Fort Ritchie is snow country
Fort Ritchie has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 82°, a January night drops to 21°, and about 33 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. Normal November highs come to 51°, and lows to 34°.
Getting the latest forecast from the National Weather Service…
What stands out about Fort Ritchie’s weather
Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.
Where today sits in Fort Ritchie’s year
Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.
Weather talk
Road reports, first frosts and storm memories from neighbors in Fort Ritchie.
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Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Fort Ritchie itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at South Mtn, PA (10 mi, snow) and Catoctin Mtn Park, MD (4 mi, frost, heat and degree days). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.