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Regional Weather Summary

National Weather Service State College PA

1242 PM EDT Fri Mar 20 2026



Cloudy across the Northwest half of PA for the remaining of the

day with increasing clouds across the Lower Susquehanna Valley and

Southeastern PA. 



Becoming breezy across the Keystone state this first day of 

Spring, that officially started at 10:46 a.m. 



Rain will expand from northwest to southeast this afternoon 

through early tonight before conditions begin to dry out to start 

the weekend. A couple of strong to locally severe thunderstorms 

are possible later this afternoon into the evening across the 

southwest part of the Commonwealth, including the Laurel Highlands.



The first weekend of Spring will feature a nice warmup with

temperatures forecast to climb 10 to 25 degrees above the

historical average by Sunday into the mid 50s to mid 70s. Another

round of rain and a few thunderstorms are expected later Sunday

through Sunday night before much cooler and breezy weather returns

to start next week. 



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