When it comes to the average St. Patrick's day, in respects to weather, here is what we can expect in Erie...
The average high temperature is 44 degrees, while the average low temperature is 28. The warmest St. Patrick's day ever recorded (74 degrees) was in 1945, and the coldest (10 degrees) was in 1941.
When it comes to precipitation, an average March 17th would pick up 0.3 inches of snow.
Officially, our high for the day was 33 degrees, and our low was 18. We picked up no precipitiation.
While we were dry, and for the most part sunny, our temperatures were around 10 degrees below average.
Ray O'Petelin,
WSEE Storm Team Meteorologist
