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This is the current conditions weather report for Morgantown. The report was made 48 minutes ago, at 09:53 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 12 miles per hour / 18.5 kilometers per hour with gusts up to 12 miles per hour / 18.5 kilometers per hour from the westnorthwest (290°). The temperature was 19°F / -7°C, with a dew-point at 19°F / -7°C. The temperature felt like 9°F / -13°C. The atmospheric pressure was 29.91 inHg / 1014 hPa. The relative humidity was 68%. The skies were overcast with light snow.

Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia, on the banks of the Monongahela River. Part of the Pittsburgh DMA, Morgantown is the largest city in North-Central West Virginia and is the principal city of and is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat, it is best known as the home both of West Virginia University and of a one-of-a-kind, experimental personal rapid transit system. The city was founded by Zackquill Morgan in 1772.

As of July 2005, the MSA had an estimated population of 114,501. Morgantown itself had a population 26,809 at the 2000 census. (2005 estimate: 28,292)[citation needed] West Virginia University constitutes 913 acres (3.7 km²) of the city and vicinity, and with the fall 2005 enrollment added an additional population of 26,051 students from every state, the District of Columbia, and 89 other nations.

During the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Transportation built an experimental personal rapid transit system in the city, citing the area's variety of seasonal climates and geographic elevations as factors in testing the technology's viability. The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) has been in use since 1975.

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