June had a little bit of everything in terms of the weather: Hot, cool, dry and wet.
More wet, actually, than dry with 16 of June’s 30 days seeing measurable precipitation at the official National Weather Service site in Berks County at Reading Regional Airport.
In temperatures, the first 90 of the year was very tardy, and after that there was a rare 100-degree day in a June.
Showers and thunderstorms were prowling on many days last month, and the rainfall totals for June from sites across Berks varied widely, from under 5 inches to over 10 inches. Officially at the airport, nearly 6 inches was recorded.
“This June brought zero or minor amounts of rain to most areas the first nine days and allowed much drying from the soggy May,” said Jeffrey R. Stoudt, retired meteorologist and founder of the Berks Area Rainfall Networks. “Then rain became plentiful the remaining 21 days but had character of hit-or-miss downpours from thunderstorms and accounted for much of the variability in total rainfall amounts. However, nearly every locality received at least one downpour by month end.”
On the temperature side, the first official 90-degree day of 2025 didn’t occur until the 19th, much later than the average first day of May 30 in a Berks temperature database in its 128th year.
The average for the month was about normal through the summer solstice, but a strong dominance of heat the final 10 days brought the final average to 74.2 degrees which is 2.6 warmer than normal and just outside of the 10-warmest Junes on record.
There was a six-day heat wave from the 21st through the 26th that contained a 100-degree day on June 25.
It was the fifth 100-degree day in a June in the database. The previous was 101 degrees on June 22, 2024.
Prior to that the others occurred in 1923, 1925 and 1952, with the 1925 event the most surprising, occurring early in the month on June 6.
“Eight of the last 10 days, six consecutive, (last month) heated to at least 90,” Stoudt expounded. “Of the two days that did not reach 90, a high of 68 on the 27th brought a case of weather whiplash as the high the day before (26th) was 96. But heating to the low 90s came two days later after that phenomenal shallow wedge of rain-cooled air eroded. The month’s lowest of 46 on the 2nd is a typical lowest for June and was the only day that cooled below 50.”
Berks County June weather
Temperature: 74.2 degrees
Normal: 71.6 degrees
Precipitation: 5.94 inches
Normal: 4.77 inches
Records
High maximums: 99 degrees on the 23rd (98, 2024) and 100 on the 24th (98, 1908, 1923 and 1943)
High minimum: 76 degrees on the 24th (73, 1909 and 2010)
Rainfall totals from the Berks Area Rainfall Networks (inches):
• Lobachsville, 10.39
• Boyers Junction, 9.53
• Wernersville, 9.42
• Oley Furnace, 9.36
• Pikeville, 8.64
• Henningsville, 8.63
• Bally, 8.62
• Dryville, 8.58
• Oley, 8.54
• Bechtelsville, 7.57
• Shillington, 7.48
• Mohrsville, 7.45
• Lincoln Park, 7.26
• Wyomissing, 7.14
• Vinemont, 7.10
• Reading E, 7.00
• Cornwall Terrace, 6.96
• Jacksonwald, 6.92
• Hamburg, 6.89
• Greenfields, 6.88
• Boyertown, 6.75
• New Morgan, 6.70
• Shartlesville, 6.68
• Topton, 6.65
• Birdsboro, 6.36
• Knauers, 6.28
• Meadow Glen, 6.27
• West Reading, 6.25
• Frystown, 5.93
• Auburn, 5.80
• Morgantown, 5.73
• Strausstown, 5.62
• Bernville, 5.18
• Womelsdorf, 5.13
• Cumru Township building, 5.02
• Quaker Hill, 4.98.
Source: Berkshire mont
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