Winter did not come to play this season! The 2024-2025 winter season has been the coldest winter in Philadelphia in the last ten years. In fact, the average temperature was just 34.6 degrees. At times, the temperatures dropped so low, it was as cold as Alaska in the City of Brotherly Love.
Freezing Philly
With spring still a few weeks away, Philly is in for more cold. Temperatures this week have been well below freezing with strong wind chills, making it feel like 9 to 15 degrees throughout the day thanks to cold northwest winds.
This week’s freezing weather is nothing new.
The city recently saw its coldest temps in two years.
Comparatively, Philly has had well over 20 days of below freezing temps.
And it isn’t over yet.
Thursday another round of snow is expected in our area, although it should be nothing more than a light dusting.
The cold weather hangs around for the rest of the week but temperatures in the 50’s are forecasted for next week, beginning Monday.
It will be a much needed warm-up for a city plagued by the coldest temperatures it has seen in the last decade.
When was the coldest winter in Philly?
Indeed, Philly is feeling the freeze. The 2024-2025 winter season may be the coldest the city has felt in the last ten years, but it isn’t the coldest ever. The coldest winter in Philadelphia was winter 1976-1977 with an average temperature of 28 degrees.
The second coldest winter was in 1962-1963 where the average temperature was just 28.2 degrees.
Although freezing temperatures are the norm this winter season, at least it hasn’t completely frozen over the Delaware River.
Only three times in history has it been so cold to freeze the Delaware River:
- 1740
- 1856
- and 2018
Alas, the dog days of winter are almost behind us and spring is on the horizon.
Hold fast Philly –outdoor rooftop season is almost here!