtained from the official observation station known as State College, Pennsylvania, which is located at the west end of the University Park campus of Penn State. Brief explanatory comments are included that will help with interpretation of the data. There is also a climatic summary of this site and recent summaries of record-breaking weather. Up-to-date high, low and mean temperatures, along with rainfall and snowfall are also presented, along with running totals of degree-days and accumulated precipitation.
We now have the capability to let the user choose a date of interest and get the weather statistics from that date. The entire record of daily observations is now available. Graphical representation of the data, especially long-term data, is included and is being augmented.
Users interested in data from other parts of Pennsylvania should contact the Pennsylvania State Climatologist.
In addition to the data, weather forecasts and local discussions are included for the browser that may simply need (or be curious about) a weather forecast for the local area.
Information about the Weather Data
Daily weather observations are currently taken at 1200 UTC (0700 EST). Thus, for example, data from 8 March 1996 covers the period 0700 EST 7 March to 0700 EST 8 March and data from 12 July 1995 covers the period 0800 EDT (0700 EST) 11 July to 0800 EDT 12 July. Data prior to 1 July 1957 were interpolated to calendar day (EST), with the exception of snowfall data which were collected at 0700 EST the next day.
Data found in the monthly summary table has been interpolated to CALENDAR DAY (midnight to midnight EST).
