March 2025: A look back at last month's weather
Your StormTracker 59 team goes back into the weather files to highlight some of the most impactful weather of the month:
Warmest High Temperature: 79 degrees (March 19th)
Coolest High Temperature: 32 degrees (March 6th)
Coolest Low Temperature: 16 degrees (March 2nd)
Warmest Low Temperature: 58 degrees (March 29th and 30th)
March was primarily an above-average month temperature-wise. Seven of the thirty-one days reached 70 degrees during a month where our average highs are in the 50s. The peak of the warmth culminated on March 19th, when Beckley reached 79 degrees, tying the old daily record. That's just a few degrees off the all-time March high temperature of 85 degrees set on March 28th, 2020.
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For the month, our average temperature in March was 47.3 degrees, which was about 4.4 degrees warmer than average. That's not quite warm enough to reach the top ten warmest March months on record for Beckley, but it's not far off.
March 2025 was a historically dry month in Beckley, ranking as the sixth driest March on record, following the wettest February on record. On average, Beckley receives just over four inches of rain, but March 2025 featured less than half of that total, coming in at 1.65″ of rain. Combined with very warm and at times breezy conditions and we had brush fires pop up in southern West Virginia and Virginia periodically during the month. Not a single day featured a half inch of rain in Beckley during the month of March.
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Wettest Day: 0.48″ (March 5th)
Despite the dry month in March, Beckley is still well above normal for rainfall so far in 2025 due to the historically wet month of February and still above-average precipitation during the month of January.
Snowiest Day: 0.5″ (March 6th)
Monthly Snowfall: 1.0″ (7.9 inches BELOW average)
Snowfall was very limited due to above-average conditions and a dry pattern overall during the month of March. Beckley received only about 12% of its usual snow for the month. That enabled Beckley to fall slightly below average in snowfall for the season after above average snowfall during the first half of the snowy season.
The full moon for March is the Worm Moon, which took place on March 14th. Generally warm and dry conditions led to good viewing opportunities.
In addition, brush fire activity led to a bit of a smoky hue around the moon at times when it was near full.
Launched in 2022, #WeatherTogether is a dedicated community photo album hosted by 59News and StormTracker 59 to allow viewers to submit weather photos directly to us that we can share on all our platforms on-air or online. These photos are also showcased in our web-based photo album on our site for all to see and enjoy! Any photo of interesting weather, storm damage, snowfall, pets playing in puddles or snow and the likes are all welcomed! We hope to use this to showcase the beauty of the two Virginias through the eyes of our viewers and the vastly dynamic weather we see because we think there is no place more beautiful than here.
See for yourself the collection of photos already submitted or submit a few of your own, here.February 2025 Monthly Review
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